A Companion to Colonial America

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Daniel Vickers
John Wiley & Sons, 15 avr. 2008 - 580 pages

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.
 

Table des matières

1 PreContact The Evidence from Archaeology
1
2 The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization
25
3 Ecology
44
4 Migration and Settlement
76
5 Empire
99
6 Indian History During the English Colonial Era
118
7 African Americans
138
8 Economy
172
14 Consumption
334
15 Religion
366
16 Secular Culture in Search of an Early American Enlightenment
389
17 Borderlands
408
18 Comparisons The Caribbean
425
19 Comparisons New Spain
451
20 Comparisons New France
469
21 Comparisons Atlantic Canada
489

9 Women and Gender
194
10 Children and Parents
236
11 Class
259
12 Colonial Politics
288
13 Regionalism
311
22 Causes of the American Revolutions
508
23 Postscript Large Questions in a Very Large Place
530
Index
541
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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

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).

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