The Social Fabric: American Life from 1607 to 1877

by Cary, John H.; Hartshorne, Thomas L.; Wheeler, Robert Anthony; Weinberg, Julius

• ISBN13: 9780321003034
• ISBN10: 0321003039
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This reader acquaints students with the aspects of ordinary Americans by showing how the "big" and "important" events of the nation were reflected in the everyday lives of ordinary people. These readings highlight the diversity of Americans' experiences based on differences in race, ethnicity, and gender and the way in which those differences have at times led to conflict. Articles new to this edition reflect the latest scholarship on gender, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans.

Table of Contents

Volume I.(Readings that are new to this edition are indicated with an * asterisk)

Colonial Americans

Native Americans and the Environment

From William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

Slaves on the Frontier

From Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

Husbands and Wives

From Lyle Koehler, A Search for Power: The "Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth-Century New England

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