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Title British colonial America : people and perspectives / John A. Grigg, editor.| [Gale electronic resource]

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2008.
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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series Perspectives in American social history
Gale eBooks
Perspectives in American social history.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A lost world and a world of loss : Native Americans and British colonists before 1700 / Martha K. Robinson -- "A mean and brutal business" : indentured servitude in early America / Matthew Harris -- Puritan life / Michael S. Carter -- "A loving mother and obedient wife" : white women in colonial America / Kirsten E. Phimister -- Slave life in colonial America / Kathryn S. Koo -- Urban workers / Karen O'Brien -- "A variety of peoples" : the non-English composition of British America / Ian J. Aebel -- Native America, 1700-1775 / Dixie Haggard -- "Great multitudes flocking after him" : the great awakening among common people / John Howard Smith -- The margins of empire : Anglo-American westward migration and settlement in the colonial period / David P. Dewar.
Summary Reveals the day-to-day lives of the British colonists who laid the foundation for what became the United States.
Subject United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
Added Author Grigg, John A., editor.
Gale Group.
Other Form: Original 9781598840254 (DLC) 2008006372
ISBN 9781598840261 (electronic book)
9781598840254 (alk. paper)
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