Companion to Colonial America

Daniel Vickers is Professor of History at the University of California San Diego. He is the author of Farmers and Fisherman: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts (1994).

About the Contributors. Introduction. 1. Pre-Contact: The Evidence from Archaeology. David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith. 2. The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization. Carole Shammas. 3. Ecology. John Brooke. 4. Migration and Settlement. Ned Landsman. 5. Empire. Richard R. Johnson. 6. Indian History During the English Colonial Era. James H. Merrell. 7. African-Americans. Philip D. Morgan. 8. Economy. Margaret Newell. 9. Women and Gender. Carol Karlsen. 10. Generation. Holly Brewer. 11. Class. Greg Nobles. 12. Colonial Politics. Alan Tully. 13. Regionalism. Michael Zuckerman. 14. Consumption. Cary Carson. 15. Religion. Marilyn Westerkamp. 16. Secular Culture in Search of an Early American Enlightenment. Darren Staloff. 17. Borderlands. Daniel H. Usner, Jr. 18. Comparisons: The Caribbean. Verene Shepherd and Carleen Payne. 19. Comparisons: New Spain. Robert Ferry. 20. Comparisons: New France. Allan Greer. 21. Comparisons: Atlantic Canada. Peter Pope. 22. Causes of the American Revolutions. Silvia Frey. 23. Postscript: Large Questions in a Very Large Place. Edward Countryman. Index.