Diversity and Unity in Early North America

ISBN-13: 9780415087995 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 296 str.

Phillip Morgan; Philip D. Morgan

Opis

Philip Morgan's selection of essays by leading historians, represents the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America. The book opens up areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of methods such as anthropology and historical demography to the study of early America. By fitting these approaches into broader patterns of interpretation, the essays suggest ways of integrating these new findings and synthesizing the vast proliferation of recent research to provide students with a more coherent vision of colonial America.

Spis treści

Introduction Philip D. Morgan I. Wholes and Parts: Regions and American Society A Domesday Book for the Periphery Bernard Bailyn Convergence: Development of an American Society, 1720-1780 Jack P. Greene II. Ethnic Encounters `The Customes of our Countrey': Indians and Colonists in Early America James H. Merrell Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America Ira Berlin III. Private and Public Worlds The Plural Origins of American Revivalism Jon Butler Church and Home in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia Rhys Isaac Martha Ballard and Her Girls: Women's Work in Eighteenth Century Maine Laurel Thatcher Ulrich `Baubles of Britain': The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century T.H. Breen Conclusion Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonists in America John M. Murrin

O autorze

Phillip Morgan