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Series
Museum publication volume no. 33
Publisher
Published for the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago-and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society-a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a 'new order of the ages' that anticipated the American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch transforms our customary...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Over the past half-century, historians have greatly enriched our understanding of America's past. We now know that homes and workplaces form a part of our history as important as battlefields and the corridors of power. In this new work, Hoffer presents a "sensory history" of early North America, offering a bold new understanding of the role that sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch played in shaping the New World: the choking stench of black powder,...
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