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The Colonial Era: A Documentary Reader

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ISBN: 978-1-405-15662-2

December 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

240 pages

Description

Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history.

  • Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America
  • Short headnotes introduce each selection
  • Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research
  • Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text
About the Author
Paul G. E. Clemens has taught colonial history at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, for more than thirty years. He is the author of The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore (1980), awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association for the best book on the history of the United States, Canada, or Latin America; and coauthor of Land Use in Early New Jersey (1995).
Features

  • Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America
  • Short headnotes introduce each selection
  • Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research
  • Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text