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Titolo: |
Converging worlds : communities and cultures in colonial America / / edited by Louise A. Breen
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st edition |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (649 p.) |
Disciplina: | 970.03 |
Soggetto topico: | Indians - First contact with Europeans |
Europeans - America - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | America Colonization History |
America Colonization History Sources | |
Europe Colonies America | |
Europe Colonies America Sources | |
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | |
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Sources | |
Altri autori: |
BreenLouise A
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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.C |
Titolo autorizzato: | Converging worlds ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-136-59673-9 |
0-415-96498-9 | |
1-136-59674-7 | |
0-203-33647-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819157103321 |
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