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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 4: The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763
Richard Hofstadter. America at 1750: A Social
Portrait (1971).
This highly accessible work includes chapters
on indentured servitude, the slave trade, the middle-class world of the colonies,
the Great Awakening, and population growth and immigration patterns.
Bernard Bailyn. Voyagers to the
West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1986).
Bailyn won a Pulitzer Prize for
this survey of the character of, and motives for, emigration from the British
Isles to America during the eighteenth century.
Philip Morgan. Slave Counterpoint:
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Low Country (1998).
This is a major synthesis of historical
research on the differences in work lives, family life, and slave culture in
the tobacco colonies and the rice colonies.
Richard White. The Middle Ground:Indians,
Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991).
A close examination of the encounters between
Indian and European cultures, the political alliances that were formed and broken,
and the exchange of ideas, beliefs, and customs that resulted from the relationship
between Indians and colonizers.
Howard Peckham. The Colonial Wars, 1689-1762
(1964).
This concise history of the colonial wars focuses
on the impact of constant warfare on colonial communities, north and south.
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