The Colonial Era: A Documentary Reader (Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405156627 ISBN 13: 9781405156622

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history.

• Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America
• Short headnotes introduce each selection
• Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research
• Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text

About this title

About the Author

Paul G. E. Clemens has taught colonial history at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, for more than thirty years. He is the author of The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore (1980), awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association for the best book on the history of the United States, Canada, or Latin America; and coauthor of Land Use in Early New Jersey (1995).

From the Back Cover

Comprehensive and accessible, The Colonial Era: A Documentary Reader offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history. It opens with the maximum possible breadth, and then narrows the geographical focus in moving from the sixteenth/seventeenth centuries to the eighteenth century. The author pursues thematic breadth as well, recognizing that it is also crucial for understanding colonial America.

Visual images, in the form of fine art, are included, along with photographs of material culture remains, from porcelain plates, to reconstructed colonial interiors, to photographs of colonial houses as they exist today. Such sources help students consider exactly what a "primary source" is, and at what point a modern transformation of that source turns it into a secondary source.

Visual images, in the form of fine art, are included, along with photographs of material culture remains, from porcelain plates, to reconstructed colonial interiors, to photographs of colonial houses as they exist today. Such sources help students consider exactly what a "primary source" is, and at what point a modern transformation of that source turns it into a secondary source.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405156627
• ISBN 13: 9781405156622
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Clemens Paul G. E.