Companion to Colonial America
Published on 13. December 2007
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Other digital
576 pages
978-0-470-99849-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"An indispensable survey of a generation of scholarship on early American history. The continent-wide approach is breathtaking - a testimony to the expanding horizons of American historians." Gary B. Nash, University of California Los Angeles "This authoritative and well produced volume provides an overview of the state of play in the ever expanding field of colonial American history. This valuable reference work provides a comprehensive and thought provoking entree into a sophisticated field of historical enquiry." The Journal of the Historical AssociationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1120 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-99849-6 (9780470998496)
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Daniel Vickers
A Companion to Colonial America
E-Book
05/2008
Wiley-Blackwell
€45.99
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Person
Daniel Vickers is Professor of History at the University of California San Diego. He is the author of Farmers and Fisherman: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts (1994).
Content
About the Contributors. Introduction. 1. Pre-Contact: The Evidence from Archaeology. David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith. 2. The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization. Carole Shammas. 3. Ecology. John Brooke. 4. Migration and Settlement. Ned Landsman. 5. Empire. Richard R. Johnson. 6. Indian History During the English Colonial Era. James H. Merrell. 7. African-Americans. Philip D. Morgan. 8. Economy. Margaret Newell. 9. Women and Gender. Carol Karlsen. 10. Generation. Holly Brewer. 11. Class. Greg Nobles. 12. Colonial Politics. Alan Tully. 13. Regionalism. Michael Zuckerman. 14. Consumption. Cary Carson. 15. Religion. Marilyn Westerkamp. 16. Secular Culture in Search of an Early American Enlightenment. Darren Staloff. 17. Borderlands. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. 18. Comparisons: The Caribbean. Verene Shepherd and Carleen Payne. 19. Comparisons: New Spain. Robert Ferry. 20. Comparisons: New France. Allan Greer. 21. Comparisons: Atlantic Canada. Peter Pope. 22. Causes of the American Revolutions. Silvia Frey. 23. Postscript: Large Questions in a Very Large Place. Edward Countryman. Index.