Chapter 4: Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America

Chapter 4: Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America focuses on:


 * Growth of the colonies
 * European interactions on and influence in the colonies
 * Religious revivals
 * Conflict between political ideologies (Parliament Vs. Colonial Assemblies)
 * Pre-Revolutionary colonial wars

Section Headings

 * 1) Introduction: Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd (95)
 * 2) Growth and Diversity (96)
 * 3) Scots-Irish Flee English Opression (97)
 * 4) Germans Search for a Better Life (97)
 * 5) Convict Settlers (98)
 * 6) Native Americans Sake Out a Middle Ground (99)
 * 7) Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century (103)
 * 8) Conquering the Northern Frontier (103)
 * 9) Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands (104)
 * 10) The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture (105)
 * 11) Provincial Cities (105)
 * 12) American Enlightenment (106)
 * 13) Benjamin Franklin (107)
 * 14) Economic Transformation (108)
 * 15) Birth of a Consumer Society (109)
 * 16) Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies (110)
 * 17) The Great Awakening (110)
 * 18) The Voice of Evangelical Religion (111)
 * 19) Clash of Political Cultures (113)
 * 20) The English Constitution (113)
 * 21) The Reality of British Politics (113)
 * 22) Governing the Colonies: The American Experience (114)
 * 23) Colonial Assemblies (115)
 * 24) Century of Imperial War (116)
 * 25) King William's and Queen Anne's War (116)
 * 26) King George's War and its Aftermath (118)
 * 27) Albany Congress and Braddock's Defeat (120)
 * 28) Seven Years' War (121)
 * 29) Perceptions of War (122)
 * 30) Conclusion: Rule Britannia? (123)