Colonial North America
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: [edited by] Brett Rushforth, Paul W. Mapp.
Contributors: Rushforth, Brett.; Mapp, Paul W.
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780132342377
Subjects: Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Sources; North America -- Colonization -- Sources; America -- Early accounts to 1600; North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources; North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Sources; North America -- Discovery and exploration -- French -- Sources; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865 -- Sources
Genres: Sources.; Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Native North America; title: Huron creation story; title: Coronado visits a pueblo town in the Southwest; title: Hernando De Soto describes the American southeast; title: Marco Polo describes the riches of Asia; title: Columbus reaches the New World; title: William Bradford describes an outbreak of smallpox; title: The requisition; title: A soldier recalls the Spanish entrance into Tenochtitlan (Mexico City); title: An Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico; title: A Spanish priest condemns cruelty toward the Indians; title: Cabeza De Vaca's southwestern odyssey; title: Pueblo Indians discuss the Pueblo revolt; title: French explorer Jacques Cartier encounters an Iroquoian village; title: Champlain describes the introduction of firearms into Indian warfare; title: Jesuit Jean De Brebeuf discusses life among the Hurons; title: A plan for English colonization of North America; title: The first colonists arrive at Jamestown; title: Captain John Smith describes Virginia Indian society; title: Frontier planters appeal for protection from Indian attacks; title: Virginia's governor accuses his enemies of treason; title: Nathaniel Bacon justifies rebellion; title: The Virginia Slave Code of 1705; title: A Virginia planter's dairy; title: Winthrop's vision of New England; title: Anne Hutchinson challenges Massachusetts orthodoxy; title: Cotton Mather wrestles with witchcraft; title: English and Indians establish an alliance; title: A minister discusses the dilemmas confronting Christian Indians; title: An English woman recounts her captivity; title: A portrait of Barbados; title: Pirates of the Caribbean; title: A colonial leader discusses the geopolitics of Carolina in a time of war; title: A missionary discusses Christianity and slavery; title: A description of eighteenth-century South Carolina; title: Dutch ministers discuss New Netherland; title: Stuyvesant explains the fall of New Netherland; title: William Penn promotes Pennsylvania; title: Welsh immigrant life.