American colonial history : clashing cultures and faiths /
Kidd, Thomas S.,
American colonial history : clashing cultures and faiths / Thomas S. Kidd. - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [(c)2016.] - 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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.
9780300188349 030018834X
Indians of North America--Religion.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--Religion--History.
United States--Church history--To 1775.
Electronic Books.
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American colonial history : clashing cultures and faiths / Thomas S. Kidd. - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [(c)2016.] - 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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.
9780300188349 030018834X
Indians of North America--Religion.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--Religion--History.
United States--Church history--To 1775.
Electronic Books.
E188 E188