Accompanied by maps, contemporary illustrations, chronologies, documents, and a fully updated and expanded bibliography, this comprehensive and readable history of the colonial period offers a fascinating analysis of the evolution of a new and distinctive society.

• Fully revised and expanded third edition, with an updated bibliography



• Includes new chapter on the Spanish in Florida, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as an account of the French settlements in Louisiana



• Provides dozens of maps, illustrations, chronologies, and documents