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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Documents | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Old and New Worlds Meet | |
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| The Peoples of Eastern North America: Societies in Transition | |
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| America Before Columbus and the Problem of History | |
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| The Americas in Ancient Times | |
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| The Eastern Woodlands, 1000-1300 | |
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| Eastern Woodlands Societies in Transition, 1300-1500 | |
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| Earliest Contacts with Europeans | |
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| The Age of European Exploration | |
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| Western Europe, 1300-1450 | |
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| The Portuguese in Africa | |
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| Spain Encounters the New World | |
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| Sixteenth-Century European Competitors | |
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| England: The Elizabethan Prelude | |
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| The Seventeenth-Century Settlements | |
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| The English Conquer Virginia, 1607-1660 | |
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| Virginia Before the English | |
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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, 1625-1660 | |
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| The Conquest Continues: New England, 1620-1660 | |
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| New England Before the English | |
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| The Pilgrims | |
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| Massachusetts: A City on the Hill | |
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| Establishing and Defending Order | |
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| Challenges from England | |
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| Stable Societies | |
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| Diverse Colonies: New France, New Netherland, Maryland, and the West Indies | |
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| New France | |
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| New Netherland and Delaware: The Dutch and Swedish Beginnings | |
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| Maryland: A Catholic Proprietary | |
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| English Colonies in die West Indies | |
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| The Restoration Era | |
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| The Return of Charles II | |
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| Mercantilism: The Navigation Laws | |
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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 Eras of William and Mary, and Queen Anne | |
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| William and Mary's Colonial Policy | |
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| The Salem Witchcraft Trials | |
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| War on the Northern Frontier, 1689-1713 | |
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| War and Political Change in the Carolinas | |
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| Proprietary Problems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century Provinces in a Changing Continent | |
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| The Economy and Labor System in British North America | |
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| The British Atlantic Economy | |
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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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| Settler Families and Society | |
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| New World Families | |
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| Children | |
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| Patriarchal Authority | |
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| Social Structure: Rank and Class | |
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| White Women and Gender | |
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| Gender and the Settler Experience in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Regional Variations | |
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| Gender in a Commercializing Culture: The Eighteenth-Century Refined Lady | |
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| Gender in a Commercializing Culture: Middling and Working White Women | |
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| British North American Religion, Education, and Culture, 1689-1760 | |
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| Religion | |
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| Education | |
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| The Anglicization of Taste | |
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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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| Slavery and the African American Experience, 1689-1760 | |
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| Slavery: An Evolving Institution | |
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| Slaves' Experiences | |
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| The African American Family | |
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| African American Culture | |
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| Free African Americans | |
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| Resistance to Slavery | |
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| Expanding Spanish and French Empires in North America | |
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| Florida | |
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| New Mexico | |
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| The Growth of New France | |
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| The French Upper Country, or Pays d'en Haut | |
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| Louisiana | |
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| Texas | |
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| Significance for the British Colonics | |
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| Native American Societies and Cultures, 1689-1760 | |
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| Native American Societies in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Nations of the Northern Frontier | |
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| The Nations of the Southern Frontier | |
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| Adaptation or Decline? | |
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| Immigration and Expansion in British North America, 1714-1750 | |
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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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| British North American Institutions of Government | |
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| The Royal Framework | |
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| Local Government: Town Meeting and County 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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| Britain, France, and Spain: The Imperial Contest, 1739-1763 | |
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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 War's Consequences | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |