Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Historic Highways of America
Volume 3: Washington's Road (Nemacolin's Path)
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...
Historic Highways of America
Volume 5: The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road
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...
The Sea Mark
Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful...
Cannibal – The language and history of THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD:
From Columbus and Cabot to Amerigo Vespucci (1440–1515) – Book 1 –
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The combined focus of this series is, of course, the history of America and the history of American English. This first book, Cannibal (call it a prequel) sets the scene for European conquest of America – North and South – and reminds us of the race between Columbus and Cabot to reach the Orient,...
Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries
A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the Southwest as well, known as Arizona/Sonora today, in the eighteenth century as Pimería Alta. This was the area where the Jesuits operated all by themselves,...
by Evelyn Brogan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The Old Spanish Trail is celebrated in poem by Brogan. The Trail was established in St. Augustine, Florida, with the arrival of Ponce de Leon in Tampa Bay in 1539, searching for the mythical Fountain of Youth. Shortly thereafter, Franciscans Friars who accompanied the Spaniards founded their first...
Death in Salem
The Private Lives behind the 1692 Witch Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans—including author Diane Foulds—are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death in...
The Shame and the Sorrow
Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan...
by Alejandra Dubcovsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power.
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
The particular colony of the Massachusetts Bay had been the British settlement located in Massachusetts during the 17th century. It had been the most successful as well as the profitable colonies in New England. The given Massachusetts Bay and its respective colonies had been founded the respective Massachusetts Bay Company at the time of the Migration of the Great Puritans.
Face Value
The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption. People up and down the social order had discovered and were indulging in the most extraordinary passion for consumer merchandise in quantities and varieties that had been...
by Rhys Isaac
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.
Sea Venture
Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of Jamestown
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In one of the most triumphant high sea stories ever told, Kieran Doherty brings to life the true story of the ship that rescued the Jamestown settlement in 1610 and ensured England's place in the New World. When the Sea Venture left England in 1609, it was flagship in a fleet of nine bound for Jamestown...
by William Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 - 26 August 1744) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia. His works are among the earliest of Virginia literature and his diaries are considered as classic documents. This diary tells about the iron mines that Ex-Governor Spotswood opened.