Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Neighbors and Strangers
Law and Community in Early Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes...
Anglo-Native Virginia
Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virginia. Virginians were unique in their interaction with Native peoples in part because of their tributary system, a practice that became codified with the...
David Franks
Colonial Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
David Franks, a colonial businessman in Philadelphia, was one of the most important figures in American Jewish history in the eighteenth century. This extensively researched biography illuminates not only Franks's personal dealings, but also his business life. Franks was involved with Indian trade,...
Louisiana
Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties,...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the “Golden Age” of piracy in the Americas.
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history...
Hybrid Constitutions
Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals...
by Alice Morse Earle
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Could you identify a sausage gun if you had to? How about a plate warmer or a well-sweep? Any idea how the term log-rolling really originated? Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911), a prolific popular historian and the first American to chronicle everyday life and customs of the colonial era, describes...
Betrayals
Fort William Henry and the "Massacre"
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1990
On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "parole of honor" offered by General Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their families and servants to Fort Edward...
Old Mobile
Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“Higginbotham has given to American historiography a microcosmic view of one of the earliest and most important outposts in the colonial new world. The Latin South can henceforth not be ignored.” – Alabama Historical Quarterly
“The definitive account . . . superbly recounted.” –...
Counting Bodies
Population in Colonial American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for "population" in the sense of numbers of people, nor agreement that monarchs should count...
Colonial Complexions
Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals...
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed...
Captain John Smith
A Select Edition of His Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colorful writers to visit America in the colonial period. While his first venture was in Virginia, some of his most important work concerned New England and the colonial enterprise as a whole.
The publication in 1986 of Philip Barbour's...
Colonial Mediascapes
Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions...