Colonial America: A History, 1565 - 1776

By C. Richard Middleton

Book Overview

Accompanied by maps, contemporary illustrations, chronologies, documents, and a fully updated and expanded bibliography, this comprehensive and readable history of the colonial period offers a fascinating analysis of the evolution of a new and distinctive society. Fully revised and expanded third edition, with an updated bibliography Includes new chapter on the Spanish in Florida, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as an account of the French settlements in Louisiana Provides dozens of maps, illustrations, chronologies, and documents

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631221417
• ISBN13: 9780631221418
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Introduction

Middleton's book, Colonial America, is not your typical 'textbook.' He paints a fascinating panorama of this country's tenuous beginnings and carries the story up to, but does not include, the Revolution. There is sufficient detail so the reader can easily see why the Revolution was looming, but not so many details that one goes to sleep wading through them. This book reads like a novel and I heartily recommend it to anyone remotely interested in the early history of the United States.