Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Rise of the Representative
Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects...
The Chesapeake House
Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and...
by Warren M. Billings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Sir William Berkeley (1605--1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American self-rule. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat,...
The Lives in Objects
Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion...
Roanoke – The language and history of EARLY COLONIAL AMERICA:
From Raleigh and Jamestown to Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony (1515–1632) – Book 2 –
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
While the true direction of the Transpontine Series is to get to the heart of US history, this second book starts off with the 80 or so years of exploration and colonisation that led to the first attempts by the English to gain a foothold in North America. It will look at how the first (very much...
Ariel's Ecology
Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal...
Colonial America
From Jamestown to Yorktown
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Colonial America deals with the development of the American colonies from the first permanent settlement at Jamestown to the independence of the thirteen which became the USA. Instead of anticipating the birth of a nation, as is too often the case, Mary K. Geiter and W. A. Speck treat the history of...
by William R. Nester
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
America’s colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14, 1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often overlapping among the colonists, between...
by British Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. But what brought about the Revolution? The trouble began after the...
Brides from Bridewell
Female Felons Sent to Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
Brides from Bridewell is the story of the female felons from England and France who were sent to Colonial America to serve their prison sentences.
It sets forth the harsh, often inhuman, penal conditions then prevailing in those lands, and the fact that these thousands of feminine felons constituted...
A Blessed Company
Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental...
Captives and Cousins
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.
Indigenous...
Connecticut Unscathed
Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging...
Colonial American History Stories - 1753 – 1763
Timeline of United States History, #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Colonial American History Stories - 1753 – 1763 contains almost 300 history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1655 with the performance of the first documented play performed in British North America and ends with the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1752. The historical...