Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Damned Women
Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 1999
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft...
by Olivier Bernier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
"Only those who lived before the Revolution know how sweet life can be," Talleyrand wrote, many years before the event. Those who dip into Olivier Bernier's lively pages will discover just how sweet, how deep the pleasure, how precious the privilege. For he has populated this book with real...
To Begin the World Anew
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their extraordinary creativity.
The opening...
Empires at War
The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister...
by Edward Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Continuing the biographical approach to teaching history found in his Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston draws a more in-depth picture of the development of the United States using the stories of the living and breathing Americans who made it all happen.
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of...
George Washington
The Founding Father of the US Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of George Washington in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of George Washington. Recognised as one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, George Washington was the country’s...
Commerce by a Frozen Sea
Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American native peoples and Europeans. During the eighteenth century, the natives of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their European trading partners were brought together by an increasingly popular trade in furs,...
by Peter J. Marshall, David B. Manuel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Did Columbus believe that God called him west to undiscovered lands? Does American democracy owe its inception to the handful of Pilgrims that settled at Plymouth? If, indeed, there was a specific, divine call upon this nation, is it still valid today?
The Light and the Glory answers these...
A Man of Distinction Among Them
Alexander McKee and British-Indian Affairs Along the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A Man of Distinction among Them represents an important step in under standing the complexities surrounding the early history of the Ohio Country and the Old Northwest and provides the clearest and most comprehensive portrait of a central figure in that history: Alexander McKee.
Fathered by...
Journey to the Sun
Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West.
The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Plymouth colony, also called New Plymouth, was a 16th century English Colony located at the fringe of Massachusetts Bay. Often known as the first settlement of Europeans on English terrain the formation of this colony (starting from 1620) has a story of its own. The story starts when a bunch of English...
A Path in the Mighty Waters
Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound for Georgia. Two hundred and twenty-seven passengers boarded two merchant ships accompanied by a British naval vessel and began a transformative voyage across the Atlantic that would last nearly five months. Chronicling...
God, War, and Providence
The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused...