Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Jack P. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776....
Separated by Their Sex
Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors,...
Under the Cope of Heaven
Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds an abundance of religious vitality through the...
Brethren by Nature
New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England...
Ireland in the Virginian Sea
Colonialism in the British Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting...
In Small Things Forgotten
An Archaeology of Early American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The Mayflower was the great ship that brought the Pilgrims to a new land. It was big but there were a lot of people on board so there was hardly enough room for everyone. You don't encounter the same problem when you're traveling on ships these days. But for some time, can you image what it must have been like to travel in the Mayflower?
Long Before Stonewall
Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways....
Pursuits of Happiness
The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial...
by Carol F. Karlsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1998
"A pioneer work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft."--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University
Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts from the journals of two of the Mayflower's passengers*Includes a Table of Contents. “By God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved. And the appearance of...
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture.
Walsh focuses on...
Trade, Land, Power
The Struggle for Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.
Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
*Perfect for ages 7-9.*Includes pictures.*Includes excerpts from the journals of two of the Mayflower's passengers.“By God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved. And the appearance of it much...