Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Fledgling Province
Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province. In addition to black slavery, religion, and education, he examines...
Constructing Floridians
Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award "Compelling stories of people whose ideas about themselves changed as they struggled to understand new people and circumstances. . . . A rich tale of cross-cultural divisions...
by Sherry Norfolk, Bobby Norfolk
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Virginia Giant, a one-man army! Peter Francisco was believed to have had almost super-human strength. According to legend, George Washington said, "Without him we would have lost two crucial battles, perhaps the war, and with it our freedom." Francisco, a Portuguese immigrant, was raised outside...
Cultures in Conflict
The Seven Years' War in North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
The Seven Years' War (1754–1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts...
A People's Army
Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A People's Army documents the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the...
Coming to America (Second Edition)
A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
One of our generation’s best historical accounts of immigration in the United States from the earliest colonial days
“Encyclopedic in scope, yet lively and provocative…. One of those rare book that will serve experts and the general public equally well.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Former...
George Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
"George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twenty-eighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes us on a journey from a look at Washington's times to his Virginia breeding to his life in colonial America. Wilson looks at...
New World Orders
Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time, historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework flexible enough to incorporate the sweeping narratives of imperial...
by John Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
John Lawson (1674 – 1711) was a British explorer, naturalist and writer. He played an important role in the history of colonial North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, publicizing his expeditions in a book, and founding two settlements in North Carolina.
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by Lawrence N. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
America’s most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full sweep of the city’s history from its founding through statehood.
by Maura Jane Farrelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Using fears of Catholicism as a mechanism through which to explore the contours of Anglo-American understandings of freedom, Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620–1860 reveals the ironic role that anti-Catholicism played in defining and sustaining some of the core values of American identity, values...
For God, King, and People
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within...
by Richard Kluger
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." —Bill Keller, New York Times Book Review
In 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor...
Pathways from Slavery
British and Colonial Mobilizations in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Seymour Drescher’s regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself. He has discussed the impact of economic and cultural factors on human behaviour and has shown that historical evidence does not lead...