Maps | |
Figures and Tables | |
Features | |
Preface | |
Supplements | |
A Conversation with the Authors | |
Meet the Authors | |
Acknowledgements | |
North American Founders | |
First Founders | |
Ancient America | |
The Question of Origins | |
The Newest Approaches | |
The Archaic World | |
The Rise of Maize Agriculture | |
A Thousand Years of Change, a.d. 500 to 1500 | |
Valleys of the Sun: The Mesoamerican Empires | |
The Anasazi: Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde | |
The Mississippians: Cahokia and Moundville | |
Linking the Continents | |
Oceanic Travel: The Norse and the Chinese | |
Portugal and the Beginnings of Globalization | |
Looking for the Indies: da Gama and Columbus | |
In the Wake of Columbus: Competition and Exchange | |
Spain Enters the Americas | |
The Devastation of the Indies | |
The Spanish Conquest of the Aztec | |
Magellan and Corteacute;s Prompt New Searches | |
Three New Views of North America | |
The Protestant Reformation Plays Out in America | |
Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe | |
Competing Powers Lay Claim to Florida | |
The Background of English Exploration | |
Lost Colony: The Roanoke Experience | |
Conclusion | |
Sites to Visit | |
For Further Reading | |
Interpreting History | |
ldquo;These Gods That We Worship Give Us Everything We Need.rdquo; | |
Connecting History | |
Lost at Sea | |
Mapping History | |
The American Bottom, Where Three Rivers Meet | |
European Footholds on the Fringes of North America, 1600-1660 | |
Spainrsquo;s Ocean-Spanning Reach | |
Vizcaiacute;no in California and Japan | |
Ontilde;ate Creates a Spanish Foothold in the Southwest | |
New Mexico Survives: New Flocks Among Old Pueblos | |
Conversion and Rebellion in Spanish Florida | |
France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain | |
The Founding of New France | |
Competing for the Beaver Trade | |
A Dutch Colony on the Hudson River | |
ldquo;All Sorts of Nationalitiesrdquo;: Diverse New Amsterdam | |
English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast | |
The Virginia Company and Jamestown | |
ldquo;Starving Timerdquo; and Seeds of Representative Government | |
Launching the Plymouth Colony | |
The Puritan Experiment | |
Formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company | |
ldquo;We Shall Be As a City upon a Hill.rdquo; | |
Dissenters: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson | |
Expansion and Violence: The Pequot War | |
The Chesapeake Bay Colonies | |
The Demise of the Virginia Company | |
Maryland: The Catholic Refuge | |
The Dwellings of English Newcomers | |
The Lure of Tobacco | |
Conclusion | |
Sites to Visit | |
For Further Reading | |
Connecting History: Wind Power: Traditional and Novel | |
Interpreting History: Anne Bradstreet: ldquo;The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America.rdquo; | |
Mapping History: New York Harbor: Quiet Bay to Global Port | |
Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715 | |
France and the American Interior | |
The Rise of the Sun King | |
Exploring the Mississippi Valley | |
King Williamrsquo;s War in the Northeast | |
Founding the Louisiana Colony | |
The Spanish Empire on the Defensive | |
The Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico | |
Navajos and Spanish on the Southwestern Frontier | |
Borderland Conflict in Texas and Florida | |
Englandrsquo;s American Empire Takes Shape | |
Monarchy Restored and Navigation Controlled | |
Fierce Anglo-Dutch Competition | |
The New Restoration Colonies | |
The Contrasting Worlds of Pennsylvania and Carolina | |
Bloodshed in the English Colonies: 1670-1690 | |
Metacomrsquo;s War in New England | |
Baconrsquo;s Rebellion in Virginia | |
The ldquo;Glorious Revolutionrdquo; in England | |
The ldquo;Glorious Revolutionrdquo; in America | |
Consequences of War and Growth: 1690-1715 | |
Salemrsquo;s Wartime Witch Hunt | |
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