Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Mayflower Bastard
A Stranger Among the Pilgrims
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
David Lindsay, researching old records to learn details of the life of his ancestor, Richard More, soon found himself in the position of the Sorcerer's Apprentice-wherever he looked for one item, ten more appeared. What he found illuminated not only More's own life but painted a clear and satisfying...
North, South, East, West
American Indians and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Vibrant photographs and moving quotes give tangible expression to a rich heritage of Native American beliefs and customs, and demonstrate how Native groups maintain viable cultures within mondern-day America.
by W. Stitt Robinson, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE The Land and the Indian
CHAPTER TWO The London Company
CHAPTER THREE Virginia as a Royal Colony
CHAPTER FOUR Royal Administration of Land Policy
CHAPTER FIVE The Northern Neck
RETROSPECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Liberty and Freedom
A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core...
by Francis Parkman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World, is best known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Two years later, he was given the order to colonize and govern the great expanse of territory between Lake Michigan and...
The Baptism of Early Virginia
How Christianity Created Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies—ultimately in the idea of "hereditary...
by William Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, this landmark account was written between 1630 and 1647. It vividly documents the Pilgrims' adventures: their first stop in Holland, the harrowing transatlantic crossing aboard the Mayflower, the first...
New Netherland Connections
Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within...
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History
The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time...
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand
Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire...
Era of Persuasion
American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
Pre-eighteenth century America was a uniquely pragmatic, utopian society—a new world in which the expectations of a new beginning brought by explorers, traders, and settlers often conflicted violently the Native Americans they encountered. In Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture 1521–1680,...
The Long Argument
English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on...
The Wild Frontier
Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like...
The Journal of Thomas Jefferson's Life and Times
A Man of Many Interests and Talents
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The Journal of Thomas Jefferson’s Life and Times is published twice yearly, in the spring and fall.
The Journal is theme-based with each issue featuring a different Jeffersonian subject. In Jefferson’s life, one thing related to many others. The Journal follows this pattern with...