Conceived in Liberty
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Conceived in Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard, is a 4-volume series on US history from the Colonial period through the American Revolutionary War.
Table of Contents
Volume 1
- Preface
- Part I: Europe, England, and the New World
- Europe at the Dawn of the Modern Era
- New World, New Land
- Part II: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
- The Virginia Company
- From Company to Royal Colony
- The Social Structure of Virginia: Planters and Farmers
- The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves
- Religion in Virginia
- The Royal Government of Virginia
- British Mercantilism over Virginia
- Relations with the Indians
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Maryland
- The Carolinas
- The Aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion in the Other Southern Colonies
- The Glorious Revolution and its Aftermath
- Virginia After Bacon's Rebellion
- Part III: The Founding of New England
- The Religious Factor
- The Founding of Plymouth Colony
- The Founding of Massachusetts Bay
- The Puritans "Purify": Theocracy in Massachusetts
- Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Roger Williams
- Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Anne Hutchinson
- The Further Settlement of Rhode Island: The Odyssey of Samuell Gorton
- Rhode Island in the 1650s: Roger Williams' Shift from Liberty
- The Planting of Connecticut
- The Seizure of Northern New England
- Joint Action in New England: The Pequot War
- The New England Confederation
- Suppressing Heresy: Massachusetts Persecutes the Quakers
- Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: Disintegration of the Fur Monopoly
- Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Wage and Price Control
- Mercantilism, Merchants, and "Class Conflict"
- Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Subsidized Production
- The Rise of the Fisheries and the Merchants
- Theocracy Begins to Wither: The Half-Way Covenant
- The Decline and the Rigors of Plymouth
- The Restoration Crisis in New England
- Part IV: The Rise and Fall of New Netherland
- The Formation of New Netherland
- Governors and Government
- The Dutch and New Sweden
- New Netherland Persecutes the Quakers
- The Fall and Breakup of New Netherland
- Part V: The Northern Colonies in the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
- The Northern Colonies, 1666-1675
- The Beginning of Andros' Rule in New York
- Further Decline of the Massachusetts Theocracy
- King Philips War
- The Crown Begins the Takeover of New England, 1676-1679
- The Crown Takes over New Hampshire, 1680-1685
- Edward Randolph Versus Massachusetts, 1680-1684
- The Reopening of the Narragansett Claims, 1679-1683
- The Rule of Joseph Dudley and the Council of New England
- New York, 1676-1686
- Turmoil in East New Jersey, 1678-1686
- The Development of West New Jersey
- "The Holy Experiment": The Founding of Pennsylvania, 1681-1690
- The Dominion of New England
- The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1689-1690
- The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1690-1692
- Aftermath in the 1690s: The Salem Witch-Hunt and Stoughton's Rise to Power
- The Liberalism of Lord Bellomont in the Royal Colonies
- The Aftermath of Bellomont
- Rhode Island and Connecticut After the Glorious Revolution
- The Unification of the Jerseys
- Government Returns to Pennsylvania
- The Colonies in the First Decade of the Eighteenth Century
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
Volume 2
- Preface
- Introduction: The Colonies in the Eighteenth Century
- Part I: Developments in the Separate Colonies
- Liberalism in Massachusetts
- Presbyterian Connecticut
- Libertarianism in Rhode Island
- Land Tenure and Land Allocation in New England
- New Hampshire Breaks Free
- The Narragansett Planters
- New York Land Monopoly
- Slavery in New York
- Land Conflicts in New Jersey
- The Ulster Scots
- The Pennsylvania Germans
- Pennsylvania: Quakers and Indians
- The Emergence of Benjamin Franklin
- The Paxton Boys
- The Virginia Land System
- The Virginia Political Structure
- Virginia Tobacco
- Slavery in Virginia
- Indian War in North Carolina
- The North Carolina Proprietary
- Royal Government in North Carolina
- Slavery in South Carolina
- Proprietary Rule in South Carolina
- The Land Question in South Carolina
- Georgia: The "Humanitarian" Colony
- Part II: Intercolonial Developments
- Inflation and the Creation of Paper Money
- The Communication of Ideas: Postal Service and the Freedom of the Press
- Religious Trends in the Colonies
- The Great Awakening
- The Growth of Deism
- The Quakers and the Abolition of Slavery
- The Beginning of the Struggle over American Bishops
- The Growth of Libertarian Thought
- Part III: Relations with Britain
- Assembly Versus Governor
- Mercantilist Restrictions
- King George's War
- Early Phases of the French and Indian War
- The Persecution of the Acadians
- Total War
- The American Colonies and the War
- Concluding Peace
- Administering the Conquests
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index