Recent themes in early American history historians in conversation /
| Other Authors: | Yerxa, Donald A., 1950- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Columbia :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2008]
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 152 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series: |
Historians in conversation.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: some thoughts on the present robust and disorderly state of early American history / Donald A. Yerxa
- Disjunctions in early American history / Pauline Maier
- The promise of empire / Edward G. Gray
- Continuity and change in early American studies / Don Higginbotham
- Comments on Pauline Maier's "State of the Field" / Peter S. Onuf
- Political history's demise? / Paul A. Rahe
- An agenda for early American history / Jack N. Rakove
- Rejoinder / Pauline Maier
- Richard Hakluyt's problem / Peter C. Mancall
- Jamestown redivivus: an interview with James Horn / conducted by Randall J. Stephens
- Re-bunking the pilgrims / Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
- What happened to the Puritans? / Thomas S. Kidd
- The great meadow: sustainable husbandry in Colonial concord / Brian Donahue
- The colonial colleges: forging an American political culture / J. David Hoeveler
- Groping for national identity by forging a national cuisine / James E. McWilliams
- Local authority and the origins of the U.S. Constitution / Gordon S. Wood
- An interview with John Ferling / conducted by Joseph S. Lucas
- A world of kings / Brendan McConville
- 1816: a year of transition / C. Edward Skeen.