Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xii
4. PREFACE xv
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi
6. PART ONE OUTREACH: THE CREATION OF AN ATLANTIC WORLD
7. Prologue 3
8. 1. America as a Continuation 4
9. 2. Iberian Initiatives 8
10. 3. The Creation of New Spain 11
11. 4. The Luso-African Contribution 17
12. 5. Initiatives in the North and Huguenot Enterprise 24
13. 6. The Emergence of the English 28
14. 7. Implantations from Northwest Europe 35
15. 8. Generalizations: European Source Regions 43
16. 9. Generalizations: Sectors and Circuits of the Atlantic World 55
17. 10. Generalizations: Geographic Models of Interaction 65
18. PART TWO : IMPLANTATIONS : THE CREATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY
19. Prologue 79
20. 1. Peoples and Places 80
21. 2. Northern Coasts: Beginnings 87
22. 3. New England 91
23. 4. Northern Entryways: The St. Lawrence 109
24. 5. Northern Entryways: Hudson Bay 117
25. 6. Northern Entryways: The Hudson River 119
26. 7. Northern Entryways: The Delaware 129
27. 8. Pennsylvania 131
28. 9. Emergence of Greater Virginia 144
29. 10. Tropical Islands 160
30. 11. Carolina and the Carolinas 172
31. 12. Florida 191
32. 13. Louisiana 193
33. 14. Texas and the Lower Rio Grande 202
34. 15. Encounter and Change: Europeans and Indians 205
35. 16. Migration and Change: Europeans Overseas 213
36. 17. Enslavement and Change: Africans in America 226
37. 18. Defining Areas 231
38. 19. The Europeanized Area: Populations and Regional Societies, circa 1750 244
39. PART THREE: REORGANIZATIONS: THE CREATION OF AN AMERICAN MATRIX
40. Prologue 257
41. 1. A Geographical Transect of the Atlantic World 258
42. 2. The Great War and Its Alterations of Empires 267
43. 3. Reorganization: Northern America 270
44. 4. Reorganization: Tropical America 280
45. 5. Reorganization: Interior America 284
46. 6. Expansions, 1750-1775 288
47. 7. Divergence 295
48. 8. Disruption 307
49. 9. Reorganization: British North America 323
50. 10. Destabilization: Tropical America 332
51. 11. Unification: Forming the United States 338
52. 12. Emergence of a Federal Nation 348
53. 13. Generalizations: The Disintegration of Empires 370
54. 14. Generalizations: The Problems of Federations 385
55. 15. Generalizations: Nation-building 395
56. 16. Generalizations: Expansionism, American-style 407
57. PART FOUR : CONTEXT: THE UNITED STATES, CIRCA 1800
58. Prologue 421
59. 1. The United States in North America 422
60. 2. The United States and Europe 428
61. 3. E Pluribus Unum, in Uno Plures? 438
62. Sources of Quotations 455
63. Bibliography 461
64. INDEX 481