Companion to Colonial America (Innbundet (stive permer))

Daniel Vickers is Professor of History at the University of California San Diego. He is the author of Farmers and Fisherman: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts (1994).

A "Companion to Colonial America" consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits. In certain fields, such as politics and religion, the essays cover debates and approaches over the better part of the last century. More recent fields such as migration and gender have a narrower interpretive history, but receive the same comprehensive treatment. Essays on newly emerging fields such as ecology, and a closing summary essay look ahead to the future of Colonial American studies. The contributors are the best in their field and have collaborated to produce an invaluable reference work for American historians, students, and readers of American colonial history.

About the Contributors.Introduction. 1. Pre-Contact: The Evidence from Archaeology. David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith2. The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization. Carole Shammas3. Ecology. John Brooke4. Migration and Settlement. Ned Landsman5. Empire. Richard R. Johnson6. Indian History During the English Colonial Era. James H. Merrell7. African-Americans. Philip D. Morgan8. Economy. Margaret Newell9. Women and Gender. Carol Karlsen10. Generation. Holly Brewer11. Class. Greg Nobles12. Colonial Politics. Alan Tully13. Regionalism. Michael Zuckerman14. Consumption. Cary Carson15. Religion. Marilyn Westerkamp16. Secular Culture in Search of an Early American Enlightenment. Darren Staloff17. Borderlands. Daniel H. Usner, Jr.18. Comparisons: The Caribbean. Verene Shepherd and Carleen Payne19. Comparisons: New Spain. Robert Ferry20. Comparisons: New France. Allan Greer21. Comparisons: Atlantic Canada. Peter Pope22. Causes of the American Revolutions. Silvia Frey23. Postscript: Large Questions in a Very Large Place. Edward Countryman Index.