British Colonial America - People and Perspectives

This insightful set of essays reveals the day-to-day lives of the British colonists who laid the foundation for what became the United States. British Colonial America: People and Perspectives shifts the spotlight away from the famous political and religious leaders of the time to focus on colonial residents across the full spectrum of American society from the early-17th to the late-18th century.In narrative chapters filled with biographical sketches, British Colonial America explores the day-to-day world of the religious groups, entrepreneurs, women and children, laborers, farmers, and others who made up the vast majority of the colonial population. Coverage also includes those not afforded citizenship, such as African slaves and Native Americans. It is a revealing examination of life at ground level in colonial America, one that finds the people of that time confronting issues that appear throughout the American experience.>

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• Authors: John A Grigg, John A. (EDT)/ Mancall Grigg
• Assisted by: John Grigg (Editor), John A. Grigg (Editor), Grigg John A. (Editor), Peter C. Mancall (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2008
• EAN: 9781598840254
• ISBN: 978-1-59884-025-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Perspectives in American Socia; Perspectives in American Social History; Perspectives in American Socia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; American History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History of the Americas