A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.
Contents
About the Contributors Introduction 1 Pre-Contact: The Evidence from Archaeology 2 The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization 3 Ecology 4 Migration and Settlement 5 Empire 6 Indian History During the English Colonial Era 7 African Americans 8 Economy 9 Women and Gender 10 Children and Parents 11 Class 12 Colonial Politics 13 Regionalism 14 Consumption 15 Religion 16 Secular Culture in Search of an Early American Enlightenment 17 Borderlands 18 Comparisons: The Caribbean 19 Comparisons: New Spain 20 Comparisons: New France 21 Comparisons: Atlantic Canada 22 Causes of the American Revolutions 23 Postscript: Large Questions in a Very Large Place Index