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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Comprehensive and accessible! The Colonial Era: A Documentary Reader offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history. . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. . Part I: Beginnings: . 1. English and African Background. Gregory King's A Scheme of the Income and Expence of the Several Families of England, Calculated for the Year 1688. William Harrison's Description of England, 1577. Gomes Eanes de Zurara Chronicle of the Initial Portuguese Voyages to Sub-Saharan Africa, 1453: Chapter LX. How those Caravels Arrived at the River of Nile, and of the Guineas that They Took; Chapter LXIII. How the Caravels Set Forth from the River, and of the Voyage which They Made. Olaudah Equiano Recounts his Life in Africa before Being Captured by Slave Traders, 1789. 2. Images of the New World. Amerigo Vespucci Discovers America, ca. 1570s. Amerigo Vespucci Describes his First (Third) Voyage to "America," 1505/6. A Native American Warrior, ca. 1590. John Smith, Of the Naturall Inhabitants of Virginia, 1624. Pocahontas in England. John Smith on Pocahontas, 1624. Illustration from John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina, 1709. John Lawson's History of North Carolina, 1709. 3. Native American Lives. The Beginning of the World -- Costanoan California Native American Story. A Dutch View of the Native Americans in the New Netherlands, from a Letter of Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert, ca. 1628. A French Jesuit Missionary Reports on Life Among the Illinois, 1675. Joseph Francis Lafitau, Portrait of Iroquois and Huron Culture, 1724. 4. Borderlands. Dutch--Native American Relations Deteriorate: Kieft's War, 1640--1645. The Natural Wonders of California: Jose de Gálvez's Expedition, 1769--1770, as Recorded by Father (Franciscan) Juan Crespí. Pedro Fages describes California Native Americans, 1775. Natchez War in Louisiana, 1729--1730. 5. Founding Colonies. John Winthrop's A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630. Slave and Servant Codes in the Seventeenth-Century English West Indies: Barbados Laws for Servants (and Slaves), 1652. The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey, 1676/1677: Chapter XVI, Chapter XVII, Chapter XXV. William Penn Purchases Land...
