Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
A First Book in American History
"An Early Life of America"
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018
IN preparing a first book of American history, it is necessary to keep in mind the two purposed such a work is required to serve.
There are children whose school life is brief; these must get all the instruction they are to receive in their country's history from a book of the grade...
Colonization and Its Discontents
Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America’s abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the...
by John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands,...
Freedom's Debt
The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds...
The Duke's Province
A Study of New York Politics and Society, 1664-1691
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The late seventeenth century in America was important as an era of transition from rough settlement to established provincial life. It was a time when social, political, and economic problems caused strains that led to religious doubt, personal anxiety, riot, and one of the worst rebellions in the...
Town Born
The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice,...
Away Off Shore
Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispensable book.” —Russell Baker
In his first book of history, Nathaniel Philbrick...
Love and Hate in Jamestown
John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded...
Freedom Bound
Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and...
by David Barton
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
"America's Godly Heritage clearly sets forth the beliefs of many famous Founding Fathers concerning the proper role of Christian principles in education, government, and the public affairs of the nation. The beliefs of Founders such as Patrick Henry, John Quincy Adams, John Jay, George Washington, Thomas...
by William R. Griffith IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George. Under the command of French general Jean-Armand, Baron de Dieskau, the men ambushed the approaching British forces, sparking a bloody conflict for control of...
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet
Exploration, Encounter, and the French New World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American...
Remembering 1759
The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest...
Constance
A Story of Early Plymouth
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
"An absorbing historical romance."—Booklist
"Constance is an engaging, high-spirited heroine . . . A fine historical novel written with verve and fresh imagination."—Horn Book
Runner-up for the National Book Award for Children's Literature in 1969, Constance is...