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The first Americans, 1607-1690 / by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, 1879-1966.
- Series:
- History of American life ; v. 2.
- A history of American life ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- États-Unis--Civilisation.
- États-Unis--Mœurs et coutumes.
- Local Subjects:
- États-Unis--Civilisation.
- États-Unis--Mœurs et coutumes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Hartmann, Edward G. (autograph) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 358 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm.
- Manufacture:
- New York : Printed by J. J. Little and Ives Company.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Macmillan Company, [1927]
- Contents:
- A new world makes new men
- Land and labor in the tobacco colonies
- The New England town and its people
- The fall of the wilderness Zion
- A transplanted church
- The invisible world
- The practice of physic
- The rule of conduct
- Man's treatment of man
- The beginnings of an intellectual life
- Planter and Puritan at play
- Homes along the highway
- The progress of a century.
- Notes:
- "Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1927. Reprinted June, 1929. Reprinted May, 1938. Reprinted January, 1940."--T.p. verso.
- Navy cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Illustrated lining papers by Paul Laune.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-338) and index.
- "Critical essay on authorities": p. 317-338.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has autograph of Edward G. Hartmann.
- Frost Collection copy is "January 1940" reprint.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, 1879-1966. First Americans, 1607-1690.
- OCLC:
- 2571273
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