Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America

by eds. Alan Tully and Robert Olwell

Book Overview

Never truly a "new world" entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and their desire to perpetuate old world traditions or to imitate the charismatic model of the British establishment. In the course of colonial history, these contrasting impulses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421418460
• ISBN13: 9781421418469
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"