Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis
Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates...
Hopeful Journeys
German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
"Written with skill and suspense, it is an inspiring story that Americans can read with pride." - Chicago Tribune. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, is the story of that June day in 1775 that made the American Revolution inevitable. Bunker Hill brings alive the...
The Web of Empire
English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important second book, Alison Games, a colonial American historian, explores the period from 1560 to 1660, when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established...
Band of Giants
The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
On April 19, 1775, thirty-eight Americans formed two uneven lines on the wet grass of the two-acre common in Lexington, Massachusetts. They were summoned by the rolling beat of sixteen-year-old William Diamond's brightly painted drum. The order to sound the call to arms had been given by Lexington's...
William Diamond'S Drum
The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
William Diamond's drum roll in 1775 was the call to arms for the farmers and villagers in Massachusetts that began the American revolution. The book is a well researched history of the war and various battles therein. It is written in a manner to make for an exciting retelling of history.
by Thomas P. Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence
"What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it."...
by Carl Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I — COLONIAL WOMAN AND RELIGION
The Spirit of Woman — The Suffering of Women — The Era of Adventure — Privation and Death in the First Colonial Days — Descriptions...
Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775
A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Although it is obvious that politics, money, and economic conditions were closely interrelated in the twenty years before the Revolution, this is the first account to bring together these strands of early American experience. Ernst also provides and analytical case study of the impact on America of...
5th Grade US History Textbook: Colonial America - Birth of A Nation
Fifth Grade Books US Colonial Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
The birth of a nation is always riddled with complexities, wars, and victories. All those names, dates and other details may prove to be difficult for a 5th grade to process. But with these interactive educational books, information is more easily and effectively absorbed. Let the pictures in this book tell the story. Order a copy now!
by Thomas J. Wertenbaker
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I: ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER II: THE INDIAN WEED
CHAPTER III: THE VIRGINIA YEOMANRY
CHAPTER IV: FREEMEN AND FREEDMEN
CHAPTER V: THE RESTORATION PERIOD
CHAPTER VI: THE YEOMAN IN VIRGINIA...
The Long Road to Revolution
The Many Conflicts in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This is the story of how the American colonies went from dependence to independence. It details the taxes, tea parties and events that lead to the revolution as well as the ties the colonies had to Britain. The book explains how many Americans came to see themselves as an independent people with a unique...