Diversity and Unity in Early North America

Diversity and Unity in Early North America
  • Author: Phillip Morgan
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781134881628
  • Category: History
  • Page: 296
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Philip Morgan's selection of cutting-edge essays by leading historians represents the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America. The book opens up previously unexplored areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of new methods such as anthropology, and historical demography to the study of early America.

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