Description
To join a conversation, one must know what is being said. Writing Early America is a field report on the current state of the historiography on the colonial era--from the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 to the end of the American Revolution around 1784.
Based on a close reading of nearly four hundred articles in leading journals published over the past decade, Trevor Burnard provides an unprecedented analysis of the direction of the field encompassed by the popular hashtag #VastEarlyAmerica. He examines scholarship on the most important areas of current research--Indigenous history, slavery and race, and gender. Burnard also demonstrates how important imperialism has become in providing a framework for colonial American history, especially for new scholarship on the American War of Independence, which historians increasingly see in its context as part of a broader Age of Revolutions.
This is the first book in over thirty years to offer advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars a comprehensive guide to the historiography of early America.
Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 04/14/2023
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780813949208
ISBN10: 0813949203
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)