Social History, Local Studies and the Institutions of Early America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric G Nellis, Eric Nellis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-346 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-011-03-04 |
| OpenAlex | W1986200457 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Bruce C. Daniels, ed., Town and County: Essavs on the Structure of Local Government in the American Colonies. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1978.279 + xiv pp. Bruce C. Daniels, The Connecticut Town: Growth and Development, 1635-1790. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1979.249 + xii pp. Richard P. Horwitz, Anthropology Toward History: Culture and Work in a 19th-century Maine Town. Middletown, Conn,: Wesleyan Unversity Press, 1978. 197 + xiii pp. The study of the "social history" of colonial America has had a checkered history of its own. As recently as 1965, Jackson Turner Main could remark accurately that "there has been no systematic description of the social structure.. .of colonial society." Yet, despite the truth of Main's comment, there has been a long and often lively tradition of social history in American scholarship. It was at least as old as the 1880's and had grown in volume and frequency over time, influenced to some extent by the social ideas of Progressivism. And the rise of modern sociology had suggested that there might be models for a social history of early America. But as a distinct field of study, the latter remained loosely framed and the scholarship of social history was often idiosyncratic in contrast to the increasing sophist- ication of the social science schools of the twentieth century
American history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Political science · Politics · Progressivism · Scholarship · Social history (medicine · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Anthropology · Classics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
The Social Context of Democracy in Massachusetts
The New York Census of 1737
Families and Farms
Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent
American History
The Social History of Early New England
Social Change and the Meaning of the American Revolution
Land, Population and the Evolution of New England Society 1630-1790
The Middle Colonies in Recent American Historiography
Towns in Societies
Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston
The New Social History and the Search for "Community" in Colonial America
From Puritan to Yankee
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |