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Small worlds, large questions : explorations in early American social history, 1600-1850 Darrett B. Rutman with Anita H. Rutman
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HN 57.R795 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rutman, Darrett Bruce.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 316 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994.
- Contents:
- By way of prologue : historians' imperatives, or An empiricist in a Marxist den
- The "new social history" in America
- Community study
- The mirror of Puritan authority
- Children of the fellowship
- Governor Winthrop's garden crop
- People in process : the New Hampshire towns of the eighteenth century
- Magic, christianity, and church in early Virginia
- Of agues and fevers : malaria in the early Chesapeake
- "Now-wives and sons-in-law" : parental death in a seventeenth-century Virginia county
- The genesis of a Chesapeake town
- The village south
- Myths, moralities, and megatheories : the case of the antebellum American south
- Community : a sunny little dream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813915295
- 0813915309 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 30031560
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