Colonial North America and the Atlantic World : A History in Documents
Colonial North America and the Atlantic World : A History in Documents
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Author(s): Rushforth, Brett
ISBN No.: 9780132342377
Pages: 350
Year: 200802
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 147.81
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Chapter 1 NATIVE NORTH AMERICA Huron Creation Story Coronado Visits a Pueblo Town in the Southwest Hernando De Soto Describes the American Southeast CHAPTER 2 EUROPEANS AND THE NEW WORLD Marco Polo Describes the Riches of Asia Columbus Reaches the New World William Bradford Describes an Outbreak of Smallpox CHAPTER 3 NEW SPAIN The Requirement A Soldier Recalls the Spanish Entrance into Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico A Spanish Priest Condemns Cruelty toward the Indians Chapter 4 THE SPANISH FRONTIER Cabeza de Vaca's Southwestern Odyssey Pueblo Indians Discuss the Pueblo Revolt Chapter 5 CANADA AND IROQUOIA A French Explorer Encounters an Iroquoian Village Champlain Describes the Introduction of Firearms into Indian Warfare A Jesuit Discusses Life among the Indians Chapter 6 VIRGINIA A Plan for England's Colonization of North America The First Colonists Arrive at Jamestown Captain John Smith Describes Virginia Indian Society Chapter 7 CHESAPEAKE COLONIES Frontier Planters Appeal for Protection from Indian Attacks Virginia's Governor Accuses his Enemies of Treason Nathaniel Bacon Justifies Rebellion The Virginia Slave Code of 1705 A Virginia Planter's Diary Chapter 8 NEW ENGLAND Winthrop's Vision of New England Anne Hutchinson Challenges Massachusetts Orthodoxy Cotton Mather Wrestles with Witchcraft Chapter 9 PURITANS AND INDIANS English and Indians Establish an Alliance A Minister Discusses the Dilemmas Confronting Christian Indians An English Woman Recounts Her Captivity Chapter 10 THE WEST INDIES A Portrait of Barbados Pirates of the Caribbean Chapter 11 CAROLINA A Colonial Leader Discusses the Geopolitics of Carolina in a Time of War A Missionary Discusses Christianity and Slavery A Description of Eighteenth-Century South Carolina Chapter 12 MIDDLE COLONIES Dutch Ministers Discuss New Netherland Stuyvesant Explains the Fall of New Netherland William Penn Promotes Pennsylvania Welsh Immigrant Life in Pennsylvania Chapter 13 ATLANTIC REVOLUTIONS Rebellion in Boston Rebellion in New York A Captive Strikes Back The Trial of William Kidd Chapter 14 ATLANTIC WORLDS A German Immigrant's Journey to America An African Slave Describes His Capture and the Middle Passage Benjamin Franklin Reflects on His Life and Times Slave Advertisements from the Pennsylvania Gazette Chapter 15 RELIGION AND SOCIETY Jonathan Edwards Speaks of Sin and Salvation Franklin Contemplates Whitefield Hannah Heaton's Conversion Experience An Itinerant Preacher Provokes the Wrath of Established Clergy Whitefield Reproves and Exhorts Slaveholders Chapter 16 FRENCH NORTH AMERICA Indian Diplomacy in New France A Traveler Describes French Society in the St. Lawrence Valley An Account of the Natchez War Chapter 17 INDIANS AND EMPIRES ON THE GREAT PLAINS A French Explorer Describes his Interactions with Plains Indians Spanish-Indian Relations on the Southern Plains Chapter 18 IMPERIAL WARS AND CRISIS Explaining the Value of France's American Colonies Disaster in the Forest Frenchmen, Indians, and Prisoners at Fort William Henry Pontiac's Forces Surprise and Are Surprised Chapter 19 PACIFIC WORLDS Salvador Palma Asks for Missions Lasuèn and the "Denaturalizing" of California's Indians Cook Contemplates the Moachats.


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