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The Brave New World

A History of Early America
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The Brave New World covers the span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to creation of the new nation. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this comprehensive, lively narrative brings together the most recent scholarship on the colonial and revolutionary eras, Native Americans, slavery, politics, war, and the daily lives of ordinary people. The revised, enlarged edition includes a new chapter carrying the story through the American Revolution, the War for Independence, and the creation of the Confederation. Additional material on the frontier, the Southwest and the Caribbean, the slave trade, religion, science and technology, and ecology broadens the text, and maps drawn especially for this edition will enable readers to follow the story more closely. The bibliographical essay, one of the most admired features of the first edition, has been expanded and brought up to date. Peter Charles Hoffer combines the Atlantic Rim scholarship with a Continental perspective, illuminating early America from all angles—from its first settlers to the Spanish Century, from African slavery to the Salem witchcraft cases, from prayer and drinking practices to the development of complex economies, from the colonies' fight for freedom to an infant nation's struggle for political and economic legitimacy. Wide-ranging in scope, inclusive in content, the revised edition of The Brave New World continues to provide professors, students, and historians with an engaging and accessible history of early North America.

PrefacePart I: Worlds in Motion1. The First Americans2. Europe in the Age of Discovery, 1400–15003. The Spanish Century, 1492–15884. Rivals for the Northland: England and France in America5. The Planter Colonies6. A New England7. The Middle Colonies8. The Critical Years, 1675–1700Part II: From Provinces of Empire to a New Nation9. The Empires Reinvented, 1660–176310. Provincial People and Places in the Eighteenth Century11. Common Pastimes and Elite Pursuits12. Mercantilism and Markets13. The Last War and the Lost Peace, 1754–176314. A Nation in the Womb of Time, 1764–177515. Independence, War, and Republicanism, 1776–1783Epilogue: The Way AheadBibliographic EssayIndex

""Instructors of courses in colonial America should consider this thorough textbook... Hoffer does a remarkable job.""

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