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Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tully, Alan, author.
- Series:
- Anglo-America in the trans-Atlantic world.
- Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--18th century.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The entire series, "Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World,engages the major organizing themes of the subject through a collection of high-level, debate-inspiring essays, inviting readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Atlantic experience shaped both American societies and the Atlantic world itself.
- Contents:
- The nature of slavery: environmental disorder and slave agency in colonial South Carolina / S. Max Edelson
- "For want of a social set": networks and social interaction in the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina, 1725-1775 / Bradford J. Wood
- "Almost an Englishman": eighteenth-century Anglo-African identities / Daniel C. Littlefield
- Conservation, class, and controversy in early America / Robert M. Weir
- Beyond declension: economic adaptation and the pursuit of export markers in the Massachusetts Bay region, 1630-1700 / James E. McWilliams
- Paternalism and profits: planters and overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825 / James M. Baird
- "The fewnesse of handicraftsmen": artisan adapation and innovation in the colonial Chesapeake / Jean B. Russo
- The other "Sesquahannah traders": women and exchange on the Pennsylvania frontier / James H. Marrell
- A death in the morning: the murder of Daniel Parke / Natalie Zacek
- Enjoying and defending charter privileges: corporate status and political culture in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Edward M. Cook, Jr.
- Native Americans, the plan of 1764, and a British empire that never was / Daniel K. Richter
- Between private and public spheres: liberty as cultural property in eighteenth-century British America / Michal Jan Rozbicki.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1916-5
- OCLC:
- 941696080
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