Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by Edward Augustus Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This is a history that looks at Britain during the colonial era and the Revolutionary era, and it celebrates the life and deeds of George Washington, who the book argues helped “expand” England by winning the Revolution for the new United States and thereby helped spread the culture and customs in the New World.
by Jason Eden, Naomi Eden
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This interdisciplinary study examines how age norms shaped the experiences of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in colonial North America, exploring how diverse population groups conceptualized the human life course and how they adhered to culturally specific sets of beliefs about...
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
The history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details. The first alone is necessary to the legitimate objects of fiction.
Colonial Comics
New England: 1620 - 1750
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Colonial Comics is a graphic novel collection of 20 stories focusing on the colonial period from 1620 through 1750 in New England. Stories about Puritans and free thinkers, Pequots and Jewish settlers, female business owners and dedicated school teachers, whales and livestock, slavery and frontiers, and many other aspects of colonial life.
by Michael G Laramie
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
From Champlain and Hudson's initial voyages some 400 years ago, to the surrender of Montreal in 1760, The European Invasion of North America: Colonial Conflict Along the Hudson - Champlain Corridor, 1609–1760 offers unprecedented coverage of the 150-year struggle between New World rivals along this...
Converging Worlds
Communities and Cultures in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and "Atlantic" in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students.
With chapters written by top-notch scholars, Converging Worlds is unique in providing...
American Colonial History
Clashing Cultures and Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of European colonists, Africans, and...
American Colonies
The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
by Carl Bridenbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
"A fascinating study not only of the work of the 18th-century American artisan but of his place in pre-Revolutionary society." — The New Yorker
In colonial America, craftsmen comprised the largest segment of the population, after farmers. They were cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers,...
William Stephens
Georgia's Forgotten Founder
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In 1737, Englishman William Stephens (1671--1753) sailed to Georgia to serve as colonial secretary to its British Board of Trustees. His lucid reports on the condition of Georgia deeply impressed the board, which eventually appointed him president of the troubled colony. The elderly Stephens adroitly...
A History of the Book in America
Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced...
by Dr Christina J. Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing...
Converging Worlds
Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and "Atlantic" in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students.
The ideal accompaniment to Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial...
Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts
Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Ninigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In...