The Search for Liberty: From Origins to Independence, Volume I

1. The New Atlantis.

2. The Columbus Conspiracy: the Sources.

3. The First Americans.

4. The Re-discoverers and Their Achievements.

5. The Wonders of the New World.

Part I: The Admiral Who Rarely Put to Sea - Ralegh and Roanoke.

6. West from the Hispaniola.

7. New Spain.

8. The Bristol Venturers.

9. Men of Devon.

10. The Outer Banks.

11. Stirrers Abroad.

12. French North America.

Part II: The First English Settlements: Cities on Hills and Seashores:.

13. Newfoundland.

14. Trading Companies.

15. Virginia.

16. New England.

17. Bermuda.

18. John Smith, John Rolfe and Christopher Newport.

19. Whose was the Land?.

20. White and Red.

Part III: The Puritan Dream: .

21. The Pilgrim Fathers.

22. Christians and Survivors.

23. The Puritans.

24. The New England Confederation.

25. The Puritan International.

26. Maryland.

27. "The City on the Hill.".

Part IV: The Restoration:.

28. The Return of Exiles.

29. The Rewards.

30. The Doctrine: Calvinism.

31. The Dominion of New England.

32. Witchcraft.

33. The Mathers.

34. Royal Bounty.

Part V: The Empire of the North Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century:.

35. Connecticut and Rhode Island.

36. New York.

37. Pennsylvania.

38. Virginia.

39. The Carolinas North and South.

40. New France.

41. In the King's Name.

42. Colonial Policy.

Part VI: The Eighteenth Century: From the St Lawrence to Savannah:.

43. A Middling and a British People.

44. And a Restless People.

45. The Tidewater.

46. The Chesapeake Economy.

47. Beyond the Fall Line.

48. Boston.

49. New York.

50. The Middle Colonies.

51. The Carolinas.

52. Georgia.

Part VII: The Colonial Golden Age:.

53. How Golden the Age?.

54. Slavery.

55. Education.

56. The Enlightenment.

Part VIII: Why, Then, Independence?.

57. The French and Indian War (1756-1763) and the frontier struggle.

58. The Old Colonial System - cui bono?.

59. The West and The Indians.

60. The Patriot King.

61. The Stamp Act.

62. Riots and Rebellion.

63. "Tyranny" and "Tea Deum.".

64. The First Continental Congress.

65. The War of Independence.

66. The Treaty of Paris.

67. How and Why?.

68. The Legacy.

The Significance of the War.

L'Envoi.

Chronologies.

Bibliographies.

Index.