Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Wild by Nature
North American Animals Confront Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals—from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison—appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters...
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.
Great Britain’s forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain’s...
by Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The harrowing story of one of America's first and costliest wars—featuring a new foreword by bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick
At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands...
Gathering Together
The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600?1870
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of American history. The book covers nearly three centuries, from the years leading up to the Shawnees’ first European contacts...
The Short Life of Free Georgia
Class and Slavery in the Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia--the last British colony in what became the United States--enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid. The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia created a "Georgia experiment" of...
A Rabble in Arms
Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen during King Philips War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip's War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire's most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip's...
Selling Empire
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly...
by Claudia Durst Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This book presents a unique perspective on life in Colonial England, exposing many misconceptions and depicting how elements of its culture that are typically regarded as marginal—such as the activities of pirates—actually had an extensive impact of the populace.
• Provides readers with...
by Allegra di Bonaventura
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
“A work of astonishing ingenuity, intellectual and emotional depth, and (most of all) brilliant writing.”—John Demos, author of The Unredeemed Captive
In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s...
Errands into the Metropolis
New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Errands into the Metropolis offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and re-shaped by a...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent...
The Washingtons
George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love"
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led
The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very...
The New History in an Old Museum
Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1997
The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through...
The Birth of America
From Before Columbus to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this provocative account of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events, individuals, and themes of this critical period. With vivid descriptions of the societies that people from Europe came from and with an emphasis on what they believed they were going to, Polk introduces the native...