A companion to colonial America
Companion to Colonial America consists of 23 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. In certain fields, such as politics and religion, the essays cover debates and approaches over the better part of the last century. More recent fields such as migration and gender have a narrower interpretive history, but receive the same comprehensive treatment. Essays on newly emerging fields such as ecology, and a closing summary essay look ahead to the future of Colonial American studies. The contributors are the best in their field and have collaborated to produce an invaluable reference work for American historians, students, and readers of American colonial history
History
1 online resource (xiii, 562 pages) : illustrations
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Pre-contact: the evidence from archaeology / David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith
The origins of transatlantic colonization / Carole Shammas
Ecology / John Brooke
Migration and settlement / Ned Landsman
Empire / Richard R. Johnson
Indian history during the English colonial era / James H. Merrell
African Americans / Philip D. Morgan
Economy / Margaret Newell
Women and gender / Carol Karlsen
Children and parents / Holly Brewer
Class / Greg Nobles
Colonial politics / Alan Tully
Regionalism / Michael Zuckerman
Consumption / Cary Carson
Religion / Marilyn Westerkamp
Secular culture in search of an early American Enlightenment / Darren Staloff
Borderlands / Daniel H. Usner, Jr
Comparisons: the Caribbean / Verene Shepherd and Carleen Payne
Comparisons: New Spain / Robert Ferry
Comparisons: New France / Allan Greer
Comparisons: Atlantic Canada / Peter Pope
Causes of the American revolutions / Sylvia Frey
Postscript: large questions in a very large place / Edward Countryman
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