Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Invention of Free Labor
The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth...
The Divided Dominion
Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility...
From Privileges to Rights
Work and Politics in Colonial New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America.
Tradesmen in New Amsterdam occupied a distinct social...
Crossing the Sound
The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
In seventeenth-century North America, communities on eastern Long Island were an integral part of the tumultuous and dynamic New England region and the larger Atlantic American world. They were created and modified by ideas and traditions that were inherent to life in Atlantic America and were not...
by Bill Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Florida's Old King's Road ran from Georgia south of Jacksonville (the called Cow Ford), to St. Augustine, thru what is now Flagler County Florida and ended in New Symrna on Florida's Atlantic Coast. It was once named one of the most important highways in America. It has vanished.
This is the...
New Men
Manliness in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur wrote, “What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced.” In casting aside their European mores, these...
Memory Lands
King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia...
George Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
A president-to-be chronicles the life and times of the historic first Chief Executive in this insightful biography. Before his entry into politics, Woodrow Wilson was a noted educator and historian, and his erudition shines in this fascinating profile of George Washington's rise to leadership. Wilson...
A Harmony of the Spirits
Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly...
The Secret History of the Jersey Devil
How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster—a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes—that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe...
by Herbert E. Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953) was a distinguished historian who received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. He was a Harrison Fellow while at Pennsylvania. Bolton quickly became an expert on Spanish colonies in the New World. Professor...
Disaster on the Sandusky
The Life of Colonel William Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In this first-ever biography, historian Robert Thompson tells the dramatic story of the life and death of William Crawford, a legendary figure from the violent world of the American colonial frontier, and a man recognized as a martyr by many Americans. Writing what has been described as a “compelling...
by Dr Mary K. Geiter, Professor W.A. Speck
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Did you know that:- the thirteen colonies which became the USA were not the most valuable British possessions in America?- Georgia was not the thirteenth but the fourteenth British colony in North America?- despite the claims in the Declaration of Independence, George III was not a tyrant?Information...
Laboring Women
Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World...