Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America

Shannon, Timothy J.

ISBN 10: 0321077105 / ISBN 13: 9780321077103

Published by Pearson, New York, 2003

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Book is clean and tight, no marks inside of any kind. A primary source reader placing American colonial history in a wider Atlantic context.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America
• Publisher: Pearson, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321077105
• ISBN 13: 9780321077103
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • History, Archaeology, Anthropology

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Synopsis

Web/Online Copy: Atlantic Lives is a primary source reader designed for undergraduate courses in Early American and Atlantic World History.

Organized thematically, each chapter features primary source selections that place Early American History in a comparative context with the wider Atlantic World. These selections come from a wide variety of non-traditional sources, including travel narratives from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Features of the book include discussion questions and recommended readings at the end of each chapter as well as maps and illustrations.

From the Back Cover

Offers a comparative context with primary sources presenting America's history from the European arrival to the nineteenth century. Selections come from a wide variety of non-traditional sources, including travel narratives from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Instructors of courses that cover Colonial American or American history in the eras: 1450-1750, 1500-1800, 1400-1800 that would like to use a comparative context, primary source text.