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As an anthology of readings by top scholars in the field of Early American History, Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development provides students with an insightful and critical view of the Colonial period. The Fifth Edition is heavily revised to reflect shifting emphasis on the continentalist approach to early American history. With seventeen new essays, including essays on the New France and Spanish borderlands, this reader continues to be a best-selling text in the Colonial America course.

I. A Global Perspective

Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes - Jared Diamond

II. THE EUROPEAN INVASION OF THE AMERICAS

Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires - Patricia Seed

Conquistadores of the Spirit - David J. Weber

Reluctant Exiles: The Problem of Colonization in French North America - Peter N. Moogk

From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland - Russell R. Menard

The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland - Lois G. Carr and Lorena S. Walsh

The African Experience of the "20. and Odd Negroes" Arriving in Virginia in 1619 - John Thornton

Family Structure in Seventeenth-Century Andover, Massachusetts - Philip J. Greven, Jr.

The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England - Elizabeth Reis

“Tender Plants”: Quaker Farmers and Children in the Delaware Valley, 1681-1735 - Barry J. Levy

III. THE CLASH OF CULTURES IN AN AGE OF CRISIS

War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience - Daniel K. Richter

The Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience - James H. Merrell

King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England - Virginia DeJohn Anderson

Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox

The Menacing Shadow of Louis XIV and the Rage of Jacob Leisler: The Constitutional Ordeal of Seventeenth-Century New York - John M. Murrin

The Pueblo Revolt and its Aftermath - Ramón A. Gutiérrez

IV. PROVINCIAL AMERICA

“The Extension of His Majesties Dominions”: The Virginia Backcountry and the Reconfiguration of Imperial Frontiers - Warren R. Hofstra

“Baubles of Britain”: The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century - T.H. Breen

Markets and Composite Farms in Early America - Richard M. Bushman

Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village - Cornelia Dayton

Social Transactions between Whites and Blacks - Philip D. Morgan

V. MID-CENTURY CRISES AND TRANSFORMATIONS

Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida - Jane Landers

African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion - John ThorntonFrank Lambert

“Pedlar in Divinity”: George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, 1737-1745Gregory Evans Dowd

The Indians’ Great Awakening