1. The history Native Americans from before the arrival of the Europeans and Africans until the American Civil War / Neal Salisbury -- 2. The African bacground to American colonization / John K. Thornton -- 3. The European background / E.L. Jones -- 4. The settlement and growth of the colonies : population / David W. Galenson -- 5. The northern colonies : economic and society, 1600-1775 / Daniel Vickers -- 6. Economic and social development of the South / Russell R. Menard -- 7. Economic and social development of the British West Indies, from settlement to ca. 1850 / B.W. Higman -- 8. British mercantilist policies and the American colonies / John J. McCusker -- 9. The revolution, the Constitution, and the new nation / Cathy Matson
