Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
I. The Discoverers of the Upper Mississippi
II. Bearers of the Calumet
III.The Man with the Copper Hand
IV. The Undespairing Norman
V. French Settlements
VI. The Last Great Indian
The World Hunt
An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion...
by Lauren F. Winner
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Ghost Empire
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in...
The Native Ground
Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European...
by Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian, and hes considered one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work...
Bolt Of Fate
Benjamin Franklin And His Fabulous Kite
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity...
by Timothy R Walton
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
The story of the expeditions of Spanish explorers told through the history of the first American currency: pieces of eight.
by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.
by David La Vere
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
What if the 1587 Lost Colony of Roanoke was not lost? What if the survivors left Roanoke Island North Carolina and found their way to Georgia? That is the scenario scholars contemplated when a series of engraved stones were found in the 1930's. The first found near the Chowan River in North Carolina...
Revisiting 1759
The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath...
The Beginnings of New England
Or, the Puritan Theocracy in Its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
The Beginnings of New England
Or, the Puritan Theocracy in Its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE ROMAN IDEA AND THE ENGLISH IDEA.
CHAPTER II. THE PURITAN EXODUS.
CHAPTER III. THE PLANTING OF NEW ENGLAND.
CHAPTER IV. THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERACY.
CHAPTER V. KING PHILIP'S WAR.
CHAPTER VI. THE TYRANNY OF ANDROS.
Women in Stuart England and America
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Originally published in 1974, this study offers valuable perspectives on the status and roles of women in Stuart England and in the newly settled colonies of North America, particularly Massachusetts and Virginia. Incorporating both new research on the subject, and the findings of other scholars on...
America at 1750
A Social Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism.