ISBN:
0231119941
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9780231508407
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 991 p)
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- Sources
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources
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United States Sources Race relations
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History
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United States Sources Ethnic relations
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History
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Quelle
Abstract:
All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? Contemporary concerns such as bilingualism, incorporation/assimilation, dual identity, ethnic politics, quotas and affirmative action, residential segregation, and the volume of immigration resonate with a past that has confronted variations of these modern issues. The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, written and compiled by a highly respected team of American historians under the editorship of Ronald Bayor, ill
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Half title; Title; Copyright; Credits; Dedication; Contents ; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Ethnicity in Seventeenth-Century English America, 1600-1700; Documents; A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New-York to Another, Concerning the Troubles which happen'd in That Province in the Time of the late Happy Revolution, 1698; The Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, In the Years 1675 and 1676; Edward Winslow, "Chapter 7," Good Newes from New England, 1624; Peter Schaghen to the Directors of the West India Company, 1626
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Richard Frethorne to His Father and Mother, March 20, April 2 and 3, 1623Powhatan [Wahunsonacock] to John Smith, 1609; Reverend Samuel Smith to Ichabod Smith, January 1698/99; Declaration or Confession of [Roger] Court Crotosse, 1684; "Whereas Hugh Gwyn …," July 9, 1640; John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614; Petition of Jewish Merchants, January 1655; The Case of Maria Negro, 1681; Declaration Against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon, 1676; An Act Defining the Status of Mulatto Bastards, December 1662; Petition of Richard Saltonstall, 1645
Description / Table of Contents:
The Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of Flushing, Long Island, Against the Law Against Quakers and Subsequent Proceedings, January 1, 1658William Bradford Describes His Encounter with Samoset, 1621; Rev. Johannes Megapolensis to the Classis of Amsterdam, March 18, 1655; Statement Showing Wherein Capt. Daniel Brodhead Has Exceeded the Instruction Given by the Honorable Richard Nicols, Governor General, April 25, 1667; Petition of Marylanders, November 20, 1690 and the Response to the Petition by John Coode and Kenelm Cheseldine, December 22, 1690; Benjamin Tompson, New England's Crisis, 1676
Description / Table of Contents:
Vincent Bigot's Report, "Of the Piety and Devotion of the Christian Iroquois," 1677Testimony of Marmaduke Stevenson, 1659; Chapter 2. Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century North America, 1701-1788; Documents; Indian Women of Cabo San Lucas, c. 1746; Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, 1749; The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, c. 1800; Journal of Nicolas Collin, 1746-183 1: Extract of the Most Noteworthy Transactions During My Incumbency as Rector at the Raccoon and Pensneck Congregations, from September 30, 1773
Description / Table of Contents:
Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt, Written by Himself: Excerpts, 1806Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744; List of Different Nations and Tribes of Indians, Early 1700s; J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, "What Is an American?" 1783; Miami Deaths of 1732, Report of Jean-Charles d'Arnaud, 1732; The Independent Reflector, William Livingston on Kings College, 1753; Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia," 1783; "A Gouging Match"; "A Backwoods Ball and Fight," c. 1780s; Rev. Alexander Stewart to Rev. John Waring, 1764; Rev. Samuel Auchmuty to Rev. John Waring, 1761
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Abigail Franks to Naphtali Franks, June 7, 1743
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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