Converging worlds
Subtitle: communities and cultures in colonial America
By: edited by Louise A. Breen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415964982; 9780415964999; 9780203336472
Subjects: Europeans; Sources; History; First contact with Europeans; Colonies; Indians; Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: European ambitions and early contacts : diverse styles of colonization, 1492-1700 / Timothy Walker; title: Tentative testimonies : indigenous and Spanish accounts of the conquest and colonization of New Spain, 1100-1650 / Heather McCrea; title: Indians of North America : first encounters / Michael Oberg; title: The Chesapeake Bay / L.H. Roper; title: New England / Richard Gildrie; title: The Caribbean islands : British trade, settlement and colonization / James Robertson; title: Middle Colonies / Wayne Bodle; title: The Carolinas : shaping of a slave society / Noeleen McIlvanna; title: Transformations : Salem witchcraft tragedy, war and empire / Louise Breen; title: Purgatory : interpreting Christian missions and North American Indians / David J. Silverman; title: The slave trade and slavery / Ty Reese; title: Women, family, and gender / Linda Sturtz; title: Backcountries / Warren Hofstra; title: Spiritual awakenings / Kenneth Minkema; title: Enlightenment / Ned Landsman; title: Ambitions : expansion of New France / Robert Morissey; title: French and indian War / James Piecuch; title: Afterward : a revolutionary era / Walter Sargent.