Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the
time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the
establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who
have argued that colonial American societies differed little from
those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all
contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new
worlds being created in America. Rarely considering the high costs
paid by Amerindians and Africans in the construction of those
worlds, they cited the British North American colonies as evidence
that America was for free people a place of exceptional
opportunities for individual betterment and was therefore
fundamentally different from the Old World.
Greene suggests that this concept of American societies as
exceptional was a central component in their emerging identity. The
success of the American Revolution helped subordinate Americans'
long-standing sense of cultural inferiority to a more positive
sense of collective self that sharpened and intensified the concept
of American exceptionalism.
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