Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Colonial American history is one of the many subjects discussed in fifth grade. This ebook collection can be added as your child’s supplementary learning material for improved understanding of the subject. Each page is made complete with amazing visuals to tickle your child’s photographic memory. Grab a copy today.
by Alison Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games's engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies...
by Various, Susan Imbarato
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in...
The First American Cookbook
A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This facsimile of the first American-written cookbook published in the United States is not only a first in cookbook literature, but a historic document. It reveals the rich variety of food Colonial Americans enjoyed, their tastes, cooking and eating habits, even their colorful language.
Author Amelia...
The Philadelphia Country House
Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century,...
Colonial American History Stories - 1763 – 1769
Timeline of United States History, #4
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Description
Colonial American History Stories - 1763 – 1769 contains dozens of history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1663 with the first issue of the Georgia Gazette and ends with George Washington’s petition for the land promised soldiers who fought in the French and Indian...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Colonial America was the result of the efforts of Europeans who came to America to maximize the opportunity for their own nation in terms of wealth and to mark their presence all over the world.
On the Rim of the Caribbean
Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents?
In...
In This Remote Country
French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities....
The Fisherman's Cause
Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
This book examines the connections between the commercial fishing industry in colonial America and the American Revolution, Christopher P. Magra places the origins and progress of this formative event in a wider Atlantic context. The Fisherman's Cause utilizes extensive research from archives in the...
Robert Love's Warnings
Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
In colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the moral and legal basis of the practice...
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But...
The Dividing Paths
Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1995
Focusing on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers, this book traces the two cultures and their interactions from 1680, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when the Cherokees first signed a treaty with the United States. Hatley retrieves...
Lives of Fort de Chartres
Commandants, Soldiers, and Civilians in French Illinois, 1720–1770
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017
Fort de Chartres, built in 1719-1720 in the heart of what would become the American Midwest, embodied French colonial power for half a century. Lives of Fort de Chartres, by David MacDonald, details the French colonial experience in...