Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
*Includes Revere's firsthand account of his midnight ride.*Includes Longfellow's famous poem, Paul Revere's Ride.*Includes pictures of Revere and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "Out started six officers, seized...
Hurricane of Independence
The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane season
On September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial...
The Colonization of North America
1492-1783: Conflict of the Great European Powers in the New World - Portugal, Spain, England, France, the Netherlands & Russia (Geographical Discoveries, the Establishment of Colonies &Wars)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book represents an attempt to bring into one account the story of European expansion in North America down to 1783. The authors wrote this book in response to a clear demand for a text written from the standpoint of North America as a whole, and giving a more adequate treatment of the colonies...
by Louis B. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
If the origin of the colonial period was accidental, the ending was not. The representatives of the thirteen colonies who approved the Declaration of Independence in 1776 charted a collision course, aware of the obstacles in their path and the risks they were taking. The events that led to their decision...
Brothers and Friends
Kinship in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
By following key families in Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Anglo-American societies from the Seven Years’ War through 1845, this study illustrates how kinship networks—forged out of natal, marital, or fictive kinship relationships—enabled and directed the actions of their members as they decided...
Siblings
Brothers and Sisters in American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance. Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent-child relations. Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book...
Resilient Cultures
America's Native Peoples Confront European Colonialization 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book provides a comparative perspective of the impact of early European colonization on the native peoples of the Americas. It covers the character of the indigenous cultures before contact, and then addresses the impact ofand creative ways in which they adapted tothe establishment of colonies...
Braddock's Defeat
The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela River and while making their way to besiege...
Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom
The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist Archibald Simpson (1734–1795) to examine the history of evangelical Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic during the last half of the eighteenth century. Although he grew up in the evangelical heartland of Scotland...
Beyond 1492
Encounters in Colonial North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1992
In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary...
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
An illuminating study of America’s agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras
In the eighteenth century, three†‘quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America’s farmers...
Enslaved Women in America
From Colonial Times to Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
West offers an overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by using a broad chronological perspective, considering themes and issues in their lives from the colonial era through to the end of the Civil War. She compares the lives of enslaved women—sometimes exceptional and sometimes ordinary—across...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
*Weaves the lives of John and Samuel Adams into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes several quotes and writings from both John and Samuel. *Analyzes their relationship, political collaboration and later political rivalry*Includes pictures of John, Samuel, and important people, places,...
by John Schlotterbeck
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This work examines patterns of everyday life in the colonial South from European contact to 1770, documenting how they evolved over time and differences across lines of geography, nationality, ethnicity, religion, race, gender, and class.
• A chronology of key dates in history of the colonial...