Colonial America

Stanley N. Katz is Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princetons Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has written widely on political, legal, and constitutional history, and is the Editor in Chief of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. John M. Murrin is Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. He is co-author of Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People. Douglas Greenberg is Professor of History and Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Originally trained in early American history, he now writes about the Holocaust and comparative genocide. David J. Silverman is Associate Professor of History at The George Washington University. He is the author of Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America. Denver Brunsman is Assistant Professor of History at Wayne State University. He is the co-editor of Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760-1805.

Preface Map 1. The Atlantic World, c. 1700 Map 2. The West Indies, c. 1700 Map 3. British North America, c. mid-18th Century Part I The First Globalization 1. Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes, Jared Diamond Part II Indians, Europeans, and Africans in the Seventeenth Century 2. Trade and Acculturation at Jamestown, 1607-1609: The Limits of Understanding, Martin H. Quitt 3. Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Marthas Vineyard, David J. Silverman 4. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience, Daniel K. Richter 5. Slaveholders "Hellish Principles": A Seventeenth-Century Critique, Alden T. Vaughan 6. "The Cause of Her Grief": The Rape of a Slave in Early New England, Wendy Anne Warren Part III Colonies 7. Conquistadores of the Spirit, David J. Weber 8. Reluctant Exiles: Emigrants from France in Canada before 1760, Peter N. Moogk 9. Chesapeake Slavery in Atlantic Context, April Lee Hatfield 10. Family Strategies and Religious Practice: Baptism and the Lords Supper in Early New England, Anne S. Brown and David D. Hall 11. Overcoming Nausea: The Brothers Hesselius and the Great American Mystery, Kenneth A. Lockridge 12. "Tender Plants": Quaker Farmers and Children in the Delaware Valley, 1681-1735 , Barry J. Levy Part IV Crises 13. "Subjects . . . unto the same king": New England Indians and the Use of Royal Political Power, Jenny Hale Pulsipher 14. Rebellions and Reconquests in Northern New Spain, Colin G. Calloway 15. The Protestant Moment: Antipopery, the Revolution of 1688-1689, and the Making of an Anglo-American Empire, Owen Stanwood 16. Coming to Terms with the Salem Witch Trials, John M. Murrin 17. Diplomacy and War in the Colonial Southeast, 1699-1706, Alan Gallay Part V American Slaveries, American Laborers 18. From Slaves, Convicts, and Servants to Free Passengers: The Transformation of Immigration in the Era of the American Revolution, Aaron S. Fogleman 19. "A Little Flesh We Offer You": The Origins of Indian Slavery in New France, Brett Rushforth 20. The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment, David Eltis 21. Social Transactions between Whites and Blacks, Philip D. Morgan 22. African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion, John K. Thornton Part VI Provincial America 23. "Baubles of Britain": The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century, T.H. Breen 24. "Peddler in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, 1737-1745, Frank Lambert 25. The Passions of Empire: Affection, Desire, and the Bonds of Nation in the British Atlantic, Brendan McConville 26. The Knowles Atlantic Impressment Riots of the 1740s, Denver Brunsman Part VII Launching the First Global War 27. George Washington Enters the World Stage, Fred Anderson