Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-392) and index.
Contents:
PART I: CREATING AN ATLANTIC WORLD -- Origins of an Atlantic World -- Trade and Violence in an Emerging Atlantic World, 1500-1625 -- PART II: THE CONTEST FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SETTLEMENT -- Winners and Losers on the Tobacco Coast, 1607-1660 -- Sugar, Slaves and Profits : The English Contest for a Caribbean Empire -- Cities on a Hill : Bible Commonwealths in New England, 1620-1660 -- England's Quest for a Commercial Empire -- Conflict, Transformation, Realignment -- PART III: PROVINCES IN A CONTESTED EMPIRE : THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- Empires of Guns and Goods : North America at the Opening of the Eighteenth Century -- Shifting Borderlands : Migrations in Eighteenth-Century America -- The Anglicization of Provincial America -- Slavery and Empire : African American Cultures in the Colonial British Atlantic -- Imperial Competition for the American Market -- PART IV: AN INDEPENDENT AMERICA IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD -- Colonial Alienation within the British Empire -- Crucible of Liberty : Varieties of Independence in the Revolutionary War -- Independence in an Atlantic World.
Summary:
"The second edition of Colonial America in an Atlantic World, like the first, responds to a growing interest among teachers and students in a broad and exciting field commonly known as Atlantic History. The approach greatly expands the human and physical boundaries of the subject, which once only looked at white settlers organizing new forms of religion and government. This traditional perspective left too many people out of the story. We have, therefore, tried to present the history of Colonial America in terms of dynamic interaction among the peoples of four continents over several centuries. The world in which these diverse peoples fought, traded, befriended, allied, betrayed one another, made love, married, and bore children was an extraordinarily complex and fluid multiplicity of communities, a vast region in which nations remained in constant flux from fifteenth century through the end of the eighteenth and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
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