Publisher's Synopsis
At the beginning of the 18th century, for the most part, the American colonies were a vast wilderness. Scattered along the Atlantic coast were small, primitive towns and villages where life was precarious at best.;This book describes the particulars of everyday life, enhanced by quotations from letters, journals and books of the period, and tells the individual stories of actual colonists.;Among the topics discussed are: changes in family life, the importance of farming, the growth of towns, class structure and ethnicity, and how the colonists developed a sense of optimism and self-assurance, which led to a rising tide of national identity that culminated in the American Revolution. Stephanie Wolf is the author of Urban Village".
