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Colonial American History
Kirsten Fischer (Ed.)
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Description for Colonial American History
Hardback. This collection of eight essays and 24 supporting documents concerning mainland British North America includes essays about Native Americans, the transatlantic slave trade, regulation of the sexual behaviour of white and black women, and the creation of new religious practices. Editor(s): Fischer, Kirsten; Hinderaker, Eric. Series: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History. Num Pages: 408 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 35. Weight in Grams: 708.
This carefully collected volume of eight essays and 24 supporting documents allows access to the best and latest scholarship about mainland British North America. This book demonstrates how differences in race, ethnicity, gender, and social status were continually negotiated throughout Britain's North American colonies. It includes essays about Native Americans, the transatlantic slave trade, the rise of gentility, regulation of the sexual behavior of both white and black women, and the creation of new religious practices. Overall, Colonial American History reveals that this amalgamation of cultures presented the European colonists, Native Americans and Africans alike with the opportunity - and ... Read more
This carefully collected volume of eight essays and 24 supporting documents allows access to the best and latest scholarship about mainland British North America. This book demonstrates how differences in race, ethnicity, gender, and social status were continually negotiated throughout Britain's North American colonies. It includes essays about Native Americans, the transatlantic slave trade, the rise of gentility, regulation of the sexual behavior of both white and black women, and the creation of new religious practices. Overall, Colonial American History reveals that this amalgamation of cultures presented the European colonists, Native Americans and Africans alike with the opportunity - and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631218531
SKU
V9780631218531
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About Kirsten Fischer (Ed.)
Kirsten Fischer teaches in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Bodies of Evidence: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Early North Carolina(2001). Eric Hinderaker is associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. He is the author of Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley (1997).
Reviews for Colonial American History
"Here we have eight eminently discussible articles, each one matched with three substantial, thoughtfully edited primary sources, and introductory notes that invite rather than inhibit analysis. Who could ask for more? A superb reader." Fred Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder "A deft, highly satisfying collection of original sources and trenchant scholarship that gets to the heart of colonial ... Read more