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America's nation-time, 1607-1789 / Benjamin W. Labaree.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E188 .L28 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Labaree, Benjamin W., 1927-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789.
- Physical Description:
- 259 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1976
- Summary:
- "A history of those men and women-English, European, and African- who transformed America from a geographical expression into a new nation." - From book cover.
- Contents:
- Part I: The seventeenth century
- A new world
- First settlements
- Seventeenth-century America
- Part II: The eighteenth century
- Government and politics
- Economic development
- Colonial society
- American culture
- England and America at mid-century
- Part III: The revolutionary era
- A decade of crisis, 1763-73
- The road to revolution, 1773-76
- War and peace, 1775-83
- The new nation, 1776-89
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- In memory of George Fisher
- ISBN:
- 0393008215
- 9780393008210
- OCLC:
- 2202611
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