Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Philip J. Greven, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family writing of the 17th and 18th centuries—Philip Greven, the distinguished scholar of colonial history explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared, and the...
The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman,...
The First American Revolution
Before Lexington and Concord
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The original rebels: “Brings into clear focus events and identities of ordinary people who should share the historic limelight with the Founding Fathers.” —Publishers Weekly
According to the traditional telling, the American Revolution began with “the shot heard ’round the world.”...
by Joseph Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the Battle...
The King's Three Faces
The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break...
Escaping Servitude
A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Escaping Servitude is the story of indentured servants in early Virginia protesting with their feet. Breaking with historical orthodoxy insisting that Bacon’s Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake and that colonial Virginians achieved racial hegemony in the eighteenth...
The Persistence of Empire
British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal...
Washington's Undersea War
The secret development of the submarine in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
For most, mention of the American Revolution prompts images of British redcoats facing long lines of Colonial irregulars. However, much of the war took place in clandestine alleyways, lonely roads and even the ocean deep. We invite you to experience the war through the eyes of undercover operatives...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Early Modern era was a transformative period in the history of warfare. Armies became larger and increasingly professionalized, while gunpowder weaponry changed warfare forever with new firearms and artillery. The Early Modern Wars 15001775 the third volume in the Encyclopedia of Warfare Series...
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
*Weaves the lives and work of the Adams family into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes several quotes and writings from Samuel, John, John Quincy and Abigail. *Includes pictures of the Adams family and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Bibliography for...
Point Pleasant 1774
Prelude to the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. Following increased tensions and a series of incidents between the American settlers and the natives, Dunmore, the last colonial...
Frontier Country
The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood...
by Joseph S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In 1917, renowned economist Joseph S. Davis published Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations, which included Corporations in the American Colonies, a lengthy treatise on the history of corporations dating all the way back to colonial times. As Davis notes at the beginning of his work,...