Colonial America: 1607-1763 / Edition 1

by Harry M. Ward

Overview

A complete overview of issues, problems, development and lifestyles in the American colonies – from their founding to the climax of the colonial experience in the 1763, with America on the verge of the Revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131424494
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	10/15/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

I. THE FOUNDING OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

1. The Atlantic Frontier.

2. The Chesapeake Colonies.

3. New England.

4. The Completion of Colonization.

II. ECONOMIC LIFE.

5. Land and Agriculture.

6. Industrial Life.

7. Trade and Empire.

III. TRANSPLANTED EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS.

8. The New Immigration.

9. Colonists in Bondage.

10. Black Slavery: Life and Resistance.

IV. SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY.

11. Women, Children, and Family.

12. Social Structure and Leisure.

13. The Urban Challenge.

V. LIBERTY AND ORDER.

14. Government and Politics.

15. Criminality and Radical Counterculture.

16. Toward the Bill of Rights.

17. Colonial Rebellions.

VI. CULTURAL ENLIGHTENMENT.

18. Religion.

19. Science and Arts.

20. Literature and the Diffusion of Knowledge.

VII. FROM COLONY TO COUNTRY.

21. The Frontier and Indians.

22. The Colonial Wars.

23. Rise of American Nationality.

Suggested Reading.

Index.