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Colonial America A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.
Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography
Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and women
Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial development
Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies

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This fourth edition first published 2011

2011 Richard Middleton and Anne Lombard

Edition history: Blackwell Publishing (1e, 1992; 2e, 2001; 3e, 2002)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Middleton, Richard, 1941

Colonial America: a history to 1763 / Richard Middleton and Anne Lombard. 4th ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9004-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. United StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775. I. Lombard, Anne S. II. Title.

E188.M52 2012

973.2dc22

2010047220

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDFs [ISBN 9781444396270]; ePub [ISBN 9781444396287]

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Cahokia mounds, circa 1150

The Indian town of Secotan, by John White

Indian hunter, by John White

Indians fishing, by John White

Indian man and woman preparing a meal, by John White

The Algonquian Indian village of Pomeiock

Roanoke and its vicinity, 1585, by John White

English colonists landing on the Potomac River in Virginia, 1634

An artist's impression of Jamestown, Virginia, 1607

Pocahontas in London

Portrait of John Winthrop

Underhill's Diagram of the Pequot Fight

First Maryland State House, 16341694

The Stadthuys of New York in 1679

William Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Portrait of King James II

The Salem witch trial (artist's reconstruction)

West Indian slaves processing indigo

Typical eighteenth-century kitchen hearth

Thomas Hancock House, Boston

Portrait of Mrs James Smith (Elizabeth Murray), 1769, by J. S. Copley

A Westerly View of the Colledges... (Harvard College)

College of New Jersey (later Princeton University)

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin at the age of 54

Plan of slave ship The Brookes

Advertisement for a sale of slaves, 1769

View of Mulberry, House and Street, 1805

Advertisement for the return of a runaway slave, 1765

Portrait of Pedro Menndez de Avils

Portrait of Sagayenkwaraton

A draught of the Creek nation, 1757

View of Savannah, March 29, 1734

A Northeast View of Boston

Southeast Prospect of the City of Philadelphia

Portrait of Major General Robert Hunter

French map of North America, 1756

A view of Qubec

The Death of General Wolfe, by Benjamin West

Maps

Eastern Woodlands coastal peoples, circa 15301608

The age of exploration

The Powhatan Confederacy in 1607

Seventeenth-century New England and New York

Major Indian peoples and European settlements in eastern North America, circa 1640

The English West Indies, 1660

The early Carolinas

Mid-seventeenth-century Maryland and Virginia

The middle colonies in the later seventeenth century

Eastern North America, 17151760

The provincial economy, 17001760

Africa as known to Europeans in the mid eighteenth century

Major British North American slaveholding regions

Stono Rebellion, South Carolina

Missions in Spanish Florida, circa 16741675

Spanish, French, and Indian settlements in the Gulf of Mexico in the mid eighteenth century

French claims in North America, circa 1700

The lower Mississippi Valley in the 1730s

Locations of major Indian peoples in eastern North America, circa 1750

Major Native American powers of the northern frontier, circa 1725

Major Native American powers of the southern frontier, circa 1725

Immigration and expansion, 17001760

The manors of New York

French-claimed, British-claimed, and disputed territory, 1755

The British offensive to secure the backcountry, 1755

The struggle for Canada, 17561760

Documents

The upbringing of children, Father Gabriel Sagard, 1632

The Indian method of warfare, Thomas Harriot, 1588

A first meeting with Europeans

License granted by Henry VII to John Cabot

John Rolfe's request for permission from Governor Sir Thomas Dale to marry Pocahontas, 1614

Formal constitution for a council and assembly in Virginia, July 24, 1621

The Mayflower Compact, November 1620

The examination of Mrs Hutchinson, November 1637

A call for Indian unity by Chief Miantonomo, 1642

An Act Concerning Religion

The Duke's Laws, April 2, 1664

Declaration of Nathaniel Bacon in the name of the people of Virginia, July 30, 1676

The Bill of Rights, 1689

Recantation of the women of Andover and Confession of Sarah Carrier, aged seven, 1692

Benjamin Franklin on the Protestant ethic: the advice of Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c. (1751, published 1755)

An Act to Enable Femes Coverts to Convey Their Estates, Georgia, 1760

Benjamin Franklin on George Whitefield

On training to be a lawyer: the early career of John Adams, 1758

A slave market, circa 1755

Afro-Floridians to the Spanish King, 1738

A suspected African rising prevented, 1680

The Iroquois reject English missionaries, circa 1710

The Micmacs ridicule the French, 1677

An attempt to cheat Indians of their lands, New Jersey, 1716

Gottlieb Mittelberger on the perils of crossing the Atlantic, 1750

Lord Cornbury instructed to obtain a permanent salary, 1703

The Albany plan of union, 1754

Preface to the Fourth Edition

This book tells the story of the British North American colonies, from the initial encounters between Europeans and the Native Americans who lived here in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, when Great Britain won political control over most of the territory in North America east of the Mississippi and north of the Gulf of Mexico.

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