Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
At the Crossroads
Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier.
Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence....
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient
The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Paul E. Hoffman's groundbreaking book focuses on a neglected area of colonial history -- southeastern North America during the sixteenth-century. Hoffman describes expeditions to the region, efforts at colonization, and rivalries between the French, Spanish, and English. He reveals the ways in which...
Bacon's Rebellion, a Williamsburg Scandal & Colonel Chiswell's Sword
Three Plays from Virginia's Colonial History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Perhaps no state rivals Virginia when it comes to colonial history. Yet, there are many aspects of Virginia's early history that are either unknown or vaguely known by the general public. Over the last thirty years, Larson has written over thirty plays that deal with these aspects and the generally...
The Poison Plot
A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the...
A Distant Heritage
The Growth of Free Speech in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Historians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies—such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry...
by Helen Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE OLD HOME
CHAPTER II. UPHEAVALS
CHAPTER III. THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER IV. BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER V. OLD FRIENDS AND NEW
CHAPTER VI. A THEOLOGICAL TRAGEDY
CHAPTER VII. COLONIAL LITERARY DEVELOPMENT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER...
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747
A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as...
by Robert Edmond Alter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Matt Burnett joins the militia when he hears of pending French and Indian attacks upon colonial settlers. He immediately finds himself regarded as a hero and at the same time a spy-suspect, both situations arising from a series of incidents involving the young Major George Washington.
Matt...
by Evan Haefeli
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion."...
Mr. Mothercountry
The Man Who Made the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political, economic, cultural and racial ones. One of the central problems of political theory is the insurmountable gap between ideas and their realization....
Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race
European Legal Traditions in Arkansas, 1686-1836
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Partly because its colonial settlements were tiny, remote, and inconsequential, the early history of Arkansas has been almost entirely neglected. Even Arkansas Post, the principal eighteenth-century settlement, served mainly as a temporary place of residence for trappers and voyageurs. It was also...
On the Banks of the Rappahannock
A Captivating Story of Romance and Mystery in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
This historical novel will travel through the colonial days of the south beginning in 1699 and culminating in 1783 with the struggles of the Revolution. Three U. S. Presidents have ties to the historical characters in this book George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. Mary Ball, mother...
Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800
Volume 2: Portable Personal Possessions
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
This long-awaited follow-up to Deagan’s first volume on ceramics, glassware, and beads focuses on the portable personal objects owned and used by the residents of Spanish colonial America. These objects are not only of Spanish origin; the collection includes many English, French, Dutch, German,...
The Freedoms We Lost
Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history.
The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in “freedom” as we know it, a freedom...