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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edmund S Morgan |
| ISBN: | 039305554X 9780393055542 0393091562 9780393091564 |
| OCLC Number: | 1502335 |
| Awards: | American Historical Association Albert A. Beveridge Award, 1976. |
| Description: | x, 454 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The promised land. Dreams of liberation -- The lost colony -- Idle Indian and lazy Englishman -- The Jamestown fiasco -- The persistent vision -- Boom -- A new deal. Settling down -- Living with death -- The trouble with tobacco -- A golden fleecing -- The volatile society. The losers -- Discontent -- Rebellion -- Status quo -- Slavery and freedom. Toward slavery -- Toward racism -- Toward populism -- Toward the republic. |
| Responsibility: | Edmund S. Morgan. |
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