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American colonial history : clashing cultures and faiths / Thomas S. Kidd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300188349
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E188 .A447 2016
  • E188
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The Spanish Empire in America -- The French Empire in America -- Virginia and the Chesapeake -- New England -- The middle colonies -- The colonial South and Caribbean -- Africans and Atlantic world slavery -- The glorious Revolution and the links of empire in English America -- The great awakening -- The Anglo-American backcountry -- The early American West -- The Seven Years' War -- Conclusion: The crisis of the British Empire in America.
Subject: "Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of European colonists, Africans, and Native Americans and their encounters in colonial North America, Kidd offers fresh perspectives on these events and the period as a whole. This compelling volume is organized around themes of religion and conflict, and distinguished by its incorporation of an expanded geographic frame."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of European colonists, Africans, and Native Americans and their encounters in colonial North America, Kidd offers fresh perspectives on these events and the period as a whole. This compelling volume is organized around themes of religion and conflict, and distinguished by its incorporation of an expanded geographic frame."--Publisher's description.

Native Americans and the European encounter -- The Spanish Empire in America -- The French Empire in America -- Virginia and the Chesapeake -- New England -- The middle colonies -- The colonial South and Caribbean -- Africans and Atlantic world slavery -- The glorious Revolution and the links of empire in English America -- The great awakening -- The Anglo-American backcountry -- The early American West -- The Seven Years' War -- Conclusion: The crisis of the British Empire in America.

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