Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Francis Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
In the colonization of North America, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden each sought a share. By the eighteenth century, only Great Britain and France remained as rivals for the heart of the continent. Three times, beginning in 1690, warfare arose between New France and New...
Changes in the Land
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist,...
George Washington et la fondation des États-Unis
Le président à l’origine de l’identité américaine
Language: French
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur George Washington en moins d’une heure !Reconnu comme l’un des pères fondateurs des États-Unis d’Amérique, George Washington a participé à la naissance d’une nation. De la guerre de Sept Ans contre les Français à la définition du protectionnisme...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010
Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Award
Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place
"A compelling and well-annotated...
The First Frontier
The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America'
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.
Here is...
by Calista Plummer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
George Washington was the first President of the United States. We know a lot of things about this man. Some of them are true. Some of them are not true.For many years, people thought George chopped down a cherry tree as a boy, but it looks like this story is not true.Here are some things that are...
George Washington
La creación de los Estados Unidos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre George Washington, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Descubrir más sobre el personaje de George Washington y su vida antes y después de llegar a la política,...
Daniel Boone
Un pionero estadounidense a la conquista del oeste
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Daniel Boone, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Aprender más sobre Daniel Boone, que ya desde su más tierna infancia muestra un gusto por la caza y la aventura,...
Between Slavery and Freedom
Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the...
by Kerry Walters
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
The Underground Railroad provides the richest portrayal yet of the first large scale act of interracial collaboration in the United States, mapping out the complex network of routes and safe stations that made escape from slavery in the American South possible. Kerry Walters' stirring...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Penn Reading Project Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Explore the memoirs of one of the most inventive Americans in history.
A fascinating and unconventionally educated man, Benjamin Franklin imparts—in his own words—wisdom and remarkable life lessons on the art of living with great personal integrity. Taken from John Bigelow’s carefully...
"Myne Owne Ground"
Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed...
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves
Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent...