Product Description: The late seventeenth century in America was important as an era of transition from rough settlement to established provincial life. It was a time when social, political, and economic problems caused strains that led to religious doubt, personal anxiety, riot, and one of the worst rebellions in the colonies...read more

Product Description: Explores issues that have been critical to scholarship in the history of the frontier and the American West over two generations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history of priacy, follows the brief career of Captain Kidd, and explains why seventeenth century men became pirates