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This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. It also honors the scholarship of Gary Nash, who has contributed much of the leading work in this field. The 15 contributors, who constitute a Who's Who of those who have made important discoveries and reinterpret of this issue, include, Mary Beth Norton on women's legal inequality in early America; Neal Salisbury on Puritan missionaries and Native Americans; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on elite and poor women's work in early Boston; Peter Wood and Philip Morgan on early American slavery, as well as Gary Nash himself writing on Indian/white history. The book will be immediately considered a vital contribution to American self-understanding and to historical analysis.

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• List of Illustrations(p. ix)
• Abbreviations Used in the Notes(p. xi)
• Introduction: Inequality in Early America(p. 1)
• Sustaining Inequality
• "Either Married or to Bee Married": Women's Legal Inequality in Early America(p. 25)
• "Riches and Honour Were Rejected by Them as Loathsome Vomit": The Fear of Leveling in New England(p. 46)
• Partial Revival: The Limits of the Great Awakening in Boston, Massachusetts, 1740-1742(p. 67)
• Inequality in the Here and the Hereafter: Religion and the Construction of Race and Gender in the Postrevolutionary South(p. 87)
• Resistance
• "I Loved the Place of My Dwelling": Puritan Missionaries and Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century Southern New England(p. 111)
• Black Women Who Stole Themselves in Eighteenth-Century America(p. 134)
• African Spirituality and Cultural Practice in Colonial New York, 1700-1770(p. 160)
• Sheep in the Parlor, Wheels on the Common: Pastoralism and Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Boston(p. 182)
• Conceptualizing Inequality
• A Class Society? The Nature of Inequality in Early America(p. 203)
• Slave Labor Camps in Early America: Overcoming Denial and Discovering the Gulag(p. 222)
• Rethinking Early American Slavery(p. 239)
• The Concept of Inevitability in the History of European--Indian Relations(p. 267)
• Afterword
• Reminiscences of Gary B. Nash(p. 295)
• Contributors(p. 307)
• Index(p. 311)

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These essays by 15 historians of early America, edited by Pestana (history, Ohio State Univ.) and Salinger (history, Univ. of California, Riverside), examine the concept and the reality of inequality in early American society, covering religion, material culture, slavery, and gender. The essays show how inequality was both resisted and defended at the time. They also honor the outstanding scholarship of Gary Nash in this field. It was Nash's book, Red, White, and Black (Hill & Wang, 1989), that led to a major reassessment of Colonial American history. These essays are, in effect, the result of his insights into the nature and impact of inequality in Colonial and Revolutionary America. The writing is dense, but the contents make an outstanding contribution to the study of early American history. Recommended for American history collections in academic libraries.ÄHarry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Carla Gardina Pestana is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University
Sharon V. Salinger is Associate Professor of History at University of California, Riverside