Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Saints and Sectaries
Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This brilliant, dramatic reconstruction of the Puritan mind in action, informed with psychological and sociological insights, provides a fresh understanding of Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and gives her controversy with the Puritan Saints a new dimension...
Meeting House and Counting House
The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The "holy experiment" of the Quakers involved political hegemony and economic wealth. Gradually the Quakers realized that they had become involved in the compromises fatal to the spiritual integrity of the Society of Friends itself. The political crisis of 1756 hastened this realization,...
Ways of Writing
The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt...
When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield
Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought—the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement—the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefield—as...
White Savage
William Johnson and the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
A provocative new biography of the man who forged America's alliance with the Iroquois
William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved...
Stuyvesant Bound
An Essay on Loss Across Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his responsibilities, ultimately reappraising the view of Stuyvesant long held by the majority...
by Carla Gardina Pestana
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. It also honors the scholarship of Gary Nash, who has contributed much of the leading work...
The Widows' Might
Widowhood and Gender in Early British America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In early American society, one’s identity was determined in large part by gender. The ways in which men and women engaged with their communities were generally not equal: married women fell under the legal control of their husbands, who handled all negotiations with the outside world, as well as...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake captures a variety of experiences in the early modern Chesapeake illustrating the race, class, ethnic, and gender diversity that created a unique New World experience. Students and scholars will find this book essential to understanding the colonial Chesapeake.
by Peter Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well...
Women Before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic...
Carolina in Crisis
Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant...
by Richard A. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John Winthrop would have proved difficult even had these puritans inhabited the colonies alone, but this was not the...
by David Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
David Dobson has extracted data about the 150,000 Scots who emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War from a wide variety of sources, including family and estate papers, testamentary and probate records, burgh muniments, sasine and deed registers, Sheriff's Court records, Court of Session and...