A Companion to Colonial America [Paperback]

A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.

• 
  
• Coverage includes politics, religion, migration, gender, ecology, and many others.

About the Contributors vii

Introduction x

1 Pre-Contact: The Evidence from Archaeology 1
David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith

2 The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization 25
Carole Shammas

3 Ecology 44
John Brooke

4 Migration and Settlement 76
Ned Landsman

5 Empire 99
Richard R. Johnson

6 Indian History During the English Colonial Era 118
James H. Merrell

7 African Americans 138
Philip D. Morgan

8 Economy 172
Margaret Newell

9 Women and Gender 194
Carol Karlsen

10 Children and Parents 236
Holly Brewer

11 Class 259
Greg Nobles

12 Colonial Politics 288
Alan Tully

13 Regionalism 311
Michael Zuckerman

14 Consumption 334
Cary Carson

15 Religion 366
Marilyn Westerkamp