Description
Book Synopsis"Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up-part critique, part appreciation-than anything else in print of work done in any field of American history. Nowhere else can we learn so easily and so well what to read about colonial America...A very useful volume of considerable distinction".-William Abbott, editor, "The Papers of George Washington".
Trade ReviewColonial British America is a tour de force... It both summarizes and advances our understanding of early modern British America. -- E. Wayne Carp Journal of Southern History The study of colonial British America has made enormous progress in recent decades. Many of those who have contributed substantially to this advance here assess the changes for which they can claim responsibility, and no major historian escapes mention and discussion. -- Peter Marshall Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsList of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. Reconstructing British-American Colonial History: An Introduction
Chapter 2. The Transatlantic Economy
Chapter 3. The Domestic Economy
Chapter 4. Spatial Order: Households in Local Communities and Regions
Chapter 5. Demographic Development and Family Structure
Chapter 6. Servants and Slaves: The Recruitment and Employment of Labor
Chapter 7. Creative Adaptions: Peoples and Cultures
Chapter 8. Social Development
Chapter 9. Wealth and Social Structure
Chapter 10. Value and Society
Chapter 11. Religion and Society: Problems and Reconsiderations
Chapter 12. American High-Style and Vernacular Culstures
Chapter 13. The International and Imperial Context
Chapter 14. Political Development
Chapter 15. The Problem of a Colonial Legal History
Notes on the Contributors
Index
