Excerpt from A History of the United States, Vol. 3I am well aware that there is a growing desire on the part of many Americans of culture for information con cerning the social and economic history of their ancestors. This knowledge has not been without effect upon the chapters herewith submitted. If any reader of this book wants a more minute study of domestic, religious, and industrial life in the first half of the eighteenth century than is here given, he will find, in the bibliographical appendix at the end of the volume, references to some of the best of the numerous works treating specifically of that phase of the history of the period now under con sideration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.