Product Description

Accompanied by maps, contemporary illustrations, chronologies, documents, and a fully updated and expanded bibliography, this comprehensive and readable history of the colonial period offers a fascinating analysis of the evolution of a new and distinctive society.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #342352 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-30
• Original language: English, German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

Review
"In touch with the past and in touch with the times, Richard Middleton′s third edition of his history of Colonial America expands and improves upon its predecessors, making it easily the best text available for classroom use. In addition to its fluency and clarity – characteristics he brings from earlier editions – this iteration offers new insights based on the most recent scholarship and a coverage expanded to include discussions of the French and Spanish colonies on the continent that later became a part of the United States. A good book that just keeps getting better!" John J. McCusker, Trinity University

From the Back Cover
The thirteen North American colonies established by Great Britain eventually formed the nucleus of the United States. This outstanding book describes the history of these colonies, both individually and collectively. Since its first publication in 1992 it has become the established textbook for students of this period in American history.

The third edition, revised throughout and substantially expanded, now includes a chapter on the Spanish in Florida, New Mexico, and Texas, together with an account of the French settlements in Louisiana.

Accompanied by maps, contemporary illustrations, chronologies, documents, and a fully updated and expanded bibliography, this comprehensive and readable history of the colonial period offers a fascinating analysis of the evolution of a new and distinctive society.

About the Author

Richard Middleton is Reader in American History at The Queen′s University, Belfast. He is the author of The Bells of Victory: The Pitt–Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years′ War: 1757–1762 (1985).

Customer Reviews

Unfortunately ....
Unfortunately the writing in this book is written in an astoundingly formulaic dry text-book manner. Fortunately it's packed full of facts about colonial America ...

Apart from his see-saw style of presenting things this isn't a bad book. It's certainly exhaustive. I felt it could have centred more on the plight of native Americans and Africans that play such an important part in American history. It is very dry though and at some points headbangingly tedious.

A definitive guide to the colonial period!
Having done a "Colonial America" module at university, I have to say that I don't think I would have got through the year if it hadn't been for this book.

There is nothing this book doesn't cover from the first groups of settlers to arrive in America, to the War of Independence. Perhaps not a book you'd read before bed for pleasure, but there's a wealth of information that will give you more than you need if you're looking for something related to the colonial era.

Essential.