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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.
Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America includes:
timelines tailored for every chapter
chapter summaries
discussion questions
lists of further reading, introducing students to specialist literature
fifty illustrations.
Key topics discussed include:
French, Spanish, and Native American experiences
regional areas such as the Midwest and Southwest
religion including missions, witchcraft, and Protestants
the experience of women and families.
With its synthesis of both broad time periods and specific themes, Converging Worlds is ideal for students of the colonial period, and provides a fascinating glimpse into the diverse foundations of America.
For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Converging Worlds companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415964999.
Contents
Beginnings
European Ambitions and Early Contacts: Diverse Styles of Colonization, 1492-1700, Timothy Walker
Tentative Testimonies: Indigenous and Spanish Accounts of the Conquest and Colonization of new Spain, 1100-1650, Heather McCrea
Indians of North America: First Encounters, Michael Oberg
Regions
The Chesapeake Bay, L.H. Roper
New England, Richard Gildrie
The Caribbean Islands: British Trade, Settlement and Colonization, James Robertson
Middle Colonies, Wayne Bodle
The Carolinas: Shaping of a Slave Society, Noeleen McIlvanna
Themes
Transformations: Salem Witchcraft Tragedy, War and Empire, Louise Breen
Purgatory: Interpreting Christian Missions and North American Indians, David J. Silverman
The Slave Trade and Slavery, Ty Reese
Women, Family, and Gender, Linda Sturtz
Transformations
Backcountries, Warren Hofstra
Spiritual Awakenings, Kenneth Minkema
Enlightenment, Ned Landsman
Ambitions: Expansion of New France, Robert Morissey
French and Indian War, James Piecuch
Afterword: A Revolutionary Era, Walter Sargent
