Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development

I. A Global Perspective Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes - Jared DiamondII. THE EUROPEAN INVASION OF THE AMERICAS Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires - Patricia Seed Conquistadores of the Spirit - David J. Weber Reluctant Exiles: The Problem of Colonization in French North America - Peter N. Moogk From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland - Russell R. Menard The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland - Lois G. Carr and Lorena S. Walsh The African Experience of the "20. and Odd Negroes" Arriving in Virginia in 1619 - John Thornton Family Structure in Seventeenth-Century Andover, Massachusetts - Philip J. Greven, Jr. The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England - Elizabeth Reis "Tender Plants": Quaker Farmers and Children in the Delaware Valley, 1681-1735 - Barry J. Levy III. THE CLASH OF CULTURES IN AN AGE OF CRISIS War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience - Daniel K. Richter The Indians' New World: The Catawba Experience - James H. Merrell King Philip's Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England - Virginia DeJohn Anderson Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox The Menacing Shadow of Louis XIV and the Rage of Jacob Leisler: The Constitutional Ordeal of Seventeenth-Century New York - John M. Murrin The Pueblo Revolt and its Aftermath - Ramon A. GutierrezIV. PROVINCIAL AMERICA "The Extension of His Majesties Dominions": The Virginia Backcountry and the Reconfiguration of Imperial Frontiers - Warren R. Hofstra "Baubles of Britain": The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century - T.H. Breen Markets and Composite Farms in Early America - Richard M. Bushman Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village - Cornelia Dayton Social Transactions between Whites and Blacks - Philip D. Morgan V. MID-CENTURY CRISES AND TRANSFORMATIONS Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida - Jane Landers African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion - John ThorntonFrank Lambert "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, 1737-1745Gregory Evans DowdThe Indians' Great Awakening