Introduction: The Enterprise of the Indies.

Part II: The First English Settlements: Cities on Hills and Seashores.

Part III: The Puritan Dream.

Part IV: The Restoration.

Part V: The Empire of the North Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century.

Part VI: The Eighteenth Century: From the St Lawrence to Savannah.

Part VII: The Colonial Golden Age.

Part VIII: Why, Then, Independence?.

The Significance of the War.

L'Envoi.

Chronologies.

Bibliographies.

Index.