Chapter 4: Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America focuses on:
- Growth of the colonies
- European interactions on and influence in the colonies
- Religious revivals
- Conflict between political ideologies (Parliament Vs. Colonial Assemblies)
- Pre-Revolutionary colonial wars
Section Headings[]
- Introduction: Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd (95)
- Growth and Diversity (96)
- Scots-Irish Flee English Opression (97)
- Germans Search for a Better Life (97)
- Convict Settlers (98)
- Native Americans Sake Out a Middle Ground (99)
- Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century (103)
- Conquering the Northern Frontier (103)
- Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands (104)
- The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture (105)
- Provincial Cities (105)
- American Enlightenment (106)
- Benjamin Franklin (107)
- Economic Transformation (108)
- Birth of a Consumer Society (109)
- Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies (110)
- The Great Awakening (110)
- The Voice of Evangelical Religion (111)
- Clash of Political Cultures (113)
- The English Constitution (113)
- The Reality of British Politics (113)
- Governing the Colonies: The American Experience (114)
- Colonial Assemblies (115)
- Century of Imperial War (116)
- King William's and Queen Anne's War (116)
- King George's War and its Aftermath (118)
- Albany Congress and Braddock's Defeat (120)
- Seven Years' War (121)
- Perceptions of War (122)
- Conclusion: Rule Britannia? (123)