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The world turned upside-down : the state of eighteenth-century American studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century / edited by Michael V. Kennedy and William G. Shade.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- Civilization.
- History.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization--To 1783--Study and teaching.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865--Study and teaching.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Study and teaching--North America.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ ; : Associated University Presses, [2001]
- Contents:
- Prologue:"Groping to understand": reconstructing early American history / William G. Shade
- The place of the eighteenth century in American agricultural history / Richard L. Bushman
- "Say it! No ideas but things": touching the past through early American technological history / Judith A. McGaw
- "No towns of any consequence"? the lost urban history of the colonial Chesapeake / Christine Daniels
- "Looking into the night": slavery, freedom, and African cultures in America / David Hackett Fischer
- "Between the times": popular religion in eighteenth-century British North America / David D. Hall
- Writing the literary history of eighteenth-century America: a prospect / Philip F. Gura
- Literacy and education in eighteenth-century North America / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis
- "Narcissism of the minor differences": what is at issue and what is at stake in the civic humanism question / Asher Horowitz and Richard K. Matthews
- "What an alarming crisis is this?": early American women and their histories / Carol R. Berkin
- Native American history: perspectives on the eighteenth century / Daniel K. Richter
- Spain's conquest by contract: pacification and the mission system in eastern North America / Amy Turner Bushnell
- Epilogue:"Capitalism and slavery": personal reflections on Eric Williams and the reconstruction of early American history / Russell R. Menard.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0934223629
- OCLC:
- 45618342
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