Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Barbarous Years
The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**
The immigrants...
by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This Timeless classic, commemorating the settlement of the English at Jamestown over four hundred years ago. Under God's blessing, we are not only at peace with the entire world, but are bound by ties of close friendship to the great kingdoms and republics on earth.
Therefore, we may confidently...
by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, William De Leftwich Dodge, Illustrator
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I
Jamestown Celebration. Legends of the Discovery of America. Columbus. The Cabots. Pope Alexander VI. Amerigo Vespucci. The Power of Spain. Queen Elizabeth's Patent. Sir Humphrey...
Epic of Being George Washington
And Declaration of America’S Independence over High Taxes, Usurpations of Power, and No Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Purpose of writing this play is to reclaim the dream of the Father of our Nation, President George Washington by adapting his brainy quotes into Greek style epideictic drama. Also, I wish to explore the conflicts and issues in dialectic of exchange and reply in the political responses of King George...
by Willard Sterne Randall
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison.
On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two...
Bunker Hill
A City, A Siege, A Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe)
Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied...
Washington and Cornwallis
The Battle for America, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Washington and Cornwallis is a gripping narrative of the defeats and narrow victories that won the States' independence from the English crown. Patterson chronicles the battles waged between General George Washington and Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis, and examines their methods of command...
The First Great Awakening
Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and...
How the Post Office Created America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development.
The founders established the post office before they had even signed the...
Settlers, Liberty, and Empire
The Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675–1775
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm, claim indigenous territory and establish new governments by consent, this radical set of ideas...
by Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
A NARRATIVE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PARTICULARS IN THE LIFE OF UKAWSAW GRONNIOSAW is the earliest published autobiography of an African and former slave published in Britain. Born in modern-day Nigeria, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (c. 1705-1775) was reportedly a grandson of the king of Zaara, but sold...
In the Eye of All Trade
Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community...
by Gina M. Martino
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime...
by Brian M. Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1997
In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan's...