Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168).
Contents
A general description of America / Edmund Burke -- Spain and the conquest of Utopia / Eric Wolf -- The colonial idea in England / Howard Mumford Jones -- The French empire in Canada : image of the old world / Kenneth D. McRae -- The Baroque society of Hispanic America / Irving A. Leonard -- An experiment in 'feudalism' : French Canada in the seventeenth century / Sigmund Diamond -- English colonial society in the eighteenth century / Jackson Turner Main -- Spanish Indian policy in colonial America : the ordering of society / J.H. Parry -- The French, the English, and the Indian / Francis Parkman -- Spanish American culture : the University of San Carlos de Guatemala in the eighteenth century / John Tate Lanning -- Science and observation in eighteenth-century English America / Louis B. Wright.