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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Europeans Encounter Another World | |
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| The Age of European Exploration | |
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| Spain and Portugal | |
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| England: The Elizabethan Prelude | |
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| The Peoples of Eastern North America | |
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| The Precontact Background | |
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| The Columbian Impact | |
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| Eastern North America, Circa 1600 | |
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| The Seventeenth-Century Settlements | |
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| The English Arrive: Virginia, 1607-60 | |
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| The Virginia Company: Early Settlement | |
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| The Charter of Liberties | |
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| The Massacre of 1622 and Fall of the Company | |
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| Growth and Consolidation, 1625-60 | |
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| The Conquest Continues: New England, 1620-60 | |
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| The Pilgrim Fathers | |
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| Massachusetts: A City on the Hill | |
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| The Struggle for Orthodoxy | |
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| The Commonwealth Secured | |
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| Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire | |
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| Maryland and New York, 1624-60: | |
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| Maryland: A Catholic Proprietary | |
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| New York and Delaware: The Dutch and Swedish Beginnings | |
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| The Restoration Era: | |
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| The Return of Charles II | |
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| Mercantilism: The Navigation Years | |
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| New York Becomes an English Colony | |
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| The Carolinas: Early Settlement | |
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| The Later Years of Charles II: | |
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| Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion and Its Aftermath | |
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| Massachusetts: The Struggle to Remain Self-governing | |
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| New Jersey and Pennsylvania: The Beginnings | |
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| James II and the Glorious Revolution: | |
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| The Dominion of New England | |
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| Massachusetts Reclaims Control | |
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| New York: Leisler's Rebellion | |
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| Maryland | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| The Era of William and Anne: | |
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| William III's Colonial Policy | |
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| The Salem Witchcraft Trials | |
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| Proprietary Problems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey | |
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| The End of Proprietary Government in the Carolinas | |
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| War and the American Colonies, 1689-1713 | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century Provinces | |
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| The Provincial Economy and Labor System | |
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| The Southern Plantation System | |
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| Northern Farming and Commerce | |
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| The Mercantilist System | |
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| Money and Taxation | |
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| The Standard of Living: Poverty and Prosperity | |
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| European-American Family and Society | |
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| The Family Structure | |
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| Children | |
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| Social Structure: Rank and Class | |
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| European-American Women: | |
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| Old World Legacies: New World Opportunities? | |
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| Life Cycles | |
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| Household Enterprises, Business, and the Professions | |
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| European-American Religion, Education, and Culture, 1689-1760 | |
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| Religion | |
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| Education | |
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| Libraries, Literature, and the Press | |
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| Science and the Arts | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Architecture: The Anglicization of Taste | |
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| African-American Society and Culture, 1689-1760 | |
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| Coming to America: The Middle Passage | |
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| The African-American Family | |
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| Work and Culture | |
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| White Over Black: The Slave Codes | |
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| Free African-Americans | |
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| American Indian Society and Culture, 1689-1760 | |
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| The Coastal Reservations | |
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| The Nations of the Northern Frontier | |
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| The Nations of the Southern Frontier | |
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| The Institutions of Government | |
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| The Royal Framework | |
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| Local Government: Town Meeting and Country Court | |
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| The Provincial Assembly: Crown Versus People | |
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| Parties and Factions in the Age of Walpole | |
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| Toward a Republican Ideology | |
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| Immigration and Expansion, 1714-50 | |
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| The Germans and Scots-Irish | |
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| The Founding of Georgia | |
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| The Urban Frontier | |
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| Imperial Neighbors: Spain and France in Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana | |
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| Florida | |
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| New Mexico | |
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| Texas | |
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| Louisiana | |
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| Britain, France, and Spain: The Imperial Contest, 1739-60 | |
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| The War of Jenkins'Ear | |
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| The Struggle for the Ohio | |
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| The Conquest of Canada | |
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| The Path To Independence | |
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| The Rights of British America, 1760-66 | |
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| The Empire in 1760 | |
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| The Grenville Ministry and Imperial Reform | |
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| The American Response: The Rights of British Subjects | |
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| Internal Conflict | |
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| Revolution and Independence, 1767-76 | |
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| The Struggle Renewed: The Townshend Duties | |
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| Interlude, 1770-73 | |
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| The Intolerable Acts | |
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| War and Independence | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |