Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
'Poor Carolina'
Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Ekrich examines the reasons for eighteenth-century North Carolina's political factionalism, social violence, and governmental paralysis. Especially disruptive were the opening of new areas of settlement and the influx of migrant groups with high material hopes, particularly since the colony's economy...
John Winthrop
Founding the City Upon a Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and...
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3
Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Described as "a harmonious human multitude," Ben Franklin's life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even today, the epitome of the self-made man. Born into a humble tradesman's family, this adaptable genius rose to become an architect of the world's first democracy,...
An Empire of Regions
A Brief History of Colonial British America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
An Empire of Regions is a refreshing interpretation of British American history that demonstrates how the thirteen British mainland colonies grew to function as self-governing entities in distinct regional clusters. In lucid prose, Eric Nellis invites readers to explore the circumstances leading to...
Social and Economic Networks in Early Massachusetts
Atlantic Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The seventeenth century saw an influx of immigrants to the heavily Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. This book redefines the role that non-Puritans and non-English immigrants played in the social and economic development of Massachusetts. Marsha Hamilton shows how non-Puritan English, Scots, and Irish...
Bibliography and the Book Trades
Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context...
Marbury v. Madison
The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best. William Marbury, a last-minute judicial appointee of outgoing Federalist president John Adams, demanded redress from the Supreme Court when his commission was not delivered. But Chief Justice John Marshall could clearly see the danger his...
A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves...
To Live upon Hope
Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), and Shekomeko, in Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live upon Hope, Rachel...
Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord
Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2005
This book explores the authorities of Puritan Massachusetts balanced concern for the stability of the colony and the integrity of its Puritan mission with the hopes of reconciling dissidents back into the colonial community.
Pirates of New England
Ruthless Raiders and Rotten Renegades
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Tales of swashbuckling adventure, murder, treachery, and mayhem!
One would be mistaken to think of pirates as roaming only the Caribbean. Pirates as famous as William Kidd and Henry Every have at various times plundered, pillaged, and murdered their way up and down the New England seaboard,...
by Nick McNaughton
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
An Open Door of Liberty is about how religious freedom came to be an important part of the basic law of the United States. There has been much discussion and some controversy over the years as to what a religiously free society requires of its citizens and its government, but there is widespread agreement...
by Sarah Osborn
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure—and one of the first female leaders—of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and one of relatively few colonial women whose writings...
by William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
William Penn (October 14, 1644 July 30, 1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of Pennsylvania (or Penns woods), as well as the man who designed the plan for the city of Philadelphia. His exploits in the new province made him one of the most influential Britons in Colonial...