Colonial America

<p>Now in its sixth edition <em>Colonial America</em> is the most respected and well-known anthology of readings by top scholars in the field of early American history. The collection offers an insightful and critical view of the colonial period and exposes students to the most significant developments in recent American colonial history scholarship. The new edition features 17 new essays emphasizing a comparative approach to colonial worlds with added content on the Atlantic and North American interior. Drawing its material from a greater range of sources than ever before the text also highlights the themes of race gender and family throughout the collection of articles. </p><p><em>Colonial America</em> includes: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>maps of the eighteenth century Atlantic World West Indies and British North American colonies</li> <p> </p> <li>new introductions to key essays from the fifth edition</li> <p> </p> <li>seventeen new essays with contextualizing introductions</li> <p> </p> <li>discussion questions for students</li> <p> </p> <li>recent scholarship on Indian-colonial relations the Atlantic comparative colonialism gender slavery and bound labor and imperial history.</li> </ul><p>With contributions from: Fred Anderson T.H. Breen Anne S. Brown Denver Brunsman Colin G. Calloway Jared Diamond David Eltis Aaron S. Fogleman Alan Gallay David D. Hall April Lee Hatfield Frank Lambert Barry J. Levy Kenneth A. Lockridge Brendan McConville Peter N. Moogk Philip D. Morgan John M. Murrin Jenny Hale Pulsipher Martin H. Quitt Daniel K. Richter Brett Rushforth David J. Silverman Owen Stanwood John K. Thornton Alden T. Vaughan Wendy Anne Warren and David J. Weber </p><p>The sixth edition of <em>Colonial America</em> is the best resource on the market to give students a feel for the newest themes in colonial history and to leave them with a sense of the conversation shared among early American historians.</p><p><strong>Stanley N. Katz</strong> is Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has written widely on political legal and constitutional history and is the Editor in Chief of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History.</p><p><strong>John M. Murrin</strong> is Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. He is co-author of Liberty Equality Power: A History of the American People.</p><p><strong>Douglas Greenberg</strong> is Professor of History and Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. </p><p><strong>David J. Silverman</strong> is Associate Professor of History at The George Washington University. He is the author of Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America.</p><p><strong>Denver Brunsman</strong> is Assistant Professor of History at Wayne State University. He is the co-editor of Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change 1760-1805.</p>