Colonial America – A History to 1763 4e

Name: Colonial America – A History to 1763 4e
Author: Richard (Formerly Queen’s University, Belfast, UK) Middleton

A History to 1763

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Paperback, 622 blz. | Engels

John Wiley & Sons | 4e druk, 2011

ISBN13: 9781405190046

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Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.

Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography
Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re–written and updated chapters on families and women
Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans–Atlantic influences on colonial development
Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies

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ISBN13:9781405190046

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:622

Uitgever:John Wiley & Sons

Druk:4

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List of Figures.
List of Maps.
List of Documents.
Preface to the Fourth Edition.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Old and New Worlds Meet:.
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.
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:.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:.
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.
11. Settler Families and Society.
1 New World Families.
2 Children.
3 Patriarchal Authority.
4 Social Structure: Rank and Class.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?.
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.
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.
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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