Historisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg Curt-Engelhorn-Professur für Amerikanische Geschichte Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg Phone: 542276 o. 542477 Email: manfred.berg@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de Office Hours: Tuesday, 11.00-13.00 hrs. or by appointment, Historisches Seminar Raum 041 Lecture Course Summer Semester 2015: The European Conquest of North America and the Establishment of Colonial Societies Hörsaal des Historischen Seminars/Lecture Hall Zeit: Monday, 11.00 13.00 Hrs. Syllabus 1st Lecture: 13 April 2015: Introduction; Pre-Columbian North American Cultures 2 nd Lecture: 20 April 2015: The Beginnings of European Expansion in North America 3 rd Lecture: 27 April 2015: Spanish, French, and Dutch Colonization in North America 4 th Lecture: 4 May 2015: The Founding of Virginia 5 th Lecture: 11 May 2015: The Puritan Colonies of New England 6 th Lecture: 18 May 2015: The Middle Colonies and the Lower South 7 th Lecture: 1 June 2015: The Development of a Slave Society 8 th Lecture: 8 June 2015: The North American Colonies and British Imperial Policy 9 th Lecture: 15 June 2015: Government and Politics in 18 th Century British North America 10 th Lecture: 22 June 2015: Colonial Society in the 18 th Century 11 th Lecture: 29 June 2015: Religion and Culture 12 th Lecture: 6 July 2015: The Colonial Frontier and Imperial War 13 th Lecture: 13 July 2015: Toward Independence, 1764-1776 14 th Lecture: 20 July 2010: Exams
2 Selected Bibliography Reference Works and Documentary Collections: Barbour, Philip L., ed. The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631. Chapel Hill, 1986. Behringer, Wolfgang, ed. Lust an der Geschichte: Amerika. Die Entdeckung und Entstehung einer Neuen Welt. München - Zürich, 1992. Berg, Manfred. Geschichte der USA. Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte Bd. 42. München, 2013. Calloway, Colin G., ed. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America. Boston and New York, 1994. Dunn, Richard S., James Savage, and Laetitia Yeandle, eds. The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649. Cambridge, Mass., 1996. Faragher, John Mack, ed. The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America. New York, 1990. Fischer, Kirsten and Eric Hinderaker, eds. Colonial American History. Malden, Mass., 2002. Gallay, Alan, ed. Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763. An Encyclopedia. New York, 1996. Greene, Jack P., ed. Great Britain and the American Colonies 1606-1763. Columbia, SC, 1970. Haines, Michael R. and Richard H. Steckel, eds. A Population History of North America (New York, 2000). Jaycox, Faith, The Colonial Era: An Eyewitness History. New York, 2002. Kupperman, Karen O., ed. Major Problems in American Colonial History. Boston - New York, 2000. Quinn, David B., ed. New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612. 5 vols. New York, 1979. Vickers, Daniel, ed. A Companion to Colonial America. Malden, 2003. Wellenreuther, Hermann. Der Aufstieg des ersten Britischen Weltreiches: England und seine nordamerikanischen Kolonien 1660-1763. Düsseldorf, 1987.
3 Monographs, Edited Volumes, and Articles: Adair, John. Puritans. Religion and Politics in Seventeenth Century England and America. Phoenix Mill, 1998. Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York, 2000. Armitage, David and M. J. Braddick. The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800. 2nd ed. New York, 2009. Axtell, James. Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America. New York, 2001. Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History. Concepts and Contours. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2005..The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America : The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675. New York, 2012. Bailyn, Bernard, and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Strangers within the Realm. Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Chapel Hill, 1991. Berg, Manfred. Die Ursprünge Der Sklaverei in Nordamerika. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 54, (2006): 741-60. Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone. The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Mass., 1998. Bitterli, Urs. Alte Welt - neue Welt. Formen des europäisch-überseeischen Kulturkontakts vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. München, 1986. Bitterli, Urs. Die Entdeckung Amerikas. Von Kolumbus bis Alexander von Humboldt. München, 1991. Bond, Edward L. Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Preaching Religion and Community. Lanham, MD, 2005. Bonomi, Patricia. Under the Cope of Heaven. Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. New York, 1986. Breen, Timothy. H., and Timothy D. Hall. Colonial America in an Atlantic World: A Story of Creative Interaction. New York, 2004. Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonia Virginia. Chapel Hill, N.C, 1996. Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. Cambridge, Mass., 2000. Calloway, Colin G. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America. Baltimore and London, 1997.
4 Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York, 1983. Daniels, John D. The Indian Population of North America in 1492. William and Mary Quarterly 49 (1992): 298-320. Fischer, David Hackett. Albion s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York, 1989. Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca, NY, 2002. Geiter, Mary K. William Penn. Harlow, UK, 2000. Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen, ed. Colonial Encounters: Essays in Early American History and Culture. Heidelberg, 2003. Greene, Jack P., ed. Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era. Baltimore, 1984. Hall, David D. A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England. New York, 2011.. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Beliefs in Early New England. New York, 1989. Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Brave New World: A History of Early America. Baltimore, 2006.. Sensory Worlds in Early America. Baltimore, 2003.. The Devil's Disciple: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Baltimore,1996. Innes, Stephen. Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. New York,1995. Katz, Stanley, ed. Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social development. New York, 1984. Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York, 1999. Kupperman, Karen O. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca and London, 2000. Lambert, Frank. Inventing the Great Awakening. Princeton, 1999. McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America. Chapel Hill, 1985. McFarlane, Anthony. The British in the Americas 1480-1815. London, 1994. Mancall, Peter C., and James H. Merrell, eds. American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850. New York, 2000. Middleton, Richard. Colonial America: A History 1565-1776. Oxford, 2002.
5 Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery - American Freedom. The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York, 1975. Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. New York, 1976. Nagl, Dominik. No Part of the Mother Country, but Distinct Dominions: Rechtstransfer, Staatsbildung und Governance in England, Massachusetts und South Carolina, 1630-1769. Berlin, 2013. Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black The Peoples of Early America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1974. Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York, 2003.. Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World. Ithaca, NY, 2011. Pestana, Carla Gardina. A Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World. Philadelphia, 2009. Quinn, David Beers. Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606. Chapel Hill, 1985. Reich, Jerome R. Colonial America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989. Reinhard, Wolfgang. Geschichte der europäischen Expansion: Die Neue Welt. Stuttgart, 1985. Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge, MA, 2001. Sarson, Steven. British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire. New York, 2005. Shoemaker, Nancy. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. New York, 2004. Stannard, David E. American Holocaust. The Conquest of the New World. New York, 1992. Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settlement of North America. London, 2002. Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival. A Population History Since 1492. Norman and London, 1987. Ward, Harry M. Colonial America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991. Wellenreuther, Hermann. Niedergang und Aufstieg: Geschichte Nordamerikas vom Beginn der Besiedlung bis zum Ausgang des 17. Jahrhunderts. Münster-Hamburg-London, 2000.
6 Wellenreuther, Hermann. Ausbildung und Neubildung. Die Geschichte Nordamerikas vom Ausgang des 17. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ausbruch der Amerikanischen Revolution. Münster- Hamburg-London, 2001. White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. 2 ed. New York, 2011. Wood, Betty. Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776. Lanham, Md., 2005.