The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the communities, cultures, and colonies that comprised colonial America, with a focus on the processes through which communities were created, destroyed, and recreated that were at the heart of the Atlantic experience.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Atlantic Perspectives
• PART I Spanish Empire; Spanish Influences
• 1 From Monarchy to Empire: Ideologies, Institutions, and the Limits of Spanish Imperial Sovereignty, 1492–1700 - Alexander Ponsen
• 2 “The Oversight of King Henry VII”: Imperial Envy and the Making of British America - Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Bradley J. Dixon
• 3 Indo-Hispano Borderlands in the Americas: Entanglements, North and South - Bianca Brigidi and James F. Brooks
• PART II Unfree Labor
• 4 Labor, Empire, and the State: The English Imperial Experience in the Seventeenth Century - Abigail L. Swingen
• 5 The Early English Caribbean: Conflict, the Census, and Control - Jenny Shaw
• 6 The Development of Slavery in the British Americas - Justin Roberts
• PART III British Colonial Developments and the Fates of Indigenous Polities
• 7 Spiritual Giants, Worldly Empires: Indigenous Peoples and New England to the 1680s - Neal Salisbury
• 8 “Vast and Furious”: Understanding an Atlantic New England - Wendy Warren
• 9 The Middle Colonies: Region, Restoration, and Imperial Integration - Ned C. Landsman
• 10 His Own, Their Own: Settler Colonialism, Native Peoples, and Imperial Balances of Power in Eastern North America, 1660–1715 - Daniel K. Richter
• 11 The Chesapeake: Putting Maryland on the Map - Kathleen M. Brown
• 12 Protestantism as Ideology in the British Atlantic World - Carla Gardina Pestana
• 13 Was Knowledge Power?: Science in the British Atlantic - Joyce E. Chaplin
• PART IV Competition and Imperial Frontiers
• 14 Defying Mercantilism: Dutch Interimperial Trade in the Atlantic World - [Wim or Willem?]
• 15 Atlantic, Western, and Continental Early America - Paul W. Mapp
• 16 Native-European Interactions in North America and the Trade in Furs - Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis
• 17 Dismantling the Dream of “France's Peru”: Indian and African Influence on the Development of Early Colonial Louisiana - Elizabeth Ellis
• PART V Revolutions
• 18 How to Lose an Empire: British Misperceptions of the Sinews of the Transatlantic System - Andrew Shankman and Ignacio Gallup-Diaz
• 19 The Revolutionary Black Atlantic: From Royalists to Revolutionaries - Jane Landers