Interpreting Colonial America

"Conflicting and contrasting points of view as well as method- ologies are here presented as the reader is asked to confront eight major problem areas in Colonial American history in an anthology which literally brings to life this exciting period in our history. Four sections are concerned with the 17th century, four with the 18th century. All form a chronological chain from the dawning of English interest in the New World to the emerging desire et provincial Americans for more than token equality in the British Empire Why were so many Europeans willing to forsake home for the New World! Why did patterns of genocide rather than those of acculturation evolve out of white Indian relations? Why were black Africans permanently bonded as slaves when whites were not? Scores of such questions are considered from many angles in these readings drawn from books and journal."--Publisher.