Explore and compare the colonial and national histories of the three countries that emerge in North America.
Identify the colonial holdings of different European powers on the North American continent.
Compare and contrast the features of emerging North American nations in the nineteenth century.
Discuss the role of different commercial, labor, and property regimes in North America in the colonial period and nineteenth century.
Continue with Brescia and Super, North America, but from now on we will be jumping around, reading parts of chapters (usually in about 5 page chunks) that take the material by topic chronologically. We start Sparks, have one book chapter (pdf provided) and three articles in the Library collection. There is also a film. For those of you using the Kindle or other electronic version of Brescia