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A companion to colonial America / edited by Daniel Vickers.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to American history.
- Blackwell companions to American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (578 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits. Coverage includes politics, religion, migration, gender, ecology, and many others.
- Contents:
- Pre-contact : the evidence from archaeology / David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith
- The origins of transatlantic colonization / Carole Shammas
- Ecology / John Brooke
- Migration and settlement / Ned Landsman
- Empire / Richard R. Johnson
- Indian history during the English Colonial era / James H. Merrell
- African Americans / Philip D. Morgan
- Economy / Margaret Newell
- Women and gender / Carol Karlsen
- Children and parents / Holly Brewer
- Class / Greg Nobles
- Colonial politics / Alan Tully
- Regionalism / Michael Zuckerman
- Consumption / Cary Carson
- Religion / Marilyn Westerkamp
- Secular culture in search of an early American enlightenment / Darren Staloff
- Borderlands / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
- Comparisons : the Caribbean / Verene Shepherd and Carleen Payne
- Comparisons : New Spain / Robert Ferry
- Comparisons : New France / Allan Greer
- Comparisons : Atlantic Canada / Peter Pope
- Causes of American revolutions / Sylvia Frey
- Postscripts : large questions in a very large place / Edward Countryman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613826886
- 9786610284313
- 9781780341552
- 1780341555
- 9781280284311
- 1280284315
- 9780470998496
- 0470998490
- 9780470700891
- 0470700890
- 9780585467177
- 058546717X
- 9781283514439
- 1283514435
- 9780470998489
- 0470998482
- 9781405165693
- 1405165693
- OCLC:
- 437065600
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