Author: Frank Freidel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674375604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: James Ciment
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317474163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3151

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No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the outlines of America's distinctive political culture, economic system, social life, and cultural patterns had begun to emerge. Designed to complement the high school American history curriculum as well as undergraduate survey courses, "Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, and events of the first three hundred years of American history. While it focuses on the thirteen British colonies stretching along the Atlantic, Colonial America sets this history in its larger contexts. Entries also cover Canada, the American Southwest and Mexico, and the Caribbean and Atlantic world directly impacting the history of the thirteen colonies. This encyclopedia explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life in the immediate pre-contact period, early Spanish exploration, and the first settlements by Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists. This monumental five-volume set brings America's colonial heritage vibrantly to life for today's readers. It includes: thematic essays on major issues and topics; detailed A-Z entries on hundreds of people, institutions, events, and ideas; thematic and regional chronologies; hundreds of illustrations; primary documents; and a glossary and multiple indexes.

Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1484

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Author: Michael D. Hattem
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300234961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as "American history." This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past--as many historians have argued--the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Category : Medicine Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick
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Languages : en
Pages : 248

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