HIST 254
Colonial American History to 1760 Fall 2017
Division II
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The course will explore the experience of Indian, English, African, and European peoples in the process we know as the colonization of the North American mainland, during the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries. Topics will include the lifeways of native groups and their response to the arrival of newcomers from overseas; the migration of white “settlers” and their founding of new communities; the demographic, social, political, and economic systems that organized their lives; the beginnings and subsequent development of African slavery; gender relations and the life cycle (among the colonizers and their descendants); and, towards the end, the development of a distinctively American cultural style.