| Description |
1 online resource (213 pages) |
| Series |
Rewriting Histories |
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Rewriting histories.
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| Contents |
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- Part I WHOLES AND PARTS: REGIONS AND AMERICAN SOCIETY -- 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- 2: CONVERGENCE: DEVELOPMENT OF AN AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1720-80 CONVERGENCE: DEVELOPMENT OF AN AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1720-80 -- Part II ETHNIC ENCOUNTERS -- 3: "THE CUSTOMES OF OUR COUNTREY": INDIANS AND COLONISTS IN EARLY AMERICA -- 4: TIME, SPACE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY ON BRITISH MAINLAND NORTH AMERICA -- Part III PRIVATE AND PUBLIC WORLDS -- 5 THE PLURAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN REVIVALISM -- 6 CHURCH AND HOME IN MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VIRGINIA -- 7 MARTHA BALLARD AND HER GIRLS: WOMEN'S WORK IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MAINE -- 8: "BAUBLES OF BRITAIN": THE AMERICAN AND CONSUMER REVOLUTIONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- Part IV CONCLUSION -- 9 BENEFICIARIES OF CATASTROPHE: THE ENGLISH COLONISTS IN AMERICA -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING |
| Summary |
Philip Morgan's selection of cutting-edge essays by leading historians represents the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America. The book opens up previously unexplored areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of new methods such as anthropology, and historical demography to the study of early America |
| Notes |
Publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
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Colonies -- America.
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British colonies.
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Civilization.
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Colonies.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
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United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
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America.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203991648 |
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9780203991640 |
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