Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Colonial South Carolina
A Political History, 1663-1763
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This absorbing appraisal of colonial South Carolina political history is developed in three parts: The Age of the Goose Creek Men," covering 1670-1712; "Breakdown and Recovery--in which the central dispute was over local currency--1712-43; and "The Rise of the Commons House of Assembly, 1743-63."
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Borderland Narratives
Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Broadening the idea of "borderlands" beyond its traditional geographic meaning, this volume features new ways of characterizing the political, cultural, religious, and racial fluidity of early America. It extends the concept to regions not typically seen as borderlands and demonstrates how...
Governed by a Spirit of Opposition
The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central government, private individuals working in civic associations of their own making shouldered broad responsibility for education, poverty relief, church governance,...
Salvation in New England
Selections from the Sermons of the First Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The sermon as crafted by the early New England preachers was the most prominent literary form of its day, yet the earliest Puritan texts have as a rule been available only in rare-book collections. This anthology of sermons of the first generation of preachers fills a serious gap in American literature....
Modernity and Its Other
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with...
by Mary Stanard
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
After the thrilling scenes through which the Colony of Virginia passed during its earliest days, the most portentous, the most dramatic, the most picturesque event of its seventeenth century history was the insurrection known as "Bacon's Rebellion." All writers upon the history of Virginia...
Domesticating Slavery
The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning...
Adapting to a New World
English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values,...
From Chicaza to Chickasaw
The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using...
Imperial Entanglements
Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Imperial Entanglements chronicles the history of the Haudenosaunee Iroquois in the eighteenth century, a dramatic period during which they became further entangled in a burgeoning market economy, participated in imperial warfare, and encountered a waxing British Empire. Rescuing the Seven Years' War...
by John Bach McMaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
It has long been the custom to begin the history of our country with the discovery of the New World by Columbus. To some extent this is both wise and necessary; but in following it in this instance the attempt has been made to treat the colonial period as the childhood of the United States; to have...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This is the heralded “definitive history” of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 years in the Land of Sunshine. Twenty-three leading historians, assembled by renowned scholar Michael...
Contact Points
American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas...
by Peter McCandless
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations...