Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Native Americans and the European encounter -- The Spanish Empire in America -- The French Empire in America -- Virginia and the Chesapeake -- New England -- The middle colonies -- The colonial South and Caribbean -- Africans and Atlantic world slavery -- The glorious Revolution and th elinks of empire in English America -- The great awakening -- The Anglo-American backcountry -- The early American West -- The Seven Years' War -- Conclusion: the crisis of the British Empire in America -- Notes -- Index.