Bøger af David Hackett (Professor of History Fischer

Part of a multi-volume social history of the USA, this book traces four main waves of British immigration to colonial America, and shows how the different folkways of each group of immigrants became the basis of regional differences in dialect, customs, etc.

In a dramatic and colorful narrative of a pivotal moment in American history, we see how the campaign developed in a web of hard choices by many actors on both sides of the Delaware. 91 halftones,15 maps.