Peter Charles Hoffer, Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia, has published many books, including Sensory Worlds in Early America, Law and People in Colonial America, and The Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, all three published by Johns Hopkins.

• 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. -- Daniel P. Kotzin Teaching History 2008

Peter Charles Hoffer, Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia, has published many books, including Sensory Worlds in Early America, Law and People in Colonial America, and The Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, all three published by Johns Hopkins.

• 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. -- Daniel P. Kotzin Teaching History 2008

Peter Charles Hoffer, Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia, has published many books, including Sensory Worlds in Early America, Law and People in Colonial America, and The Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, all three published by Johns Hopkins.

• 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. -- Daniel P. Kotzin Teaching History 2008