Colonial America by Middleton, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright List of Figures List of Maps List of Documents Preface to the Fourth Edition Acknowledgments Part I: Old and New Worlds Meet

Chapter 1: The Peoples of Eastern North America: Societies in Transition

1 America Before Columbus and the Problem of History 2 The Americas in Ancient Times 3 The Eastern Woodlands, 1000–1300 4 Eastern Woodlands Societies in Transition, 1300–1500 5 Earliest Contacts with Europeans

Chapter 2: The Age of European Exploration

1 Western Europe, 1300–1450 2 The Portuguese in Africa 3 Spain Encounters the New World 4 Sixteenth-Century European Competitors 5 England: The Elizabethan Prelude

Part II: The Seventeenth-Century Settlements

Chapter 3: The English Conquer Virginia, 1607–1660

1 Virginia Before the English 2 The Virginia Company: Early Settlement 3 The Charter of Liberties 4 The Massacre of 1622 and Fall of the Company 5 Growth and Consolidation, 1625–1660

Chapter 4: The Conquest Continues: New England, 1620–1660

1 New England Before the English 2 The Pilgrims 3 Massachusetts: A City on the Hill 4 Establishing and Defending Order 5 Challenges from England 6 Stable Societies

Chapter 5: Diverse Colonies: New France, New Netherland, Maryland, and the West Indies

1 New France 2 New Netherland and Delaware: The Dutch and Swedish Beginnings 3 Maryland: A Catholic Proprietary 4 English Colonies in the West Indies

Chapter 6: The Restoration Era

1 The Return of Charles II 2 Mercantilism: The Navigation Laws 3 New York Becomes an English Colony 4 The Carolinas: Early Settlement

Chapter 7: The Later Years of Charles II

1 Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion and Its Aftermath 2 Massachusetts: The Struggle to Remain Self-Governing 3 New Jersey and Pennsylvania: The Beginnings

Chapter 8: James II and the Glorious Revolution

1 The Dominion of New England 2 Massachusetts Reclaims Control 3 New York: Leisler's Rebellion 4 Maryland 5 Aftermath

Chapter 9: The Eras of William and Mary, and Queen Anne

1 William and Mary's Colonial Policy 2 The Salem Witchcraft Trials 3 War on the Northern Frontier, 1689–1713 4 War and Political Change in the Carolinas 5 Proprietary Problems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Part III: The Eighteenth-Century Provinces in a Changing Continent

Chapter 10: The Economy and Labor System in British North America

1 The British Atlantic Economy 2 The Southern Plantation System 3 Northern Farming and Commerce 4 The Mercantilist System 5 Money and Taxation 6 The Standard of Living: Poverty and Prosperity

Chapter 11: Settler Families and Society

1 New World Families 2 Children 3 Patriarchal Authority 4 Social Structure: Rank and Class

Chapter 12: White Women and Gender

1 Gender and the Settler Experience in the Seventeenth Century 2 Regional Variations 3 Gender in a Commercializing Culture: The Eighteenth-Century Refined Lady 4 Gender in a Commercializing Culture: Middling and Working White Women

Chapter 13: British North American Religion, Education, and Culture, 1689–1760

1 Religion 2 Education 3 The Anglicization of Taste 4 Libraries, Literature, and the Press 5 Science and the Arts 6 Popular Culture

Chapter 14: Slavery and the African American Experience, 1689–1760

1 Slavery: An Evolving Institution 2 Slaves' Experiences 3 The African American Family 4 African American Culture 5 Free African Americans 6 Resistance to Slavery

Chapter 15: Expanding Spanish and French Empires in North America

1 Florida 2 New Mexico 3 The Growth of New France 4 The French Upper Country, or Pays d'en Haut 5 Louisiana 6 Texas 7 Significance for the British Colonies

Chapter 16: Native American Societies and Cultures, 1689–1760

1 Native American Societies in the Eighteenth Century 2 The Nations of the Northern Frontier 3 The Nations of the Southern Frontier 4 Adaptation or Decline?

Chapter 17: Immigration and Expansion in British North America, 1714–1750

1 The Germans and Scots-Irish 2 The Founding of Georgia 3 The Urban Frontier

Chapter 18: British North American Institutions of Government

1 The Royal Framework 2 Local Government: Town Meeting and County Court 3 The Provincial Assembly: Crown versus People 4 Parties and Factions in the Age of Walpole 5 Toward a Republican Ideology

Chapter 19: Britain, France, and Spain: The Imperial Contest, 1739–1763

1 The War of Jenkins' Ear 2 The Struggle for the Ohio 3 The Conquest of Canada 4 The War's Consequences

Selected Bibliography Index

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