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Chargement... Colonial America in an Atlantic World (2nd Edition) (édition 2016)par T. H. Breen (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book is a text book, with the virtues and vices often associated with that category. On the plus side, is offers a comprehensive review of developments in North America prior to the American Revolution -- a wide canvas indeed. It is reasonably balanced, giving the histories of native Americans and of black slave -- both highly diverse groups -- an equal weight with that of the European settlers. And it attempts to put colonial history in the context of a wider world, a useful feature. But there are minuses too. The canvas is so wide that any overall sense of direction disappears in the detail, and the writing is pedestrian. Given the paucity of broad-focus books on this period (Oxford History of the United States, where is your first volume?) I'll push the rating up to a four, from the three I would have given had there been more alternatives. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"The second edition of Colonial America in an Atlantic World, like the first, responds to a growing interest among teachers and students in a broad and exciting field commonly known as Atlantic History. The approach greatly expands the human and physical boundaries of the subject, which once only looked at white settlers organizing new forms of religion and government. This traditional perspective left too many people out of the story. We have, therefore, tried to present the history of Colonial America in terms of dynamic interaction among the peoples of four continents over several centuries. The world in which these diverse peoples fought, traded, befriended, allied, betrayed one another, made love, married, and bore children was an extraordinarily complex and fluid multiplicity of communities, a vast region in which nations remained in constant flux from fifteenth century through the end of the eighteenth and beyond"--Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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