Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284).
A doomsday book for the periphery / Bernard Bailyn -- Convergence: development of an American society, 1720-80 / Jack P. Greene -- "The customes of our countrey": Indians and colonists in early America / James H. Merrell -- Time, space, and the evolution of Afro-American society on British mainland North America / Ira Berlin -- The plural origins of American revivalism / John Butler -- Church and home in mid-eighteenth-century Virginia / Rhys Isaac -- Martha Ballard and her girls: women's work in eighteenth-century Maine / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- "Baubles of Britain": the American and consumer revolutions of the eighteenth century / T.H. Breen -- Beneficiaries of catastrophe: the English colonists in America / John M. Murrin.