Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
America's Three Regimes
A New Political History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as...
by Milad Doroudian
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
The American experiment has shown the world that freedom, and above all the pursuit of happiness have not always been pristine roads, rather ones of turbulence and immense complexity. From the Colonial period, up to the so called "Gilded Age" the American people suffered through the persecutions...
An Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina,...
by Richard R. Beeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On the eve of the American Revolution there existed throughout the British-American colonial world a variety of contradictory expectations about the political process. Not only was there disagreement over the responsibilities of voters and candidates, confusion extended beyond elections to the relationship...
by John Fiske
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian who wrote letters to Charles Darwin and became a voluminous writer of histories near the end of his life. The largest part of his life was devoted to the study of history, but at an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him to...
Backwoods Utopias
The Sectarian Origins and the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
The new society that the world awaited might yet be born in the humble guise of a backwoods village. This was the belief shared by the many groups which moved into the American frontier to create experimental communities—communities which they hoped would be models for revolutionary changes in religion,...
John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic
Catholicism in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003
Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoon—a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of America’s most influential and overlooked founding fathers. Witherspoon was an active member of the Continental Congress and was the...
America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations
America’s Forgotten History, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
History is written by the victors. But do the victors in America's forgotten debate really have it right? Do they even think about whether it is America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garrison state? American's Forgotten History questions standard understanding from a constitutionalist point...
The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers
A Shifting Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Gathering the attention and excitement of American colonists from Boston to Charleston, the religious revival of the 1740s traditionally known as the First Great Awakening provided colonial newspaper printers with their first story of transcolonial importance. At the time of the Awakening, American...
Northern Armageddon
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A huge, ambitious re-creation of the eighteenth-century Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the pivotal battle in the Seven Years’ War (1754–1763) to win control of the trans-Appalachian region of North America, a battle consisting of the British and American colonists on one side and the French...
by Jordan Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
“Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
*Explains Arnold's achievements for the Americans, his treason, and how he has been remembered. *Includes pictures of Arnold and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents. Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline...
by Arthur W. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
First published in the early 20th century, this book contributed significantly to an understanding of the forces at work in the evolution of family institutions in the United States. The first of a three-volume series, the text describes the American family as a product primarily of European folkways,...
The New England Soul
Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book." - Journal of American History "Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has...