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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPART I — CREATING AN ATLANTIC WORLD: THREE WORLDS MEET 1. Origins of an Atlantic World 2. Trade and Violence in an Emerging Atlantic World, 1500—1625 PART II — THE CONTEST FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SETTLEMENT 3. Winners and Losers on the Tobacco Coast, 1607—1660 4. Sugar, Slaves, and Profits: The English Contest for a Caribbean Empire 5. Cities on a Hill: Bible Commonwealths in New England, 1620—1660 6. England’s Quest for a Commercial Empire 7. Conflict, Transformation, Realignment PART III — PROVINCES IN A CONTESTED EMPIRE: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 8. Empires of Guns and Goods: North America at the Opening of the Eighteenth Century 9. Shifting Borderlands: Migrations in Eighteenth-Century America 10. The Anglicization of Provincial America 11. Slavery and Empire: African American Cultures in the Colonial British 12. Imperial Competition for the American Market PART IV — AN INDEPENDENT AMERICA IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD 13. Colonial Alienation within the British Empire 14. Crucible of Liberty: Varieties of Independence in the Revolutionary War 15. Independence in an Atlantic World
