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British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
La couv. porte : "Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by Stephen Foster |
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Oxford (GB), New York (N.Y.) :
Oxford University Press
, copyright 2013 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XVII- 365 p.) |
| Collection : | The Oxford history of British empire. Companion series |
| Titre de l'ensemble : | The Oxford history of the British Empire |
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| Résumé : | La couv. porte : "Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this or that reordering of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. It has become common place to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melée between "settlers", the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants. The contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades and incorporate its insights. However, the volume advocates a pluralistic approach to the subject generally and attempts to demonstrate that the metropolitan power was of more than secondary importance to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." |
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| Notes : | Notes bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN : | 0-19-920612-0 978-0-19-879465-3 0-19-879465-7 0-19-166274-7 |