Converging Worlds Text and Sourcebook Bundle

Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, Text and Sources
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-99561-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Medienkombination, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Gewicht: 16987 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breen, Louise A.

Breen, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Beginnings
1. European Ambitions and Early Contacts: Diverse Styles of Colonization, 1492-1700, Timothy Walker

Document 1: Treaty between Spain and Portugal concluded at Tordesillas: June 7, 1494, Spain and Portugal make their claims to the "New" World
Document 2: "The Requirement," The Spanish way of announcing their intention to take control, 1512
Document 3: Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte: June 11, 1578, Queen Elizabeth issues a patent to Humphrey Gilbert
Document 4: Charter to Sir Wawlter Raleigh: 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh receives the Roanoke patent
Document 5: Charter of the Dutch West India Company: 1621, The States General of the Netherlands establishes the Dutch West India Company,
2. Tentative Testimonies: Indigenous and Spanish Accounts of the Conquest and Colonization of new Spain, 1100-1650, Heather McCrea

Document 1: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas,1542
Document 2: The New Laws of the Indies, Spain enrages colonists with "new laws" that protect Indians, 1542
Document 3: Bernal Diaz remembers the Conquest
Document 4: Florentine Codex account of the Massacre at Cholula

3. Indians of North America: First Encounters, Michael Oberg

Document 1: "Of the Nature and manners of the People," Thomas Harriot reports on the native people at Roanoke, 1588
Document 2: Henry Hudson arrives at Manhattan, 1609
Document 3: Excerpts from Of Plimoth Plantation, William Bradford comments on an epidemic among native peoples of New England, 1634

II. Regions

4. The Chesapeake Bay, L.H. Roper

Document 1: Letter of John Rolfe, 1614, A Jamestown planter asks permission to marry a native woman
Document 2: Letter of John Rolfe, 1620, An Englishman writes the Virginia Company with news of Jamestown, 1620
Document 3: Letter from Charles I to Governor and Council of Virginia, Charles I takes the Governor and Council of Virginia to task, 1637
Document 4: Virginians complain about the founding of Maryland and the actions of their governor, 1635
Document 5: The Declaration of the People against Sir William Berkeley, and present Governors of Virginia, A rebellious colonist denounces royal governor William Berkeley, 1676
Document 6: Laws on Slave Code, Virginians develop laws on slavery, 1661-1705

5. New England, Richard Gildrie

Document 1: Excerpt from A Model of Christian Charity,John Winthrop encourages and instructs colonists traveling to New England on "Christian Charitie," 1630
Document 2: Excerpt from The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam, A minister warns against the dangers of religious toleration, 1647
Document 3: Letter from Israel Stoughton to John Winthrop, Militia officer Israel Stoughton envisions Pequot women captured in war as servants, 1637
Document 4: Excerpt from Lion Gardner’s Relation of the Pequot Warres, Miantonomi’s Speech, The Narragansett sachem Miantonomi tries to create a pan-Indian union, early 1640s
Document 5: Excerpt from The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,An English war captive recalls her suffering and the workings of providence during King Philip’s War, 1682
Document 6: Passage from the Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, The Massachusetts General Court legislates against the immoral behaviors thought to have "provoked" God to allow New Englanders to suffer Indian violence, 1675
Document 7: Excerpt from Gookin’s History of Christian Indians, An Englishman voices sympathy for the suffering of Indians during King Philip’s War, 1677

6. The Caribbean Islands: British Trade, Settlement and Colonization, James Robertson

Document 1: Barbadians discover and punish a plotted slave rebellion, 1675
Document 2: Report of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Steward, A ship master complains of being robbed by Spanish sloops, 1730
Document 3: Selection from the Minutes of the Provincial Council, A patriot planter from Georgia advises his son to leave Jamaica, 1776
Document 4: Letter from Sir Ba

Über Autor(innen)

Louise A. Breen is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University. She is the author of Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692.