Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. launching imperial projects
5. Chapter 1. The Polemics of Possession: Spain on America, Circa 1550 19
6. Chapter 2. Cruelty and Religious Justifications for Conquest in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic 37
7. Chapter 3. Religion and National Distinction in the Early Modern Atlantic 58
8. Chapter 4. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians 70
9. Part II. Colonial Accommodations
10. Chapter 5. Catholic Saints in Spain’s Atlantic Empire 87
11. Chapter 6. A Wandering Jesuit in Europe and America: Father Chaumonot Finds a Home 106
12. Chapter 7. From London to Nonantum: Mission Literature in the Transatlantic English World 123
13. Chapter 8. Dreams Clash: The War over Authorized Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century French Missions 143
14. Chapter 9. “For Each and Every House to Wish for Peace”: Christoph Saur’s High German American Almanac and the French and Indian War in Pennsylvania 154
15. Part III. Violent Encounters
16. Chapter 10. Reconfiguring Martyrdom in the Colonial Context: Marie de l’Incarnation 175
17. Chapter 11. Book of Suffering, Suffering Book: The Mennonite Martyrs’ Mirror and the Translation of Martyrdom in Colonial America 191
18. Chapter 12. Iconoclasm Without Icons? The Destruction of Sacred Objects in Colonial North America 216
19. Final Reflections: Spenser and the End of the British Empire 238
20. Notes 257
21. List of Contributors 319
22. Index 323
23. Acknowledgments 333