Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
by William R. Lighton
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. Their names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
Daughters of Eve
Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who bore...
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
The Dream and the Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
The Dream and the Reality
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE COMMONWEALTH
CHAPTER II. THE ANTINOMIANS
CHAPTER III. THE CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM
CHAPTER IV. THE ANABAPTISTS
CHAPTER V. THE QUAKERS
CHAPTER VI. THE...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe features essays from leading academics that consider various aspects of the lives and legacies of our fourth and fifth presidents.
Provides historians and students of history with a wealth of new insights into the lives and achievements of two of...
by Carla J. Mulford
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of independence from Britain that became...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index.
CONTENTS (abridged list)
1603, September 17. Banishing Vagabonds to America,
1606, August 23. Transporting of Women and Children to Foreign Parts,
1614, September 11. Importation of Whale-fins from Greenland,
1617, December...
Apostle of the East
The Life and Journeys of Daniel Little
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Naturalist, scientist, pastor, missionary - Daniel Little. In 18th century America, Daniel Little became known as the "Apostle of the East" by his contemporaries and admirers for his many missionary journeys along Maine's eastern frontier. He spent much of his life ministering to the...
The Puritan Cosmopolis
The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also thinking...
We Came Naked and Barefoot
The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six...
The Townshend Moment
The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland
Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the...
A Cheney Sampler
Excerpts from Books by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Excerpts from books by Glenn Alan Cheney. Excerpts are from: -- Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America -- Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil -- Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something -- Passion in an Improper Place -- Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil's lost nation of fugitive slaves
-- Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis
By Birth or Consent
Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor contracts or be hanged for arson or picking pockets....
by Gideon Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architect James Madison; as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, he was the only...
Invisible Masters
Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Invisible Masters rewrites the familiar narrative of the relation between Puritan religious culture and New England’s economic culture as a history of the primary discourse that connected them: service. The understanding early Puritans had of themselves as God’s servants and earthly masters was...