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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2006], ©2006.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indigenous peoples of North America > History.
America > Discovery and exploration.
Physical Description:x, 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book
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.