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As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans

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In 1700, ten sparsely settled colonies clung precariously to the Atlantic coast of the vast American continent, each far more firmly attached to the Old World by ties of politics, economy, and culture than they were to each other. By 1800, sixteen states, united by a common government, were poised exploit the seemingly endless resources of a new and independent nation. Throughout this century of enormous changes and challenges, one factor had remained constant: no single description captured the majority of the new country ...

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As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans 2000, University of Arkansas Press

ISBN-13: 9781557285997

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