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.
Richard Middleton is Reader of American History at The Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Year's War (1985).
"In touch with the past and in touch with the times, Richard Middleton's third edition of his history of Colonial America expands and improves upon its predecessors, making it easily the best text available for classroom use. In addition to its fluency and clarity - characteristics he brings from earlier editions - this iteration offers new insights based on the most recent scholarship and a coverage expanded to include discussions of the French and Spanish colonies on the continent that later became a part of the United States. A good book that just keeps getting better!" John J. McCusker, Trinity University
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