The colonization of North America, 1492-1783 / by Herbert Eugene Bolton, and Thomas Maitland Marshall.

Index: pp. 557-609

Cont.: Founding of the colonies-- The background and the discovery -- The founding of New Spain (1492-1543) -- The expansion of New Spain (1543-1609) -- The establishment of the French colonies (1500-1700) -- The beginning of English expansion (1485-1603) -- The Chesapeake Bay and insular colornies (1603-1640) -- The beginnings of New England (1606-1640) -- The English colonies during the revolutionary period (1640-1660) -- The Dutch and Swedish colonies (1609-1664) -- The Old English colonies under the later Stuarts (1660-1689) -- Expansion under the later Stuarts (1660-1689) -- The English mainland colonies at the close of the seventeenth century -- EXPANSION AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT -- The Spanish advance in the seventeenth century -- The wars of the English and Spanish seccessions (1684-1713) -- The French in Louisiana and the far northwest (1699-1762) -- Texas, Primeria Alta, and the Franco-Spanish border conflict (1687-1763) -- The English advance into the Piedmont (1715-1750) -- English colonial society in the middle eighteenth century -- The Enlish colonial system (1689-1763) -- A quarter century of conflict: the expulsion of the French (1715-1763) -- The Russian advance: the occupation of Alta California and Louisiana by Spain (1763-1783) -- The new British possessions (1763-1783) -- THE REVOLT OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES -- The controversy of the English colonies with the home government (1763-1775) -- From Lexington to independence (1775-1776) -- The struggle for the middle states (1776-1777) -- The war as an international contest (1778-1781) -- The closing years of the revolution (1778-1783) -- Governmental development during the revolution.