Red, white, and black : the peoples of early North America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nash, Gary B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Pearson, [2014]
Edition:Seventh edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Before Columbus. Cultural evolution
  • Regional cultures
  • The Iroquois
  • Pre-Colombian population
  • The Native American worldview
  • Europeans reach North America. Spanish and Portuguese expansion into the Americas
  • England enters the colonial race
  • Early Spanish incursions in North America
  • The French penetration of North America
  • Imagining Native Americans
  • Cultures meet on the Chesapeake. The failed colony at Roanoke
  • Reestablishing Virginia
  • Reorganization and tobacco
  • English-Indian relations
  • The War of 1622 and its aftermath
  • Cultures meet in the Northeast. The Dutch in the Northeast
  • Puritanism
  • The elusive Utopia
  • Puritans and Indians
  • The question of land
  • The Pequot War
  • The coastal societies : resistance, accommodation, and defeat. Metacom's war
  • Bacon's rebellion
  • Colonizing South Carolina
  • Carolina-Indian relations
  • The Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars
  • Penn's "holy experiment" and Quaker-Indian relations
  • Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The Atlantic slave system
  • Capture and transport of slaves
  • Slavery in the North American colonies
  • Slavery in North and South America
  • The African ordeal under slavery. Coping with enslavement
  • Regional variations of North American slavery
  • Resistance and rebellion
  • Black culture in colonial America
  • The transformation of Euro-American society. Eighteenth-century European immigrants
  • Land, growth, and changing values
  • The cities
  • Changing social structure
  • The great awakening
  • Wars for empire and Indian strategies for survival. Iroquois diplomacy
  • Creek diplomacy
  • Cherokee diplomacy
  • Transformations in Indian society
  • Cultural persistence
  • The Seven Years' War and its aftermath. Population increase
  • The Seven Years' War
  • Indian strategies in the Seven Years'War
  • Indian-white relations after 1763
  • The colonizers' society after 1763
  • The tricolored American Revolution. The abolitionist impulse
  • Struggling for liberty
  • Exodus of pro-British slaves
  • The war comes to an end
  • Free Black leaders
  • The Indians' revolution
  • The mixing of peoples. Indian-European engagement
  • Across the color line
  • Between African and Indian
  • Blending and bleeding : the mixing of red, white, and black.