Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Settling the South Carolina Backcountry
The Pressly Family and Life Along Hard Labor Creek, 1767-1850
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
In tracing three generations of a family in the South Carolina backcountry, Nancy Pressly explores how the communities along Hard Labor Creek, located at the crossroads of several major wagon routes, evolved from a newly settled frontier in the 1760s to a remarkable center of wealth and power in the...
by James Otis
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
The writings of James Otis arguably had more influence in America and England before 1774 than those of any other American except John Dickinson. John Adams pointed to Otis as the first man to have plumbed the depths of the argument between Britain and the Anglo-American colonies. Anyone who wishes...
Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries
The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated by math, used scientific analogies and scientific thinking in their political writing,...
Creatures of Empire
How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played...
The Saltwater Frontier
Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Andrew Lipman’s eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact...
Faithful Bodies
Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
In
the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices
played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism
provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between
insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano
Kopelson...
by William Stebbing
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Index
CONTENTS
Preface
List Of Authorities
Corrigenda
I. Genealogy
II. In Search Of A Career (1552-1581)
III. Royal Favour (1581-1582)
IV. Offices And Endowments (1582-1587)
V. Virginia (1583-1587)
VI. Patron And Courtier (1583-1590)
VII....
by Helen Grimm
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Before Martha Washington, there was Sally, Sally Fairfax.
An ambitious woman, thirsting for power, Sally could have married a dozen times before William Fairfax came along but William was the best offer. He had the most money, and he was in line for the title.
Then George saw her for the first time....
by Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is recognized today as a great theologian and philosopher. The historian Perry Miller has called him “one of America’s five or six major artists,” a writer possessed of “an intelligence which, as much as Emerson’s, Melville’s, or Mark Twain’s, is both an...
Demanding Liberty
An Untold Story of American Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Historian Brandon O'Brien unveils an untold story of religious liberty in America. Between theocracy and secularism, Baptist pastor Isaac Backus contended for a third way—religious liberty and freedom of conscience for all Americans, regardless of belief. Backus's ideas impacted his era, giving...
John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay
Communities and Connections in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book traces the development of John Eliot’s mission to the Algonquian-speaking people of Massachusetts Bay, from his arrival in 1631 until his death in 1690. It explores John Eliot’s determination to use the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, both in speech and in print, as a language of...
A Burning and Shining Light
The Testimony and Witness of George Whitefield
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A Burning and Shining Light is a comprehensive, modern-day biography of George Whitefield, the Great Awakening Evangelist. Chronological in nature, its emphasis is on his travel, preaching, and influence on two continents. Nelson's intent is to expand the reader’s understanding of Whitefield’s...
A Speaking Aristocracy
Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new...
Making Heretics
Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political...