Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
An emigrant French aristocrat-turned-farmer, Jean de Crèvecoeur was granted New York citizenship in 1765 and became a landowner in Orange County. There, he wrote about his farming experiences and interpreted the nation's development in a series of charming and keenly observant essay-length letters...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders.
Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplines
Combines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished...
White Devil
A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
"A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England--both in alliance with Native American tribes--fought each other in a series of bloody battles...
Thanksgiving
The Pilgrims' First Year in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.
They bowed their heads to give thanks.
The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion,...
1607
Jamestown and the New World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
1607 vividly tells the story of the founding of Jamestown, recounting the situation of the original Indian inhabitants, the arrival of the British settlers 400 years ago, the building of the town, and modern excavations at the site. Along the way, we meet such familiar figures as King James, John...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a short-lived military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. Established in 1643, its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies against the Native Americans....
by David Barton
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Colonial George Washington's perilous experiences in the French and Indian War are chronicled in this riveting account of God's providence and protection. The only officer on horseback to avoid being shot down, young Washington openly attributed his miraculous escape from harm to the intervention of...
by Allan Greer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
This book surveys the social history of New France. For more than a century, until the British conquest of 1759-60, France held sway over a major portion of the North American continent. In this vast territory several unique colonial societies emerged, societies which in many respects mirrored ancien...
White People, Indians, and Highlanders
Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century,...
The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of North America
1763 and the Transformation of North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences as Indians and Europeans settlers and frontiersmen all struggled to adapt to new...
Roots of Conflict
British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary...
Slave Counterpoint
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these...
by Wendy Warren
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**A New York Times Editor’s Choice
"This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight**
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s...
A Little Commonwealth
Family Life in Plymouth Colony
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1999
The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos. This groundbreaking study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artifacts,...