Colonial America in an Atlantic World

by Breen, T. H.; Hall, Timothy D.

• ISBN13: 9780321061812
• ISBN10: 0321061810
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-06
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The book presents the Atlantic coast history as a story of interaction and adaptation among the peoples of the four continents, and discusses the variety of social, political, environmental, and cultural processes set in motion by European exploration and settlement.Beginning with a chapter on the pre-Columbian background of Europe, Africa, and North and South America, this lively narrative traces the history of colonial America to 1763. Covering British, Spanish, French, and Dutch colonization, the book examines colonial development in the North American colonies along the Atlantic coast and in the borderlands, the North American interior, and the Caribbean.

Table of Contents

Maps	viii
Preface	ix
Part I Three Worlds Meet	1	(80)
Chapter 1 On the Eve of Conquest
Worlds Old and New	3	(26)
NATIVE AMERICANS BEFORE CONQUEST	5	(8)
AFRICA: DIVERSE PEOPLES AND COMPLEX HISTORIES	13	(5)
EUROPE ON THE EVE OF CONQUEST	18	(8)
CONVERGING HORIZONS	26	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	27	(2)
Chapter 2 Many Voices
Patterns of New World Encounter	29	(80)
FIRST VENTURES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC	31	(5)
CONQUISTADORES: A MIXED LEGEND	36	(5)
EARLY NORTHERN EUROPEAN EXPLORATION	41	(3)
THE INDIANS' NEW WORLD	44	(7)
A WORLD TRANSFORMED	51	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	52	(2)
Chapter 3 Creating a Militant Atlantic World, 1500-1625	54	(27)
THE IBERIAN ATLANTIC	55	(5)
AFRICANS IN THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC	60	(5)
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BEGINNINGS	65	(2)
THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN CHALLENGE	67	(6)
THE EMERGING ENGLISH ATLANTIC	73	(5)
A BRAVE NEW WORLD	78	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	79	(2)
Part II The Contest for Seventeenth-Century Settlement	81	(162)
Chapter 4 Smoke and Greed on the Tobacco Coast, 1607-1660	83	(26)
A NATIVE AMERICAN EMPIRE	84	(2)
THE ILL-FATED SETILEMENT AT JAMESTOWN	86	(10)
MARYLAND: A CATHOLIC REFUGE	96	(3)
THE PLANTERS' PERSPECTIVE	99	(6)
ESCAPING THE PAST	105	(2)
RECOMMENDED READING	107	(2)
Chapter 5 Cities on a Hill
Bible Commonwealths in New England, 1620-1660	109	(28)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES	110	(2)
PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS	112	(2)
A "NEW" ENGLAND IN AMERICA	114	(10)
THE PURITAN ORDER IN NEW ENGLAND	124	(7)
A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT	131	(3)
THE FIRST GENERATION'S LEGACY	134	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	135	(2)
Chapter 6 Sugar, Slaves, and Profits
The Beginnings of the British Caribbean	137	(27)
"NO PEACE BEYOND THE LINE"	140	(9)
CULTIVATING SWEETNESS	149	(4)
SOCIETY IN THE ENGLISH WEST INDIES	153	(8)
SUGAR, SLAVES, AND THE ATLANTIC ORDER	161	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	162	(2)
Chapter 7 From Commonwealth to Restoration
The Quest for a Commercial Empire	164	(27)
COLONIAL RESPONSE TO CIVIL WAR	165	(2)
TRADE RIVALRIES	167	(5)
CROMWELL'S QUEST FOR DOMINION	172	(2)
RESTORATION AND THE COMMERCIAL IMPULSE	174	(5)
WAR, REBELLION, AND THE COVENANT CHAIN	179	(9)
AN UNFINISHED AGENDA	188	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	189	(2)
Chapter 8 Toleration, Commerce, and Settlement
The Restoration Colonies	191	(25)
DIVERSITY IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES	192	(8)
QUAKERS IN AMERICA	200	(6)
PLANTING THE CAROLINAS	206	(7)
AN EMPIRE OF CONTRADICTIONS	213	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	214	(2)
Chapter 9 Glorious Revolution and International Realignment	216	(27)
JAMES II AND THE AMERICAN COLONIES	218	(5)
THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA	223	(7)
AN AGE OF ATLANTIC WARS	230	(5)
A COMMERCIAL EMPIRE TAKES SHAPE	235	(3)
COMMON EXPERIENCES, SEPARATE CULTURES	238	(2)
RECOMMENDED READING	240	(3)
Part III Provinces in a Contested Empire: The Eighteenth Century	243	(136)
Chapter 10 Empires of Guns and Goods
North America at the Opening of the Eighteenth Century	245	(27)
FRENCH AMERICA AFTER 1700	247	(6)
SPANISH BORDERLANDS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	253	(3)
ANGLO-AMERICA ON THE MOVE	256	(6)
NATIVE BORDERLANDS	262	(3)
THE BORDER CONFLICTS OF QUEEN ANNE'S WAR	265	(5)
RECOMMENDED READING	270	(2)
Chapter 11 Shining Borderlands
Population Growth, Immigration, and the Movement of Peoples in Eighteenth-Century America	272	(26)
"AN INCREASE WITHOUT PARALLEL": GROWTH AND MIGRATION	274	(7)
CONVICTS, DEBTORS, AND A BUFFER COLONY	281	(2)
"BETTERING THEIR CONDITION": EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IMMIGRATION	283	(4)
MIGRATION AND ADAPTATION IN INDIAN COUNTRY	287	(8)
WORLDS OF MOTION	295	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	296	(2)
Chapter 12 The Anglicization of Provincial America	298	(26)
BONDS OF EMPIRE	300	(7)
A TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY OF LETTERS	307	(3)
RELIGIOUS REVIVALS IN PROVINCIAL SOCIETIES	310	(5)
INDIAN AWAKENINGS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA	315	(6)
RECOMMENDED READING	321	(3)
Chapter 13 Slavery and African American Cultures in the Colonial British Atlantic	324	(27)
PLANTATIONS, COMMERCE, AND SLAVERY	326	(3)
COMMON THREADS OF AFRICAN EXPERIENCE	329	(10)
CONSTRUCTING AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITIES	339	(8)
A WORLD WITHIN A WORLD	347	(2)
RECOMMENDED READING	349	(2)
Chapter 14 Contesting Rule in a Commercial Empire	351	(28)
POLITICS AND EMPIRE	353	(10)
THE CONTEST FOR EMPIRE	363	(7)
TROUBLED TRIUMPH	370	(5)
RULE BRITANNIA?	375	(1)
RECOMMENDED READING	376	(3)
Index	379