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Author Breen, Louise A

Title Converging Worlds
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (649 pages)
Contents Converging Worlds Communities and Cultures in Colonial America; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Beginnings; Chapter 1 European Ambitions and Early Contacts: Diverse Styles of Colonization, 1492-1700; Chapter 2 Tentative Testimonies: The Aztecs, Conquest, and The Black Legend; Chapter 3 Indians of North America: First Encounters; PART II Regions; Chapter 4 The Chesapeake Bay; Chapter 5 New England; Chapter 6 The Caribbean Islands: British Trade, Settlement, and Colonization; Chapter 7 The Middle Colonies; Chapter 8 The Carolinas: Shaping of a Slave Society
PART III ThemesChapter 9 Judgment at Salem: War, Witchcraft, and Empire; Chapter 10 Purgatory: Interpreting Christian Missions and North American Indians; Chapter 11 The Slave Trade and Slavery; Chapter 12 Women, Family, and Gender; PART IV Transformations; Chapter 13 American Backcountries; Chapter 14 Spiritual Awakenings; Chapter 15 Enlightenment; Chapter 16 Ambitions: Expansion of New France; Chapter 17 French and Indian War; Afterword: A Revolutionary Era; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and ""Atlantic"" in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. With chapters written by top-notch scholars, Converging Worlds is unique in providing not only a comprehensive chronological approach to colonial history with attention to thematic details, but a window into the relevant historiography. Each historian also selected several documents to accompany their chapter, found in the companion primary source reader. Converging Worlds: Communities and Cul
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Subject Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
Indians -- First contact with other peoples -- Sources
Europeans -- America -- History
Europeans -- America -- History -- Sources
Colonization
Europeans
Indians -- First contact with other peoples
SUBJECT America -- Colonization -- History
America -- Colonization -- History -- Sources
Europe -- Colonies -- America
Europe -- Colonies -- America -- Sources
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140132
Subject America
United States
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203336472
020333647X