pt. 1. The planting of English settlements in North America-- the seventeenth century. I. Englishmen expand into the New World. Tudor expansion : the transition from medieval to modern history / A.L. Rowse -- Elizabethan politics and colonial enterprise / Louis B. Wright -- The labor problem at Jamestown, 1607-18 / Edmund S. Morgan -- Indian cultural adjustment to European civilization / Nancy Oestreich Lurie -- II. The Puritan experience. Errand into the wilderness / Perry Miller -- The Puritans and sex / Edmund S. Morgan -- The mirror of Puritan authority / Darrett B. Rutman -- Family structure in seventeenth-century Andover, Massachusetts / Philip J. Greven, Jr. -- III. Indentured servitude and slavery. The planters of colonial Virginia / Thomas J. Wertenbaker -- The servant in the plantations / Abbot Emerson Smith -- Slavery and the genesis of American race prejudice / Carl N. Degler -- Unthinking decision : enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700 / Winthrop D. Jordan --
IV. Emerging empire and colonial rebellions. Politics and social structure in Virginia / Bernard Bailyn -- The refusal of Massachusetts to become a part of the British colonial system / Viola F. Barnes -- The Dominion of New England / Richard S. Dunn -- The Glorious Revolution and the pattern of imperial relationships / Lawrence H. Leder --
pt. 2. The maturing American provinces-- the eighteenth century. V. Economic opportunity and the structure of society. Economic democracy / Robert E. Brown -- Economic base and social structure : the Northern Chesapeake in the eighteenth century / Aubrey C. Land -- Economic development and social structure in colonial Boston / James A. Henretta -- Contemporary views of class / Jackson Turner Main -- VI. The nature of provincial politics. The role of the lower houses of assembly in eighteenth century politics / Jack P. Greene -- The colonial electorate / Chilton Williamson -- Swilling the planters with bumbo / Charles S. Sydnor -- Popular uprisings and civil authority in eighteenth -century America / Pauline Maier -- VII. Religion, piety, and the Great Awakening. Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening / Perry Miller -- Religion, finance, and democracy in Massachusetts : the town of Norman as a case study / J.M. Bumsted -- The crisis of the churches in the middle colonies, 1720-1750 / Martin E. Lodge -- Religion and the American mind / Alan Heimert --
VII. A "new" American culture. Shattered dreams and unexpected accomplishment / Brooke Hindle -- The culture of early Pennsylvania / Frederick B. Tolles -- The gospel of work and the aristocracy of trade / Louis B. Wright -- The genesis of an "American" nationalism / Max Savelle.