Cultures and identities in colonial British America /
"Never truly a "new world" entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and th...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Anglo-America in the trans-Atlantic world.
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Table of Contents:
- The nature of slavery : environmental disorder and slave agency in colonial South Carolina / S. Max Edelson
- "For want of a social set" : networks and social interaction in the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina, 1725-1775 / Bradford J. Wood
- "Almost an Englishman" : eighteenth-century Anglo-African identities / Daniel C. Littlefield
- Conservation, class, and controversy in early America / Robert M. Weir
- Beyond declension : economic adaptation and the pursuit of export markets in the Massachusetts Bay region, 1630-1700 / James E. McWilliams
- Paternalism and profits : planters and overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825 / James M. Baird
- "The fewnesse of handicraftsmen" : artisan adaptation and innovation in the colonial Chesapeake / Jean B. Russo
- The other "Susquahannah traders" : women and exchange on the Pennsylvania frontier / James H. Merrell
- A death in the morning : the murder of Daniel Parke / Natalie Zacek
- Enjoying and defending charter privileges : corporate status and political culture in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Edward M. Cook, Jr.
- Native Americans, the plan of 1764, and a British empire that never was / Daniel K. Richter
- Between private and public spheres : liberty as cultural property in eighteenth-century British America / Michal Jan Rozbicki.