Colonial British America : essays in the new history of the early modern era
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Colonial British America : essays in the new history of the early modern era
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984
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Based on papers presented at a conference held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, Aug. 1-7, 1981
Includes bibliographies and index
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ISBN 9780801830549
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In recent years an upsurge of interest in colonial British-American history has transformed the field as much as any other in the English-speaking world. The editors (one American, one British) of this collection of fifteen original essays have brought together a highly representative selection of American, British, and Canadiam scholars, all of whom have significantly contributed to the recent historiographical transformation. The aim has been twofold: to summarize and evaluate the achievement, and to suggest the themes and problems that now demand the attention of historical research in order to indicate the directions that research should take. At the same time, by bringing modern methods to bear on the period, this remarkably comprehensive collection goes far to redefine the field and to make America's colonial past more lively and more intelligible than ever before.
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Preface
Chapter 1. Reconstructing British-American Colonial History: An Introduction
Chapter 2. The Transatlantic Economy
Chapter 3. The Domestic Economy
Chapter 4. Spatial Order: Households in Local Communities and Regions
Chapter 5. Demographic Development and Family Structure
Chapter 6. Servants and Slaves: The Recruitment and Employment of Labor
Chapter 7. Creative Adaptions: Peoples and Cultures
Chapter 8. Social Development
Chapter 9. Wealth and Social Structure
Chapter 10. Value and Society
Chapter 11. Religion and Society: Problems and Reconsiderations
Chapter 12. American High-Style and Vernacular Culstures
Chapter 13. The International and Imperial Context
Chapter 14. Political Development
Chapter 15. The Problem of a Colonial Legal History
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780801830556
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"Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up--part critique, part appreciation--than anything else in print of work done in any field of American history. Nowhere else can we learn so easily and so well what to read about colonial America...A very useful volume of considerable distinction".--William Abbott, editor, "The Papers of George Washington".
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. Reconstructing British-American Colonial History: An Introduction
Chapter 2. The Transatlantic Economy
Chapter 3. The Domestic Economy
Chapter 4. Spatial Order: Households in Local Communities and Regions
Chapter 5. Demographic Development and Family Structure
Chapter 6. Servants and Slaves: The Recruitment and Employment of Labor
Chapter 7. Creative Adaptions: Peoples and Cultures
Chapter 8. Social Development
Chapter 9. Wealth and Social Structure
Chapter 10. Value and Society
Chapter 11. Religion and Society: Problems and Reconsiderations
Chapter 12. American High-Style and Vernacular Culstures
Chapter 13. The International and Imperial Context
Chapter 14. Political Development
Chapter 15. The Problem of a Colonial Legal History
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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