European ambitions and early contacts : diverse styles of colonization, 1492-1700 / Timothy Walker -- Tentative testimonies : indigenous and Spanish accounts of the conquest and colonization of New Spain, 1100-1650 / Heather McCrea -- Indians of North America : first encounters / Michael Oberg -- The Chesapeake Bay / L.H. Roper -- New England / Richard Gildrie -- The Caribbean islands : British trade, settlement and colonization / James Robertson -- Middle Colonies / Wayne Bodle -- The Carolinas : shaping of a slave society / Noeleen McIlvanna -- Transformations : Salem witchcraft tragedy, war and empire / Louise Breen -- Purgatory : interpreting Christian missions and North American Indians / David J. Silverman -- The slave trade and slavery / Ty Reese -- Women, family, and gender / Linda Sturtz -- Backcountries / Warren Hofstra -- Spiritual awakenings / Kenneth Minkema -- Enlightenment / Ned Landsman -- Ambitions : expansion of New France / Robert Morissey -- French and indian War / James Piecuch -- Afterward : A revolutionary era / Walter Sargent.
