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A history of colonial America,

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Main Authors: Savelle, Max, 1896-1979., Wax, Darold D., (Author)
Language:English
Published: Hinsdale, Ill., Dryden Press [©1973]
Edition:3d ed.
Subjects and Genres:
1600-1775
The Cecil B. and Laura G. Currey Archive of Military History.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America > History.
États-Unis > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
North America.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1: America in the expansion of Europe
  • The European background of American history
  • The age of exploration
  • The earliest European colonies in America
  • International aspects of the age of discovery
  • England on the eve of colonization
  • Pt. 2: the beginnings of the British Empire in America, 1607-1650
  • The geography of North America
  • The aboriginal inhabitants of North America
  • The planting of Virginia
  • New Plymouth Plantation
  • "The Caribbee Isles"
  • Massachusetts Bay
  • The Puritan diaspora: Roger Williams and the founding of Rhode Island
  • The Puritan diaspora: Connecticut, New Haven, New Hampshire, Maine
  • Proprietary Maryland
  • New Netherland and New Sweden
  • Pt. 3: the crystallization of an empire, 1650-1689
  • England's colonial policy
  • New colonies founded under the restoration: Carolina
  • New Netherland becomes New York
  • The founding of Pennsylvania
  • The old colonies under the restoration: the West Indies, 1660-1689
  • Virginia and Maryland under the restoration
  • The breaking of rebellious New England
  • The glorious revolution in America
  • The rise of new France
  • The British empire and European diplomacy, 1648-1713
  • The first "Americans"
  • Pt. 4: the growth of the provinces in the eighteenth century
  • New England in the eighteenth century
  • New York and east New Jersey
  • The Quaker commonwealth: Pennsylvania, Delaware, and west New Jersey
  • Proprietary Maryland
  • The expansion of Virginia
  • North Carolina grows up
  • The development of South Carolina
  • Georgia: a refuge and a fortress
  • The heyday of the British West Indies
  • Pt. 5: a flourishing empire
  • The British imperial system
  • The colonial constitution
  • The expansion of the colonial economy
  • A changing colonial society: immigration and the "old west"
  • The mind of provincial America
  • British America in international relations, 1713-1763
  • Pt. 6: the breakup of an empire and the birth of an nation
  • The reorganization of the British empire in America, 1763-1770
  • The new west
  • The rift in the empire, 1770-1776
  • The War for American independence
  • The diplomacy of independence
  • The internal revolution: the birth of republicanism
  • The internal revolution: the ferment of freedom
  • social and religious change
  • Problems of the confederation, 1781-1787
  • The completion of the revolution: the Constitution of 1787-1791.

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