Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The World That Made New Orleans
From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans’ first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural,...
The Devil of Great Island
Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents...
Breaking The Backcountry
Seven Years War In Virginia And Pennsylvania 1754-1765
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2003
Even as the 250th anniversary of its outbreak approaches, the Seven Years' War (otherwise known as the French and Indian War) is still not wholly understood. Most accounts tell the story as a military struggle between British and French forces, with shifting alliances of Indians, culminating in the...
by K. David Goss Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
The Salem witch trials are one of the most fascinating events in American history. Despite being commonly covered in school curricula, the nature of the trials are often misunderstood. This book enables readers to get unique perspective and insight into the nature of this event through a representative...
Final Passages
The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet led a British-American army into what is today eastern Ohio with the intention of ending the border conflict called “Pontiac’s War.” Brokering a truce without violence and through negotiations, he ordered the Delawares and Shawnees to release all of their...
by Mac Griswold
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Writer, Statesman, World-traveler, Publisher, Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Diplomat, Newspaper editor, Scientist, Satirist, Pamphleteer, Social critic. Of all America's illustrious Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was the one who most readily wore the mantle of the Renaissance Man. His interests...
Masters of Empire
Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux,...
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom
A Quaker in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed...
by Joshua Piker
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Told by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn Whistler’s execution for killing five Cherokees speaks to the collision of European and Indian cultures, the struggle to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire on the eve of the American Revolution.
by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
I. GENESIS OF ENGLISH COLONIZATION (1492-1579)
II. GILBERT AND RALEIGH COLONIES (1583-1602)
III. FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA (1602-1608)
IV. GLOOM IN VIRGINIA (1608-1617)
V....
Salem Witch Judge
The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and...
The Settlers' Empire
Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion,...