xvii, 774 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The age of discovery -- Background for settlement -- The Chesapeake colonies -- The New England way -- Puritans and Cavaliers: 1640-1676 -- The proprietaries -- Wars and insurrections: 1675-1690 -- America at the end of the Seventeenth century -- The empire takes shape: 1689-1713 -- A half century of expansion: 1713-1763 -- The American mind in the Eighteenth century -- Life in Eighteenth-century America -- Imperial reorganization: 1763-1770 -- The road to independence: 1770-1776 -- War and peace: 1776-1783 -- An age of experiments: 1775-1788 -- Appendix: chief magistrates of the colonies and state.
