Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
From Dependency to Independence
Economic Revolution in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the'problem'of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies:...
Brabbling Women
Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers...
The Captive's Position
Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation...
Local Government in Early America
The Colonial Experience and Lessons from the Founders
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Local Government in Early America is a concise and thought-provoking exploration of the American desire for political participation, most notably in the 'town hall meeting.' A product of early New England democracy, this form of direct local participation remains one of the most celebrated, yet feared,...
Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era
The British Colonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British America, and covering men's, women's, and children's garments. The book shows how dress...
Bounded Lives, Bounded Places
Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1997
During Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favor the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places, Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum...
Conversing by Signs
Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often indirect,...
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the...
by Edwin S. Grosvenor
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
There is only one New York. It didn't make America, but it made possible the America we've come to know. Here - from American Heritage magazine and such historians as Nathaniel Benchley, David McCullough, and William V. Shannon - is its remarkable story: from Henry Hudson's historic voyage and the...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents a landmark collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empire and created a nation: In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven Years War,...
by Abraham Lincoln, George Washington & Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Harvard Classics Volume 43 compiled a collection of essential American documents, comprised of 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts and governmental documents that cover the United States from the settling of the continent to the founding of the country and through the Civil War and early 20th...
The Road to Mobocracy
Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social corrective, tolerated by public officials. It became...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled in the Virginia colony. Jefferson's father, although...
The Spirit of '74
How the American Revolution Began
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
How ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: “[A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “the shot heard ’round the world,” but sixteen months divided these two iconic events,...