ABSTRACT
Like Bailyn, Jack P.Greene is impressed by the regional diversity of British America. In the larger work, of which this essay is a part, Greene explores the same four mainland regions as Bailyn, but also encompasses the Atlantic and Caribbean islands, as well as Ireland. Greene believes that “each of the major regions of the early modern colonial British world quickly developed its own distinctive socioeconomic and cultural configurations.” Nevertheless, also like Bailyn, Greene perceives the emergence of a distinctive American culture out of these several regional cultures. What for Bailyn was inchoate and plastic in 1700 is for Greene considerably more well-defined and fixed by 1750.
