Establishing Exceptionalism

Contents: Introduction: do the Americas have a comparable colonial history? A general view of the colonial history of the New World, Silvio Zavala The old regime in America: a review of recent interpretations of France in America, John C. Rule Society and economy in the British Caribbean during the 17th and 18th centuries, Jack P. Greene 'I did the best I could for my day': the study of early black history during the second reconstruction 1960 to 1976, Peter H. Wood The historiography of the Dutch in colonial America, Joyce D. Goodfriend The social history of colonial Spanish America: evolution and potential, James Lockhart Brazil: the colonial period, Stuart B. Schwartz Reconstructing British-American colonial history: an introduction, Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole Some thoughts on colonial historians and American Indians, James H. Merrell Interpretive frameworks: the quest for intellectual order in early American history, Jack P. Greene The social and ethnic historiography of colonial Latin America: the last twenty years, John E. Kicza John Francis Bannon and the historiography of the Spanish borderlands: retrospect and prospect, David J. Weber The contact of cultures: perspectives on the Quincentenary, Ida Altman and Reginald D. Butler Index

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