A Companion to Colonial America

Copyright © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Colonial America

Editor(s): Daniel Vickers

Published Online: 13 DEC 2007

Print ISBN: 9780631210115

Online ISBN: 9780470998496

DOI: 10.1002/9780470998496

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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.


  • Coverage includes politics, religion, migration, gender, ecology, and many others.

Table of contents

    1. You have free access to this content
      Frontmatter (pages i–xiii)

    2. Chapter One

      Pre-Contact (pages 1–24)

      David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith

    3. Chapter Two

      The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization (pages 25–43)

      Carole Shammas

    4. Chapter Three

      Ecology (pages 44–75)

      John Brooke

    5. Chapter Four

      Migration and Settlement (pages 76–98)

      Ned Landsman

    6. Chapter Five

      Empire (pages 99–117)

      Richard R. Johnson

    7. Chapter Six

      Indian History During the English Colonial Era (pages 118–137)

      James H. Merrell

    8. Chapter Seven

      African Americans (pages 138–171)

      Philip D. Morgan

    9. Chapter Eight

      Economy (pages 172–193)

      Margaret Newell

    10. Chapter Nine

      Women and Gender (pages 194–235)

      Carol Karlsen

    11. Chapter Ten

      Children and Parents (pages 236–258)

      Holly Brewer

    12. Chapter Eleven

      Class (pages 259–287)

      Greg Nobles

    13. Chapter Twelve

      Colonial Politics (pages 288–310)

      Alan Tully

    14. Chapter Thirteen

      Regionalism (pages 311–333)

      Michael Zuckerman

    15. Chapter Fourteen

      Consumption (pages 334–365)

      Cary Carson

    16. Chapter Fifteen

      Religion (pages 366–388)

      Marilyn Westerkamp

    17. Chapter Sixteen

      Secular Culture in Search of an Early American Enlightenment (pages 389–407)

      Darren Staloff

    18. Chapter Seventeen

      Borderlands (pages 408–424)

      Daniel H. Usner

    19. Chapter Eighteen

      Comparisons (pages 425–450)

      Verene Shepherd and Carleen Payne

    20. Chapter Nineteen

      Comparisons (pages 451–468)

      Robert Ferry

    21. Chapter Twenty

      Comparisons (pages 469–488)

      Allan Greek

    22. Chapter Twenty-One

      Comparisons (pages 489–507)

      Peter Pope

    23. Chapter Twenty-Two

      Causes of the American Revolutions (pages 508–529)

      Sylvia Frey

    24. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Postscript (pages 530–540)

      Edward Countryman

    25. You have free access to this content
      Index (pages 541–562)

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