The brave new world : a history of early America / Peter Charles Hoffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

History.

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

America--Discovery and exploration.

America.

Discoveries in geography.

Physical Description:

x, 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2006]

Summary:

The Brave New World covers early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to the creation of the new nation. Peter Charles Hoffer combines Atlantic Rim scholarship with a Continental perspective, illuminating early America from all angles-from its first settlers to the Spanish Century, from African slavery to the Salem witchcraft cases, from prayer and drinking practices to the development of complex economies, from the colonies' fight for freedom to an infant nation's struggle for political and economic legitimacy.

Revised and enlarged, this edition includes a new chapter that carries the story through the American Revolution, the War for Independence, and the creation of the Confederation. It includes additional material on the frontier, the Southwest and the Caribbean, the slave trade, religion, science and technology, and ecology, along with maps drawn especially for this edition. The bibliographical essay, one of the most admired features of the first edition, has been expanded and brought up to date. Wide-ranging in scope, inclusive in content, The Brave New World continues to provide professors, students, and historians with an engaging and accessible history of early North America.

Contents:

The first Americans

Europe in the age of discovery, 1400-1500

The Spanish century, 1492-1588

Rivals for the northland : England and France in America

The planter colonies

A new England

The middle colonies

The critical years, 1675-1700

The empires reinvented, 1660-1763

Provincial people and places in the eighteenth century

Common pastimes and elite pursuits

Mercantilism and markets

The last war and the lost peace, 1754-1763

A nation in the womb of time, 1764-1775

Independence, war, and republicanism, 1776-1783.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-518) and index.

ISBN:

0801884837

OCLC:

64442763

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