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• Title; Contents; I
• A Puritan Hero; II
• Peter Stuyvesant's Flag; III
• When Governor Andross Came to Connecticut; IV
• The Struggle Between Nathaniel Bacon and Sir William Berkeley; V
• An Outlaw Chief of Maryland; VI
• In the Days of Witches; VII
• The Attack on the Delaware; VIII
• The Pirates of Charles Town Harbor; IX
• The Founder of Georgia; X
• The Green Mountain Boys and the Yorkers.

Early American history is brought to life in this thrilling collection of tales from the period surrounding the tumultuous birth of the nation. It's a must-read for history buffs, or for students seeking a much more enthralling take on topics like Puritanism, pirates, witchcraft, and slave revolts that are often recounted in a dry, musty manner in textbooks.

• A true history of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Amy Schrager Lang
• The journal of Madam Knight / Sargent Bush
• Some account of the fore part of the life of Elizabeth Ashbrige / Daniel B. Shea
• The travel diary of Elizabeth House Trist : Philadelphia to Natchez, 1783-84 / Annette Kolodny.

• Colonial Settlements and Societies
• Religious Society and Religious Liberty in Early America
• Defending the Charters
• The War for Independence
• A New Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• State versus Federal Authority
• Forging a Nation
• Prelude to War.

The American Republic overcomes that knowledge gap by providing, in a single volume, critical, original documents revealing the character of American discourse on the nature and importance of local government, the purposes of federal union, and the role of religion and tradition in forming America's drive for liberty. These readings, along with explanatory notes to help readers understand the background and context of each document, represent opposite sides of important debates and clarify such concepts as American independence, religious establishment, and slavery. By presenting the perspectives of America's varied traditions, this volume helps students learn how they might judge the strengths and weaknesses of the conflicting visions that have shaped American history. The American Republic is divided into nine sections, each illustrating major philosophical, cultural, and policy positions at issue during crucial eras of American development. Readers will find documentary evidence of the purposes behind European settlement, American response to English acts, the pervasive role of religion in early American public life, and perspectives in the debate over independence.

This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go of it, made friends with the Indians, and celebrated with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Other uptight religious Puritans followed them and the whole place became New England. There were some Dutch down in New York, and sooner or later William Penn and the Quakers came to build the City of Brotherly Love in Pennsylvania, and finally it was 1776 and time to revolt against King George III and become America. That's it. That's the narrative of American colonial history known to one and all. Yet there are 150 years - six or seven generations between Plymouth Plantation and the 1770s - that are virtually unknown in our national consciousness and unaccounted for in our American narrative. Who, what, when, where and why people were motivated to make a two-month crossing on the North Atlantic to carve a life in a largely uncharted, inhospitable wilderness? How and why did they build the varied societies that they did here in the New World colonies? How and why did we become America? America's Forgotten Colonial History tells that story.
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• 1. Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, "Introduction"
• Part I: Spanish Empire-- Spanish Influences
• 2. Alexander Ponsen, "From Monarchy to Empire: Ideologies, Institutions, and the Limits of Spanish Imperial Sovereignty, 1492-1700"
• 3. Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Bradley J. Dixon, "'The Oversight of King Henry VII': Imperial Envy and the Making of British America"
• 4. Bianca Brigidi and James F. Brooks, "Indo-Hispano Borderlands in the Americas: Entanglements, North and South"
• Part II. Unfree Labor
• 5. Abigail L. Swingen, "Labor, Empire, and the State: The English Imperial Experience in the Seventeenth Century"
• 6. Jenny Shaw, "The Early English Caribbean: Conflict, the Census, and Control"
• 7. Justin Roberts, "The Development of Slavery in the British Americas"
• Part III. British Colonial Developments and the Fates of Indigenous Polities
• 8. Neal Salisbury, "Spiritual Giants, Worldly Empires: Indigenous Peoples and New England to the 1680s"
• 9. Wendy Warren, "'Vast and Furious': Understanding an Atlantic New England"
• 10. Ned C. Landsman, "The Middle Colonies: Region, Restoration, and Imperial Integration"
• 11. Daniel K. Richter, "His Own, Their Own: Settler Colonialism, Native Peoples, and the Balance of Power in Eastern North America, 1660-1715"
• 12. Kathleen M. Brown, "The Chesapeake: Putting Maryland on the Map"
• 13. Carla Gardina Pestana, "Protestantism as Ideology in the British Atlantic World"
• 14. Joyce E. Chaplin, "Was Knowledge Power?: Science in the British Atlantic" Part IV: Competition and Imperial Frontiers
• 15. Wim Klooster, "Defying Mercantilism: Dutch Inter-Imperial Trade in the Atlantic World"
• 16. Paul W. Mapp, "Atlantic, Western, and Continental Early America"
• 17. Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis, "Native-European Interactions in North America and the Trade in Furs"
• 18. Elizabeth Ellis, "Dismantling the Dream of 'France's Peru': Indian and African Influences on the Development of Early Colonial Louisiana"
• Part V. Revolutions
• 19. Andrew Shankman and Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, "How to Lose an Empire: British Misperceptions of the Sinews of the Trans-Atlantic System"
• 20. Jane Landers, "The Revolutionary Black Atlantic: From Royalists to Revolutionaries".
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The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the communities, cultures, and colonies that comprised colonial America, with a focus on the processes through which communities were created, destroyed, and recreated that were at the heart of the Atlantic experience. With contributions written by leading scholars from a variety of viewpoints, the book explores key topics such as -- The Spanish, French, and Dutch Atlantic empires -- The role of the indigenous people, as imperial allies, trade partners, and opponents of expansion -- Puritanism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and the role of religion in colonization -- The importance of slavery in the development of the colonial economies -- The evolution of core areas, and their relationship to frontier zones -- The emergence of the English imperial state as a hegemonic world power after 1688 -- Regional developments in colonial North America. Bringing together leading scholars in the field to explain the latest research on Colonial America and its place in the Atlantic World, this is an important reference for all advanced students, researchers, and professionals working in the field of early American history or the age of empires.
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• Natives, 13,000 B.C.-A.D. 1492
• Colonizers, 1400-1800
• New Spain, 1500-1600
• The Spanish frontier, 1530-1700
• Canada and Iroquoia, 1500-1660
• Virginia, 1570-1650
• Chesapeake colonies, 1650-1750
• New England, 1600-1700
• Puritans and Indians, 1600-1700
• The West Indies, 1600-1700
• Carolina, 1670-1760
• Middle colonies, 1600-1700
• Revolutions, 1685-1730
• The Atlantic, 1700-80
• Awakenings, 1700-75
• French America, 1650-1750
• The Great Plains, 1680-1800
• Imperial wars and crisis, 1739-75
• The Pacific, 1760-1820.

AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived. Dropping the usual Anglocentric description of North America's fate, Taylor brilliantly conveys the far more vivid and startling story of the competing interests--Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian--that over the centuries shaped and reshaped both the continent and its 'suburbs' in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It is one of the greatest of all human stories.
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• List of Maps. Preface. Part I: Europeans Encounter Another World:
• 1. The Age of European Exploration: Spain and Portugal. England: The Elizabethan Prelude.
• 2. The Peoples of Eastern North America: The Precontact Background. The Columbian Impact. Eastern North America, Circa
• 1600. Part II: The Seventeenth-Century Settlements:
• 3. The English Arrive: Virginia, 1607-60: The Virginia Company: Early Settlement. The Charter of Liberties. The Massacre of 1622 and Fall of the Company. Growth and Consolidation, 1625-60.
• 4. The Conquest Continues: New England, 1620-60: The Pilgrim Fathers. Massachusetts: A City on the Hill. The Struggle for Orthodoxy. The Commonwealth Secured. Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
• 5. Maryland and New York, 1624-60: Maryland: A Catholic Proprietary. New York and Delaware: The Dutch and Swedish Beginnings.
• 6. The Restoration Era: The Return of Charles II. Mercantilism: The Navigation Years. New York Becomes an English Colony. The Carolinas: Early Settlement.
• 7. The Later Years of Charles II: Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion and Its Aftermath. Massachusetts: The Struggle to Remain Self-governing. New Jersey and Pennsylvania: The Beginnings.
• 8. James II and the Glorious Revolution: The Dominion of New England. Massachusetts Reclaims Control. New York: Leisler's Rebellion. Maryland. Aftermath.
• 9. The Era of William and Anne: William III's Colonial Policy. The Salem Witchcraft Trials. Proprietary Problems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The End of Proprietary Government in the Carolinas. War and the American Colonies, 1689-1713. Part III: The Eighteenth-Century Provinces:
• 10. The Provincial Economy and Labor System: The Southern Plantation System. Northern Farming and Commerce. The Mercantilist System. Money and Taxation. The Standard of Living: Poverty and Prosperity.
• 11. European-American Family and Society: The Family Structure. Children. Social Structure: Rank and Class.
• 12. European-American Women: Old World Legacies: New World Opportunities? Life Cycles. Household Enterprises, Business, and the Professions.
• 13. European-American Religion, Education, and Culture, 1689-1760: Religion. Education. Libraries, Literature, and the Press. Science and the Arts. Popular Culture. Architecture: The Anglicization of Taste.
• 14. African-American Society and Culture, 1689-1760: Coming to America: The Middle Passage. The African-American Family. Work and Culture. White Over Black: The Slave Codes. Free African-Americans.
• 15. American Indian Society and Culture, 1689-1760: The Coastal Reservations. The Nations of the Northern Frontier. The Nations of the Southern Frontier.
• 16. The Institutions of Government: The Royal Framework. Local Government: Town Meeting and Country Court. The Provincial Assembly: Crown Versus People. Parties and Factions in the Age of Walpole. Toward a Republican Ideology.
• 17. Immigration and Expansion, 1714-50: The Germans and Scots-Irish. The Founding of Georgia. The Urban Frontier.
• 18. Imperial Neighbors: Spain and France in Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana: Florida. New Mexico. Texas. Louisiana.
• 19. Britain, France, and Spain: The Imperial Contest, 1739-60: The War of Jenkins'Ear. The Struggle for the Ohio. The Conquest of Canada. Part IV: The Path To Independence:
• 20. The Rights of British America, 1760-66: The Empire in
• 1760. The Grenville Ministry and Imperial Reform. The American Response: The Rights of British Subjects Internal Conflict.
• 21. Revolution and Independence, 1767-76: The Struggle Renewed: The Townshend Duties. Interlude, 1770-73. The Intolerable Acts. War and Independence. Select Bibliography. Index.
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The thirteen North American colonies established by Great Britain eventually formed the nucleus of the United States. This outstanding book describes the history of these colonies, both individually and collectively. Since its first publication in 1992 it has become the established textbook for students of this period in American history. The third edition, revised throughout and substantially expanded, now includes a chapter on the Spanish in Florida, New Mexico, and Texas, together with an account of the French settlements in Louisiana. Accompanied by maps, contemporary illustrations, chronologies, documents, and a fully updated and expanded bibliography, this comprehensive and readable history of the colonial period offers a fascinating analysis of the evolution of a new and distinctive society.
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• Part 1 The 17th century settlements introduction - the age of exploration: Virginia, 1607-1660-- New England, 1607-1660-- Maryland and New York, 1624-1660-- the restoration era-- the later years of Charles Ii-- James II and the glorious revolution-- the era of William and Anne.
• Part 2 The 18th century provinces: the provincial economy and labour system-- European-American family and society-- women-- religion, education and culture-- African-American society and culture-- the American-Indians-- the institutions of government-- immigration and expansion 1714-1750-- Britain, France and Spain - the imperial contest, 1714-1760. Epilogue - the colonial period and the revolution.
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This is a single-volume narrative history of the 13 North American British colonies which eventually formed the nucleus of the United States. The author covers the entire period from foundation and the first settlement of the Pilgrim fathers to the colonies' emergence in the 18th century as mature provinces with advanced economies and distinct cultures. In addition to the narrative chapters the author also discusses at length various important and recurring themes, notably the relationship between the settlers and the native Americans, the changing position and role of women, the beginnings of slavery, and the evolution of political and social structures. Arguing that the War of Independence was by no means the inevitable result of colonial ambitions, Richard Middleton provides a comprehensive history of the colonial period which shows it to be much more than simply the prologue to independence. Each chapter is prefaced by a chronology and is illustrated by maps and contemporary paintings and etchings. There is a substantial section of annotated further reading.
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A history of the American colonies from their founding to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
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