Seventeenth-century America; essays in colonial history ed. by James Morton Smith

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, James Morton.

Contributor:

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.

United States.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States--Church history--To 1775.

Physical Description:

xv, 238 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, [1959]

Contents:

The significance of the seventeenth century / Oscar Handlin

The moral and legal justifications for dispossessing the Indians / Wilcomb E. Washburn

Indian cultural adjustment to European civilization / Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Social origins of some early Americans / Mildred Campbell

Politics and social structure in Virginia / Bernard Bailyn

The anglican parish in Virginia / William H. Seiler

The church in New England society / Emil Oberholzer

The anglican church in restoration colonial policy / Philip S. Haffenden

Seventeenth-century English historians of America / Richard S. Dunn.

Notes:

Based upon original papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., in 1957.

OCLC:

419757