Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America

by John Putnam Demos

Book Overview

In this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian as he unearths--in sometimes unexpected places--fragments of evidence that help us probe the interior lives of people from the faraway past.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013247
• ISBN13: 9780674013247
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"