Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A History in Documents

by Rushforth; Brett

• ISBN13: 9780132342377
• ISBN10: 0132342375
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781315510316
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-26
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
• More Book Details

Summary

A comprehensive collection of primary documents for readers of early American and Atlantic history,Colonial North America and the Atlantic Worldgives voice to the men and women-Amerindian, African, and European-who together forged a new world. These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests and English farmers, Indian diplomats and Dutch governors, French explorers and African abolitionists. Evoking the remarkable complexity created by the bridging of the Atlantic Ocean,Colonial North America and the Atlantic Worldsuggests that the challenges of globalization-and the growing reality of American diversity-are among the most important legacies of the colonial world.

Author Biography

Brett Rushforth is Assistant Professor of History and director of Native American Studies at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses on the history of early America, American Indians, and comparative slavery. A former fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, he is currently completing a book on the enslavement of American Indians in France’s American colonies.

 

Paul Mapp is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, where he teaches courses on colonial North America, the Seven Years’ War, the American Revolution, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.  A former fellow at the Omohundro Institute, he is currently completing a book manuscript on the role of the North American West in eighteenth-century international affairs.

Table of Contents

Natives

Huron Creation Story

Coronado Visits a Pueblo Town in the Southwest

Hernando De Soto Describes the American Southeast

Colonizers

Marco Polo Describes the Riches of Asia Columbus Reaches the New World

William Bradford Describes an Outbreak of Smallpox

New Spain

The Requirement

A Soldier Recalls the Spanish Entrance into Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

A Spanish Priest Condemns Cruelty toward the Indians

The Spanish Frontier

Cabeza de Vacarsquo;s Southwestern Odyssey

Pueblo Indians Discuss the Pueblo Revolt

Canada And Iroquoia

A French Explorer Encounters an Iroquoian Village

Champlain Describes the Introduction of Firearms into Indian Warfare

A Jesuit Discusses Life among the Indians

Virginia

A Plan for Englandrsquo;s Colonization of North America

The First Colonists Arrive at Jamestown

Captain John Smith Describes Virginia Indian Society

Chesapeake Colonies

Frontier Planters Appeal for Protection from Indian Attacks

Virginiarsquo;s Governor Accuses his Enemies of Treason

Nathaniel Bacon Justifies Rebellion

The Virginia Slave Code of 1705

A Virginia Planterrsquo;s Diary

New England

Winthroprsquo;s Vision of New England

Anne Hutchinson Challenges Massachusetts Orthodoxy

Cotton Mather Wrestles with Witchcraft

Puritans And Indians

English and Indians Establish an Alliance

A Minister Discusses the Dilemmas Confronting Christian Indians

An English Woman Recounts Her Captivity

The West Indies

A Portrait of Barbados

Pirates of the Caribbean

Carolina

A Colonial Leader Discusses the Geopolitics of Carolina in a Time of War

A Missionary Discusses Christianity and Slavery

A Description of Eighteenth-Century South Carolina

Middle Colonies

Dutch Ministers Discuss New Netherland

Stuyvesant Explains the Fall of New Netherland

William Penn Promotes Pennsylvania

Welsh Immigrant Life in Pennsylvania

Revolutions

Rebellion in Boston

Rebellion i

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