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  1. Colonial America

    Reich, Jerome R.
    4th ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1998.

  2. Imperatives, behaviors, and identities : essays in early American cultural history

    Greene, Jack P.
    Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1992.

    This work brings together 16 essays in cultural history. Taken together, the essays aim to provide a reassessment of the complex process of cultural adjustment among the settler societies of colonial British and revolutionary America. "Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities" looks at aspects of the formation and development of English, or, after 1707, British-American cultural spaces during the colonial and revolutionary eras. It focuses on the special character of those new and rapidly changing spaces as dependent and derivative entities on the far periphery of the established core culture in England. Stressing the extent to which each of them was the product of a distinctive physical space and set of socio-economic and political circumstances, the work examines some of the ways in which those circumstances affected emerging social priorities and operated to produce cultures that both diverged sharply from that of Britain and which need to be understood and analysed in their own terms. The volume addresses many important themes in American cultural history. These include the ways in which immigrant expectations shaped behaviour and social objectives and provided standards for social evaluation; the role of considerations of place, time and social organisation in the formation and changing character of collective identities; the bearing of inherited social and behavioural standards on the evaluation of self and society; the interaction between social experience and inherited terms of political analysis; the effects of the broad scope of the private sphere upon activities and attitudes towards the public sphere; the relationship between local loyalties and the formation of larger regional and national consciousness during the revolutionary era; and the changing meaning of America for Europe.

  3. Colonial America : an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic history

    Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2006.

    Topics include: African Americans -- Agriculture and extractive industries -- Salem witch trials -- Arts, culture, and intellectual life -- Biographies -- British colonies -- Cities and settlements -- Dutch colonies -- Economy, business, and labor -- European Americans -- Everyday life -- Exploration -- French colonies -- Geography -- Health and medicine -- Military and diplomatic affairs -- Native Americans (American Indians) -- Politics, law, and government -- Religion -- Spanish Colonies -- Women and gender issues -- Transatlantic trade -- Race and ethnicity -- Slave trade.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.

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