Publication

1973 - Vintage Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

73,250 words, Guess

Page Count

293 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Goodreads957063
  • Library of Congress Control Number72008008
  • OCLC Control Number409709
  • Better World Books9780394717951
  • Open LibraryOL5288515M

Classifications

  • DDC309.1/73/026
  • LCCHN57 .H545 1973
  • LCCHN57

Description

Illuminates the nature of political culture in mid-eighteenth-century America, calling attention to immigration, slavery, the middle class, and religion. Bibliogs.

First Sentence

It was growth-growth consistently sustained and eagerly welcomed, growth as a source of grand imperial hopes and calculating private speculation-which was the outstandingly visible fact of mid-eighteenth-century life in the American colonies.

Excerpt

It was growth-growth consistently sustained and eagerly welcomed, growth as a source of grand imperial hopes and calculating private speculation-which was the outstandingly visible fact of mid-eighteenth-century life in the American colonies.

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  • America at 1750Vintage Books1973

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