Diversity and Unity in Early North America

by Morgan,Phillip

• ISBN13: 9780415087988
• ISBN10: 0415087988
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The essays collected in this reader represent the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America, and suggest ways of synthesizing the vast proliferation of knowledge. Phillip Morgan explores the history of previously neglected groups, and uses methods of historical demography or historical anthropology to yield rich results. As the horizons of scholarship have expanded to encompass the intimate details of everyday life, and the beliefs and ideas of ordinary people, the knowledge gained by these advances are fitted into the broader patterns of interpretation.

Table of Contents

Editor's preface
List of tables and map
General Introduction	p. 1
A Domesday Book for the Periphery	p. 11
Convergence: Development of an American Society, 1720-80	p. 43
"The Customes of Our Countrey": Indians and Colonists in Early America	p. 75
Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America	p. 113
The Plural Origins of American Revivalism	p. 149
Church and Home in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia	p. 178
Martha Ballard and Her Girls: Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Maine	p. 201
"Baubles of Britain": The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century	p. 227
Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonists in America	p. 259
Suggestions for further reading	p. 283
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