Richard Middleton & Anne Lombard 
Colonial America 
A History to 1763

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

Table of Content

Preface.

Part I: Old and New Worlds Meet.

1. The Peoples of Eastern North America: Societies in Transition.

2. The Age of European Exploration.

Part II: The Seventeenth-century Settlements.

3. The English Conquer Virginia, 1607-60.

4. The Conquest Continues: New England, 1620-60.

5. Diverse Colonies: New France, New Netherland, Maryland, and the West Indies.

6. The Restoration Era.

7. The Later Years of Charles II.

8. James II and the Glorious Revolution.

9. The Eras of William and Mary, and Queen Anne.

Part III: The Eighteenth-century: Provinces in a Changing Continent.

10. The Economy and Labor System in British North America.

11. Settler Families and Society.

12. White Women and Gender.

13. British North American Religion, Education, and Culture, 1689-1760.

14. Slavery and the African American Experience, 1689-1760.

15. Expanding Spanish and French Empires in North America.

16. Native American Societies and Cultures, 1689-1760.

17. Immigration and Expansion in British North America, 1714-50.

18. British North American Institutions of Government.

19. Britain, France, and Spain: The Imperial Contest, 1739-63.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the author

RICHARD MIDDLETON was for many years head of the American Studies department at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of several books, including The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years’ War, 1757-1762 (1985) and Pontiac’s War: Its Causes, Course and Consequences, 1763-1765 (2007). Now retired, Middleton is currently working on a book about the American War of Independence.

ANNE LOMBARD is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos. She is the author of Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England (2003). Her current research examines riots and other forms of collective violence by white men in British America during the eighteenth century.