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Colonial North America and the Atlantic world : a history in documents
Title
Colonial North America and the Atlantic world : a history in documents / [edited by] Brett Rushforth, Paul W. Mapp.
ISBN
9780132342377
0132342375
Published
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.
Physical Description
x, 339 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Partial contents
Native North America
Huron creation story
Coronado visits a pueblo town
The de Soto expedition in the southeast
Europeans and the new world
Marco Polo describes the riches of Asia
Columbus reaches the New World
William Bradford describes an outbreak of smallpox
New Spain
The requerimiento
A soldier recalls the Spanish entrance into Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)
An Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico
Spanish priest Bartolomé de Las Casas condemns cruelty toward the Indians
The Spanish frontier
Cabeza De Vaca's southwestern odyssey
Pueblo Indians discuss the Pueblo revolt
Canada and Iroquoia
French explorer Jacques Cartier encounters an Iroquoian village
Champlain describes the introduction of firearms into Indian warfare
Jesuit Jean De Brebeuf discusses life among the Hurons
Virginia
A plan for English colonization of North America
The first colonists arrive at Jamestown
Captain John Smith describes Virginia Indian society
Chesapeake colonies
Frontier planters appeal for protection from Indian attacks
Virginia's governor accuses his enemies of treason
Nathaniel Bacon justifies rebellion
The Virginia Slave Code of 1705
The diary of Virginia planter William Byrd II
New England
Winthrop's vision of New England
Anne Hutchinson challenges Massachusetts orthodoxy
Cotton Mather wrestles with witchcraft
Puritans and Indians
English and Indians establish an alliance
Minister Daniel Gookin discusses the dilemmas confronting Christian Indians
Mary Rowlandson recounts her captivity
The West Indies
A portrait of Barbados
Pirates of the Caribbean
Carolina
Colonial leader Thomas Nairne discusses Carolina's wartime geopolitics
Missionary Francis LeJau discusses Christianity and slavery
A description of eighteenth-century South Carolina
Middle colonies
Dutch ministers discuss New Netherland
Stuyvesant explains the fall of New Netherland
William Penn promotes Pennsylvania
Welsh immigrant life in Pennsylvania.
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