Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this text presents an interpretive account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans during the colonial and revolutionary eras. It reveals the crucial interconnections between North America's many peoples— illustrating the ease of their interactions in the first two centuries of European and African presence—to develop a fuller, deeper understanding of the nation's underpinnings.

Table of Contents:
                   Introduction   1.         Before Columbus   Cultural Evolution Regional Cultures The Iroquois Pre-Contact Population The Native American World View   2.         Europeans Reach North America   Spanish and Portuguese Expansion into the Americas The Spanish Conquest and the Atlantic Exchange England Enters the Colonial Race Early Spanish Incursions in North America The French Penetration of North America English Images of the Native Americans   3.         Cultures Meet on the Chesapeake   The Failed Colony at Roanoke The Reestablishment of Virginia Reorganization and Tobacco English-Indian Relations The War of 1622 and Its Aftermath   4.         Cultures Meet in the Northeast   The Dutch in the Northeast Puritanism The Elusive Utopia Puritans and Indians The Question of Land The Pequot War   5.          The Coastal Societies: Resistance, Accommodation, and Defeat   Metacom’s War Bacon’s Rebellion The Colonization of South Carolina Carolina-Indian Relations The Tuscarora and Yarmasee Wars Quaker-Indian Relations in Penn’s “Holy Experiment”   6.          Europe, Africa, and the Americas   Coping with Enslavement Regional Variations of North American Slaver Slave Resistance and Rebellion Black culture in colonial America   7.          The African Ordeal Under Slavery   Coping with Enslavement Regional Variations of North American Slavery Slave Resistance and Rebellion Black Culture in Colonial America   8.          The Transformation of Euro-American Society   Eighteenth-Century European Immigrants Land, Growth, and Changing Values The Cities Changing Social Structure The Great Awakening   9.          Wars for Empire and Indian Strategies for Survival   Iroquois Diplomacy Creek Diplomacy Cherokee Diplomacy Transformations in Indian society Cultural Persistence   10.        The Seven Years’ War and Its Aftermath   Population Increase The Seven Years' War Indian Strategies in the Seven years’ War Indian-White Relations After 1763 The Colonizers’ Society After   11.        The Tri-colored American Revolution   The Abolitionist Impulse Struggling for Liberty Exodus of Pro-British Slaves The War Comes to an End Leaders of the Free Blacks The Red Revolution   12.        The Mixing of Peoples   Indian-European Contact White-Black Intermixture African-Indian Contact Cultural Interaction of Red, White, and Black   Bibliographical Essay   Indian culture European-Indian Contact African-American History Rivalry for North America Social and Political Change The Tri-colored American Revolution   Index