A lost world and a world of loss : Native Americans and British colonists before 1700 / Martha K. Robinson -- "A mean and brutal business" : indentured servitude in early America / Matthew Harris -- Puritan life / Michael S. Carter -- "A loving mother and obedient wife" : white women in colonial America / Kirsten E. Phimister -- Slave life in colonial America / Kathryn S. Koo -- Urban workers / Karen O'Brien -- "A variety of peoples" : the non-English composition of British America / Ian J. Aebel -- Native America, 1700-1775 / Dixie Haggard -- "Great multitudes flocking after him" : the great awakening among common people / John Howard Smith -- The margins of empire : Anglo-American westward migration and settlement in the colonial period / David P. Dewar.
Summary
Reveals the day-to-day lives of the British colonists who laid the foundation for what became the United States.