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Book SynopsisAmerica's colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14, 1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often overlapping among the colonists, between the colonists and the original inhabitants, between the colonists and other imperial European peoples, and between the colonists and the mother country. As conflicts were endemic, so too were struggles for power.This study reveals the reasons for, stages, and results of these conflicts. The dynamic driving this history are two inseparable transformations as English subjects morphed into American citizens, and the core American cultural values morphed from communitarianism and theocracy into individualism and humanism. These developments in turn were shaped by the changing ways that the colonists governed, made money, waged war, worshipped, thought, wrote, and loved. Extraordinary individuals
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Ends and Origins Chapter 1: Power Chapter 2: Imperialism Chapter 3: Jamestown Chapter 4: Plymouth Part II: Seventeenth Century Chapter 5: Developments Chapter 6: Wars Part III: Eighteenth Century Chapter 7: Developments Chapter 8: Wars Part IV: Turning Points Chapter 9: Conquests Chapter 10: Resistance Chapter 11: Liberty
