Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Uncommon Ground
Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society's prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation...
Envisioning an English Empire
Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.
The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event...
Junipero Serra
California's Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's history
In the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were freeing themselves from the burdens of colonial rule, Spaniards moved up the California coast to build frontier outposts of empire...
Red, White, and Black Make Blue
Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But when blue became the most popular color for the textiles that Britain turned out in large quantities...
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
The Fever of 1721
The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The “intelligent and sweeping” (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776—and how Boston’s smallpox epidemic was at the center of it all.
In The Fever of 1721 Stephen Coss brings to life the amazing cast of characters who changed...
A Factious People
Politics and Society in Colonial New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious identities. New York’s highly volatile and contentious political...
Brothers Among Nations
The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
During the first eighty years of permanent European colonization, webs of alliances shaped North America from northern New England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and entangled all peoples in one form or another. In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia Van Zandt argues that the pursuit of alliances...
Contested Commonwealths
Essays in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts - the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular...
John Winthrop
America's Forgotten Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2003
John Winthrop's effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values, and many remember this phrase famously quoted by the late Ronald Reagan. However, most know very little about the first American to speak these words. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer...
Subjects unto the Same King
Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Land ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King, a book that cogently redefines the relationship between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century...
War on the Run
The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Often hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers’ legend. The child of marginalized...
by Lawrence H. Leder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This is the biography of a wily Scots settler who arrived in New York in 1675 and became one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. His career illustrates the growing breach between English and American approaches to political and administrative problems.
Originally published...
The Forty Years that Created America
The Story of the Explorers, Promoters, Investors, and Settlers Who Founded the First English Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The names “Jamestown” and “Plymouth” have become synonymous for most students of American history with “founding,” and “birth”—both, of the American nation, and of freedom and democracy themselves. In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our country’s formative years,...