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Author Katz, Stanley Nider, editor.

Title Colonial America : essays in politics and social development / edited by Stanley N. Katz and John M. Murrin.

Imprint New York : Knopf, ©1983.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  973.2 K159c 1983    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Third Edition.
Description xv, 596 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents I. Prologue: the contact of cultures -- Demographic catastrophe / J.H. Parry -- The white Indians of colonial America / James Axtell -- The ideology of English colonization : from Ireland to America / Nicholas P. Canny -- II. The first settlements -- From servent to freeholder : status, mobility and property accumulation in seventeenth-century Maryland / Russell R. Menard -- The planter's wife : the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lois G. Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Notes on life in Plymouth colony / John Demos -- Family structure in seventeenth-century Andover, Massachusetts / Philip J. Greven, Jr. -- The world of print and collective mentality in seventeenth-century New England / David D. Hall -- "Tender plants" : Quaker farmers and children in the Delaware Valley, 1681-1735 / Barry J. Levy -- III. Crisis and transition -- Politics and social structure in Virginia / Bernard Bailyn -- Origins of the Southern labor system / Oscar and Mary F. Handlin -- Enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700 / Winthrop D. Jordan -- The Maryland slave population, 1658 to 1730 : a demograohic profile of Blacks in four counties / Russell R. Menard -- The strange career of Francis Nicholson / Stephen S. Webb -- Salem possessed : the social origins of witchcraft / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum -- IV. Eighteenth-century political culture -- The social context of democracy in Massachusetts / Michael Zuckerman -- Between Scylla and Charybdis : James DeLancey and Anglo-American politics in early eighteenth-century New York / Stanley N. Katz -- The small farmer in eighteenth-century Virginia politics / David Alan Williams -- "The harmony we were famous for" : an interpretation of pre-revolutionary South Carolina politics / Robert M. Weir -- Urban wealth and poverty in pre-revolutionary America / Gary B. Nash -- V. Social and religious change in the mid-eighteenth century -- The great awakening in Connecticut / Richard L. Bushman -- The origins of civil millennialism in America : New England clergymen, war with France, and the Revolution / Nathan O. Hatch -- Evangelical revolt : the nature of the Baptists' challenge to the traditional order in Virginia, 1765--1775 / Rhys Isaac -- The legal transformation : the bench and bar of eighteenth-century Massachusetts / John M. Murrin -- Slavery and freedom : the American paradox / Edmund S. Morgan.
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term To 1865
Added Author Murrin, John M.
ISBN 0394330447 (pbk.)
9780394330440 (pbk.)

 
    
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