Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Martha W. McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about the colony's earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived, resulting in the most comprehensive collection of annotated biographical sketches yet published. From...
New World Faiths
Religion in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
Many people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion. However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and Africans had joined Native Americans, Puritans, and numerous other Protestants in the colonies. Jon Butler launches his narrative with a description of the state of religious...
by William Lowell Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In 1733, John Paul Zenger began to print the New York Journal, the newspaper that was to change Zenger's life and the direction of journalism in colonial America. The material published in the Journal so incensed Sir William Cosby, the royal governor, that Zenger was arrested for seditious libel....
Advancing Empire
English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613–1688
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to control the transport and production of exotic commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, as well...
First Generations
Women in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and...
by Steven Woodworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
The Intellectual Construction of America
Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows...
Riding with George
Sportsmanship & Chivalry in the Making of America's First President
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Long before George Washington was a president or general, he was a sportsman. Born in 1732, he had a physique and aspirations that were tailor made for his age, one in which displays of physical prowess were essential to recognition in society. At six feet two inches and with a penchant for rambunctious...
How Books Came to America
The Rise of the American Book Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make...
Switching Sides
How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For most historians living through the fascist and communist tyrannies that culminated in World War II and the Cold War, the Salem witch trials signified the threat to truth and individual integrity posed by mass ideological movements. Work on the trials produced in this era, including Arthur Miller’s...
by Cotton Mather
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In this fascinating account of witches and devils in colonial America, the renowned and influential minister of Boston's Old North Church attempts to justify his role in the Salem witch trials. A true believer in the devil's battle to get converts in Salem and other Massachusetts towns during the late...
by Dr. Jeannine Mizingou
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
In The Spirit of ’76, the storyline takes the reader through the true events of the American Revolution. This junior novel of historical fiction dramatizes what it was like to be alive at such trying and significant times. Young readers fascinated with colonial times or unfamiliar with the War...
Massacre on the Merrimack
Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her...
The Unredeemed Captive
A Family Story from Early America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704,...