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Small worlds, large questions : explorations in early American social history, 1600-1850

Title
Small worlds, large questions : explorations in early American social history, 1600-1850 / Darrett B. Rutman with Anita H. Rutman.
Author
Rutman, Darrett Bruce.
Publication
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994.

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Additional Authors
Rutman, Anita H.
Description
xiv, 316 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Subject
  • United States > Social conditions > To 1865
  • Social conditions History, 1607 - 1845
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
By way of prologue : historians' imperatives, or An empiricist in a Marxist den -- The "new social history" in America -- Community study -- The mirror of Puritan authority -- Children of the fellowship -- Governor Winthrop's garden crop -- People in process : the New Hampshire towns of the eighteenth century -- Magic, christianity, and church in early Virginia -- Of agues and fevers : malaria in the early Chesapeake -- "Now-wives and sons-in-law" : parental death in a seventeenth-century Virginia county -- The genesis of a Chesapeake town -- The village south -- Myths, moralities, and megatheories : the case of the antebellum American south -- Community : a sunny little dream.
Call Number
IID 96-5680
ISBN
  • 0813915295
  • 0813915309 (pbk.)
LCCN
94007440
OCLC
30031560
Author
Rutman, Darrett Bruce.
Title
Small worlds, large questions : explorations in early American social history, 1600-1850 / Darrett B. Rutman with Anita H. Rutman.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indexed Term
Social conditions History, 1607 - 1845
United States
Added Author
Rutman, Anita H.
Research Call Number
IID 96-5680
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