Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America / Edition 1

by Louise A. Breen (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415964999
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	646
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louise A. Breen is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University. She is the author of Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692.

Table of Contents

Beginnings

1. European Ambitions and Early Contacts: Diverse Styles of Colonization, 1492-1700, Timothy Walker
2. Tentative Testimonies: Indigenous and Spanish Accounts of the Conquest and Colonization of new Spain, 1100-1650, Heather McCrea
3. Indians of North America: First Encounters, Michael Oberg

Regions

4. The Chesapeake Bay, L.H. Roper
5. New England, Richard Gildrie
6. The Caribbean Islands: British Trade, Settlement and Colonization, James Robertson
7. Middle Colonies, Wayne Bodle
8. The Carolinas: Shaping of a Slave Society, Noeleen McIlvanna

Themes

9. Transformations: Salem Witchcraft Tragedy, War and Empire, Louise Breen
10. Purgatory: Interpreting Christian Missions and North American Indians, David J. Silverman
11. The Slave Trade and Slavery, Ty Reese
12. Women, Family, and Gender, Linda Sturtz

Transformations

13. Backcountries, Warren Hofstra
14. Spiritual Awakenings, Kenneth Minkema
15. Enlightenment, Ned Landsman
16. Ambitions: Expansion of New France, Robert Morissey
17. French and Indian War, James Piecuch

Afterword: A Revolutionary Era, Walter Sargent