| Sumario: | “[Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World is] destined to become a standard text in classes on Atlantic history, offering a wide variety of approaches to class analysis, geographically ranging from Scotland to the West Indies, with stops in Africa and Native America, besides port cities like Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Perhaps the best one can hope for in a volume like this, originally drawn from conference presentations, is that they will have a collective power and unity which summarizes recent scholarship, raises new questions, and suggests fresh research agendas. Impressively, the offerings inside provide all this – and even more. . . . [R]ather than a series of complete and discrete chapters which often leads in collection of edited essays like this one to a lack of cohesion, the careful linkages each author makes provides for a unified presentation which strengthens both each individual chapter and the book's overall impact.”
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