Colonial America

Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.

Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography
Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and women
Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial development
Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies

Author Biography

Richard Middleton was for many years head of the AmericanStudies department at Queen s University, Belfast. He is theauthor of several books, including The Bells of Victory: ThePitt Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years War(1985), and Pontiac s War: Its Causes, Course andConsequences, 1763-1765 (2007). Now retired, Middleton iscurrently working on a book about the American War ofIndependence. Anne Lombard is Associate Professor, California StateUniversity, San Marcos. She is the author of Making Manhood:Growing Up Male in Colonial New England (2003). Her currentresearch examines riots and other forms of collective violence bywhite men in British America during the eighteenth century.