Edmund Morgan - The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social histor...

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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

Edmund Morgan

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Kolonialzeit war in Amerika der Testplatz für die neue Sozialgeschichte, die sich auf die gewöhnlichen Tätigkeiten normaler Menschen konzentriert und nicht auf Hochkultur und hohe Politik. Unglücklicherweise hinterlassen gewöhnliche Menschen, fast per Definition, nur schwache Spuren ihrer Existenz.

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