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Title The world turned upside-down : the state of eighteenth-century American studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century / edited by Michael V. Kennedy and William G. Shade.

Publication Info. Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ ; : Associated University Presses, [2001]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973.2072 W927W    Check Shelf
Description 336 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue:"Groping to understand": reconstructing early American history / William G. Shade -- The place of the eighteenth century in American agricultural history / Richard L. Bushman -- "Say it! No ideas but things": touching the past through early American technological history / Judith A. McGaw -- "No towns of any consequence"? the lost urban history of the colonial Chesapeake / Christine Daniels -- "Looking into the night": slavery, freedom, and African cultures in America / David Hackett Fischer -- "Between the times": popular religion in eighteenth-century British North America / David D. Hall -- Writing the literary history of eighteenth-century America: a prospect / Philip F. Gura -- Literacy and education in eighteenth-century North America / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis -- "Narcissism of the minor differences": what is at issue and what is at stake in the civic humanism question / Asher Horowitz and Richard K. Matthews -- "What an alarming crisis is this?": early American women and their histories / Carol R. Berkin -- Native American history: perspectives on the eighteenth century / Daniel K. Richter -- Spain's conquest by contract: pacification and the mission system in eastern North America / Amy Turner Bushnell -- Epilogue:"Capitalism and slavery": personal reflections on Eric Williams and the reconstruction of early American history / Russell R. Menard.
Subject United States -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 -- Study and teaching.
United States -- Civilization -- To 1783 -- Study and teaching.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865 -- Study and teaching.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Study and teaching.
Added Author Kennedy, Michael V., 1954-
Shade, William G.
ISBN 0934223629 alkaline paper
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