British colonial America
Subtitle: people and perspectives
By: John A. Grigg, editor.
Contributors: Grigg, John A.
Series: Perspectives in American social history
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598840254
Subjects: United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: A lost world and a world of loss : Native Americans and British colonists before 1700 / Martha Robinson Squanto; title: "A mean and brutal business" : indentured servitude in early America / Matthew Harris; title: Puritan life / Michael S. Carter; title: "A loving mother and obedient wife" : white women in colonial America / Kirsten E. Phimister; title: Slave life in colonial America / Kathryn S. Koo; title: Urban workers / Karen O'Brien; title: "A variety of peoples" : the non-English composition of British America / Ian J. Aebel; title: Native America, 1700-1775 / Dixie Haggard; title: "Great multitudes flocking after him" : the great awakening among common people / John Howard Smith; title: The margins of empire : Anglo-American westward migration and settlement in the colonial period / David P. Dewar; title: Primary documents.