Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Power to Die
Slavery and Suicide in British North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran...
Swindler Sachem
The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Indians, too, could play the land game for both personal and political benefit
According to his kin, John Wompas was “no sachem,” although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and political practices of both Indians and the English—even...
Holy Nation
The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious...
El Mayflower
El mito fundacional de Estados Unidos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el Mayflower, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Conocer la inestable situación religiosa en Europa durante los siglos XVI y XVII y los motivos que llevaron...
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The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783–1812: A Political, Social, and Military History [3 volumes]
A Political, Social, and Military History
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Relatively little attention has been paid to American military history between 1783 and 1812—arguably the most formative years of the United States. This encyclopedia fills the void in existing literature and provides greater understanding of how the nation evolved during this era.
• Offers...
by Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Record of the Military Service of Colonel Benjamin Goldthwaite a Provincial Soldier is the memoirs of an American soldier in the 18th century, an ancestor of U.S. Cavalry Officer Robert Goldthwaite Carter.
The Precisianist Strain
Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist...
A Sea of Misadventures
Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters,...
Thomas Jefferson
The American Presidents Series: The 3rd President, 1801-1809
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
An illuminating analysis of the man whose name is synonymous with American democracy
Few presidents have embodied the American spirit as fully as Thomas Jefferson. He was the originator of so many of the founding principles of American democracy. Politically, he shuffled off the centralized...
by Francis Parkman, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism."
Empire in the Air
Airline Travel and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Examines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industry
Empire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed...
by Paul W. Mapp
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking...
Marooned
Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth.
We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims...
La Belle
The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Vessel of New World Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In 1995, Texas Historical Commission underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of La Salle’s La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River that landed instead along today’s Matagorda Bay in Texas. During 1996–1997, the Commission...