Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
George Croghan
Wilderness Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
George Croghan--land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent--was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the West before the Revolution. This study is based on Croghan's long-lost personal papers that were found by the author in an old Philadelphia...
The Puritan Way of Death
A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1977
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès,...
Rosicrucian America
How a Secret Society Influenced the Destiny of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
An in-depth history of Rosicrucianism, its key members, and their roles in the formation and settling of America
• Explores Sir Francis Bacon and Dr. John Dee’s deep influence on England’s colonization of America as well as the Rosicrucian influence on the Founding Fathers and on cities...
1619
Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand
Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course...
Pocahontas and the English Boys
Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures
In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and...
American Baroque
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroquecharts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the...
The Thirteen-Star Flag
Origin of a Symbol
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book sets aside the Betsy Ross story and focuses on the sources and meanings of the symbols that make up the American flag. It explores the history of the symbolism of the flag in the early stages of its design, not who might have sewn it or who first placed the motifs on a textile.
by James D. Bratt
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
“Diversity” is not a new, foreign element in American life. It goes back to the earliest roots of the nation, when five distinct regions emerged along the Atlantic shore in the 17th century. This book explains how and why that happened, and with what consequences. Each region was marked by a different...
by Maud Wilder Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountains to the sea through the heart of a fertile country and which offers a natural highway for transportation of merchandise and...
Splendiferous Speech
How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
What does it mean to talk like an American? According to John Russell Bartlett's 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms, it means indulging in outlandish slang—splendiferous, scrumptious, higgeldy piggedly—and free-and-easy word creation—demoralize, lengthy, gerrymander. American English is more than...
by Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention...
Prospero's America
John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In Prospero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonization's early giants. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten...
First Martyr of Liberty
Crispus Attucks in American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans' struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While the other victims of the Massacre...
The Birth of the Nation
Jamestown 1607
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.
"When you send againe I entreat you rather send but thirty Carpenters, husbandmen, gardiners, fishermen, blacksmiths, masons and diggers up of trees,...