Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians
Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
At the...
To the Vast and Beautiful Land
Anglo Migration into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s–1820s
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
To the Vast and Beautiful Land gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original...
A Temperate Empire
Making Climate Change in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Controversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of English colonists in North America,...
The Road to Black Ned's Forge
A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward Tarr, he became the first free black landowner west of the Blue Ridge. Tarr established a blacksmith shop on the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to...
Colonial American History Stories –1665 - 1753
Timeline of United States History, #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Colonial American History Stories - 1665 – 1753 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...
by James Van Horn Melton
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier...
by Sarah Rivett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the...
Colonial American History Stories - 1770 – 1774
Timeline of United States History, #5
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Colonial American History Stories - 1770 – 1774features an historical chronicle of the pre-revolutionary years of the United States. The timeline presents a journal of events that led to the conflict between the British and their North American colonists. The events, some obscure and almost forgotten, played a role in the developing drama that eventually led to American independence.
The Killing of Reverend Kay
A Hidden Murder in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
It is the early fall of 1755 in the backcountry of Virginia. The British army has suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of the French and their Indian allies in the opening battle of the French and Indian War, leaving the frontier in flames and open to attacks from the enemy. William Kay, a young...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of...
Natchez Country
Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions in Natchez Country had taken a turn...
Zamumo's Gifts
Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy...
by J. William Frost
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
The Quaker Family in Colonial America is a book by J. William Frost.
Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas
Empires, Texts, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as "creoles" who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary...