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As Jack Greene has noted in a recent essay, the field of early American history is being swept by a search for synthesis. Three large volumes by David Fischer, D. W. Meinig, and Bernard Bailyn have presented broad interpretations of North American colonial development in the context of an Atlantic world.' Alongside these, Greene appropriately sets his own Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988), a work slimmer in size but as large in content. These books draw together the threads of numerous specialized studies, particularly in the field of social history, to present syntheses built around such themes as migration, regional development, the interplay of core and periphery, and the transmission of European folkways. Greene's perception of this quest, and his leadership of it, exemplify his acute sensitivity to the currents of historical study. No other modern scholar of early America has done more to def
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As Jack Greene has noted in a recent essay, the field of early American history is being swept by a search for synthesis. Three large volumes by David Fischer, D. W. Meinig, and Bernard Bailyn have presented broad interpretations of North American colonial development in the context of an Atlantic world.' Alongside these, Greene appropriately sets his own Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988), a work slimmer in size but as large in content. These books draw together the threads of numerous specialized studies, particularly in the field of social history, to present syntheses built around such themes as migration, regional development, the interplay of core and periphery, and the transmission of European folkways. Greene's perception of this quest, and his leadership of it, exemplify his acute sensitivity to the currents of historical study. No other modern scholar of early America has done more to def
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