Learning to read and write in Colonial America
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Record details
- ISBN: 1558494863
- ISBN: 9781558494862
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Physical Description:
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xiii, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-460) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Literacy and the law in orthodox New England -- Literacy and the Indians of Massachusetts Bay -- Books read by children at home and at school -- Death and literacy in two devout Boston families -- The literacy mission of the S.P.G -- Literacy and the Mohawks -- Schools, schoolteachers, and schoolchildren -- The rise of the spelling book -- Literacy instruction and the enslaved -- Writing instruction --The new world of children's books -- Literacy in three families of the 1770s. |
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| Government and Heritage Library | 302.2244 M734l (Text) | 33091006777155 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
