Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Profits in the Wilderness
Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Here is no remoteness of life and thought, no hermetically sealed seclusion, except possibly, that of the grave, into which the disturbing influences of this war do not penetrate. Of course, the general heart-quake of the country long ago knocked at my cottage-door, and compelled me, reluctantly,...
William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony "the seed of the nation." Penn wanted his Pennsylvania to be a land where people of differing languages and customs could live together, where men and...
The Making of the Great West (Illustrated Edition)
History of the American Frontier 1512-1883
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country. In this volume, I have followed up to its legitimate ending the work done...
by Jasper Danckaerts
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Jasper Danckaerts was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River, located in the present US state of Maryland. The narrative of his journey in 1679 and 1680 offers a description of the landscape and the lifestyle of inhabitants of the region in the late 17th century. The diary is...
by MD DMin John Turrentine
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Often today some historians prefer to describe our Founding Fathers as deists. Deists and secularists not only suggest scholars could learn more about religion by studying nature and science rather than the Bible and Christian theology, but they also criticize the Judeo-Christian tradition and many...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A Companion to Thomas Jefferson presents a state-of-the-art assessment and overview of the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson through a collection of essays grounded in the latest scholarship.
Features essays by the leading scholars in the field, including Pulitzer Prize winners Annette Gordon-Reed...
Strangers Within the Realm
Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean.
An introduction surveys British imperial...
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784
A Study of Frontier Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This edition features • a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS Preface Introduction I. Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography II. The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors III. The Politics of Fair Play IV. The Farmers' Frontier V. Fair Play Society VI. Leadership and...
by Jane E. Calvert
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
In the late-seventeenth century, Quakers originated a unique strain of constitutionalism, based on their theology and ecclesiology, which emphasized constitutional perpetuity and radical change through popular peaceful protest. While Whigs could imagine no other means of drastic constitutional reform...
Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers
Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Until the mid-1700s, law was not thought of as a science or profession. Most Virginians adhered to the English country tradition that considered law to be a local and personal affair. The growth of cities and business, however, guaranteed that disputes would spill over county boundaries. As law proliferated...
As a City on a Hill
The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism
“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald...
Insubordinate Spirit
A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Insubordinate Spirit is a unique exploration into the life of Elizabeth Winthrop and other seventeenth-century English Puritans who emigrated to the rough, virtually untouched wilderness of present-day New England. Excerpts from newly discovered personal diaries and correspondence provide readers...
Historic Highways of America
Volume 2: Indian Thoroughfares
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old...