Koehler agrees that Norton uses enough evidence from many varying sources to show that the changes that took place were in fact private versus outwardly public, but he claims that she does not pay enough attention to the very diverse colonial populations in her searches for evidence, such as the Irish, Scottish, Germans, Jews, etc. Additionally, Koehler claims that Norton does not pay enough attention to classes and draws too broad a conclusion from the writings of the upper or middling classes of the time and if she had focused solely on those classes her book would have been better for it. In Norton’s defense, it was very likely that attaining written sources from the lower classes or other diverse populations would have been very hard to do considering the era and the lack of education in the lower
Koehler agrees that Norton uses enough evidence from many varying sources to show that the changes that took place were in fact private versus outwardly public, but he claims that she does not pay enough attention to the very diverse colonial populations in her searches for evidence, such as the Irish, Scottish, Germans, Jews, etc. Additionally, Koehler claims that Norton does not pay enough attention to classes and draws too broad a conclusion from the writings of the upper or middling classes of the time and if she had focused solely on those classes her book would have been better for it. In Norton’s defense, it was very likely that attaining written sources from the lower classes or other diverse populations would have been very hard to do considering the era and the lack of education in the lower