Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Glorious Revolution in America
Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 created a major crisis among the British colonies in America. Following news of the English Revolution, a series of rebellions and insurrections erupted in colonial America from Massachusetts to Carolina. Although the upheavals of 1689 were sparked by local grievances,...
by Philip F. Gura
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1996
The Crossroads of American History and Literature collects two decades' worth of the best-known essays of Philip F. Gura. Beginning with a definitive overview of studies of colonial literature, Gura ranges through such subjects in colonial American history as the intellectual life of the Connecticut...
A Storm of Witchcraft
The Salem Trials and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Fascinated by colonial New England, shaped in part by his ancestors, Nathaniel Hawthorne recreated that world in his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter. A novel that has inspired generations of American authors and regularly appears on required reading lists, The Scarlet Letter presents the story of...
American Curiosity
Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth...
Blackbeard
A Page from the Colonial History of Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
THE NOTORIOUS PIRATE BLACKBEARD, aka Edward Teach (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies during the early 1700s. Originally a study under Pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard quickly rose...
by Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
• illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Foreword I. Philadelphia Architecture II. Georgian Country Houses of Brick III. City Residences of Brick IV. Ledge-stone Country Houses V. Plastered Stone Country Houses VI. Hewn Stone Country Houses VII. Doorways and Porches...
Our Beloved Kin
A New History of King Philip’s War
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America
With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the “First Indian War” (later named King Philip’s...
John Woolman and the Government of Christ
A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the...
by Allan Kulikoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary...
The European and the Indian
Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1982
Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.
Another's Country
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared...
The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden
Empire, Science, and Intellectual Culture in British New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Was there a conservative Enlightenment? Could a self-proclaimed man of learning and progressive science also have been an agent of monarchy and reaction? Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), an educated Scottish emigrant and powerful colonial politician, was at the forefront of American intellectual...