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Race, class, and politics : essays on American colonial and revolutionary society / Gary B. Nash ; with a foreword by Richard S. Dunn.

Title
Race, class, and politics : essays on American colonial and revolutionary society / Gary B. Nash ; with a foreword by Richard S. Dunn.
Author
Nash, Gary B.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1986.

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Additional Authors
Dunn, Richard S.
Description
xxii, 370 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1600-1865
  • Sozialgeschichte 1700-1820
  • To 1865
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States > Social conditions > To 1865
  • United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • United States > History > Social aspects > Revolution, 1775-1783
  • United States > Politics and government > To 1775
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
[1.] Shaping a triracial society: The social development of colonial America -- The image of the Indian in the Southern colonial mind -- The framing of government in Pennsylvania: ideas in contact with reality -- Slaves and slaveowners in colonial Philadelphia -- The failure of female factory labor in colonial Boston -- The transformation of urban politics, 1700-1764 -- [2.] Reshaping society in the revolutionary era: Urban wealth and poverty in prerrevolutionary America -- Social change and the growth of prerrevolutionary urban radicalism -- Artisans and politics in eighteenth-century Philadelphia -- Thomas Peters: millwright, soldier, and deliverer -- Forging freedom: the emancipation experience in the northern seaports, 1775-1820 -- "To arise out of the dust": Absalom Jones and the African Church of Philadelphia, 1785-95.
ISBN
  • 0252012119 (alk. paper)
  • 0252013131 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^85024489^
OCLC
  • 12664011
  • SCSB-9976559
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library