New Word City, 2016. — 228 p. Here, from American Heritage, is the human, vital, dramatic story of America's beginnings - from the journeys of early first explorers and the founding of Plymouth and Jamestown to the French and Indian Wars and victory in the War of Independence.
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 421 p. In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly displaced local furniture woods as the height of fashion. Over the next century, consumer demand for mahogany set in motion elaborate schemes to...
Harper and Brothers, 1904. — 403 p. Данная книга подробно описывает создание и управление (органы королевской администрации и самоуправления) ряда британских колоний в Северной Америке (образованных во второй половине 17-го века): Новой Англии, Нью-Йорка, Вирджинии, Джерси, Каролины и Пенсильвании.
Boydell Press, 2020. — 304 p. This book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and the wide-ranging links that were formed in a new and extensive transatlantic chain of supply and consumption. It considers changing fashion in England, the growing demand for fur, at a time when the Russian fur trade was in decline, examines...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Integrating sophisticated demographic techniques with clearly written narrative, this pioneering book explores the complex social and economic life of a major colonial city. New York City was a vital part of the middle colonies and may hold the key to the origins of political democracy in America. Family histories, public records of...
University of Arkansas Press, 1991. — 296 p. Before Arkansas was acquired by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, it was claimed first by France, then later by Spain. Both of these cultures profoundly influenced the development of the region and its inhabitants, as evidenced in the many cultural artifacts that constitute the social, economic, and...
1664. – 1 fol. 7 августа 1664 года флотилия из четырех британских военных судов под командованием полковника Ричарда Николлса вошла в бухту Нового Амстердама (ныне г. Нью-Йорк) и потребовала от генерал-губернатора Питера Стёйвесанта сдачи колонии Новые Нидерланды англичанам. Поскольку по численности вооруженных солдат англичане значительно превосходили голландцев, Стёйвесант был...
Knopf, 2012. — 640 p.
Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling 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. They were a mixed multitude—from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 257 p. List of Figures Principal Characters The First Stone Is Cast Evil Things The Waltons The Neighbors from Hell Fences and Neighbors Neighbors and Witches Great Island’s Great Matter The Mason Family Stakes Its Claim The Spread of Lithobolia To Salem Epilogue Notes Acknowledgements
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1874. — 598 p. The papers which i obtained from the French archives when Mr. Mignet had tliem in charge, have been of the greatest benefit in preparing this volume. Important aid has been derived from the exceedingly copious and as yet unedited cabinet correspondence of Frederic the Second of Prussia with his foreign ministers in England,...
Brill, 2020. — xx, 560 p.: 90 color ills. — (Early American History. The American Colonies, 1500-1830 10). Colonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims – all are examined and stereotypical assumptions overturned in 15 essays by the foremost authority on the Pilgrims and...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 396 p. In The Currency of Empire , Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the...
Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1995. — 2020 / 1016 s. Myślą przewodnią całego dzieła było przedstawienie najnowszego stanu wiedzy o społeczeństwie i państwie amerykańskim w sposób interdyscyplinarny, obejmujący zarówno historię polityczną i gospodarczą, jak i dzieje kultury. tom 1 : 1607-1763 tom 2 : 1763-1848 tom 3 : 1848-1917 tom 4 : 1917-1945 tom 5 : 1945-1990
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 259 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Ambitious Men of Modest Means examines the governance of British America in the period prior to the American Revolution. Focusing upon the career of George Montagu Dunk, Second Earl of Halifax and First Lord of the Board of Trade & Plantations (1716-1771), it explores colonial planners and policy-makers...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 268 p. The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 232 p. In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 774 p. The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921. — 320 p. Монография описывает историю изучения Америки испанцами, начиная с Понсе де Леона и заканчивая Коронадо и Кабрильо. Автор на основе широкого круга источников обозначает основные вехи в истории испанской колонизации и делает выводы о связях колоний и метрополии. Данная монография относится к числу классических при изучении истории...
Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 2010. — xvi, 273 p. : ill., maps. A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south. William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories...
Princeton University Press, 2001. — 247 p. The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and their...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1856. — 744 p. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no accurate or detailed knowledge of that...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1858. — 1224 p. Paris Documents: 9 - 17. 1745 - 1774. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1858. — 812 p. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no accurate or detailed knowledge of that...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1853. — 918 p. Trascripts of documents in the: Queen s state paper office; in the office of the privy council ; in the British Museum; and in the library of the Arcbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth,in London. London Documents: 1 - 8 parts. 1614 - 1692 years. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1854. — 1232 p. London Documents: 9 - 16. 1693 - 1706. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1855. — 1024 p. London Documents: 17 - 24. 1707 - 1733. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1855. — 1064 p. London Documents: 25 - 32. 1734 - 1755. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1856. — 1040 p. London Documents: 33 - 40. 1756 - 1767. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1857. — 858 p. London Documents: 41 - 47. 1768 - 1782. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1855. — 1170 p. Paris Documents: 1 - 8. 1631 - 1744. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no...
Library of America, 2022. — 1300 p. Four centuries after the Mayflower's arrival, a landmark collection of firsthand accounts charting the history of the English newcomers and their fateful encounters with the region's Native peoples. For centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold--the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, and...
Da Capo Press, 2006. — 336 p. In North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England-both in alliance with Native American tribes-fought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. No confrontation was more brutal and notorious than the massacre of the British garrison of Fort William Henry - an incident memorably...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 304 p. Even as eighteenth-century thinkers from John Locke to Thomas Jefferson struggled to find effective means to restrain power, contemporary discussions of society gave increasing attention to ideals of refinement, moderation, and polished self-presentation. These two sets of ideas have long seemed separate, one dignified as...
NewSouth Books, 2020. — 304 p. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana--is the forgotten fourteenth colony of America's Revolutionary era. The colony's eventful years as a part of the British Empire form an...
Fore Edge, 2014. — 308 p. The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it was piracy and illicit trade that drove a wedge between them, imperiling the American enterprise and bringing the colonies to the verge of rebellion. In The Politics of Piracy, competing criminalities become a lens to examine...
Texas A&M University Press, 2008. — 232 p. Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub between the well-supplied settlers and the isolated Spaniards and Indians of Texas. Its critical economic and diplomatic role made it the most important community on the Louisiana-Texas...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 400 p. An illuminating study of America’s agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras. In the eighteenth century, three‑quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America’s farmers from colonial times through the founding of the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2022. — 470 p. In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and...
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-0-807825532. In our contemporary society characterized by a surfeit of violence, why read about pirates and commerce destroyers? What is heroic about blood thirsty criminals and naval officers who destroyed the livelihood of fisherfolk and sea captains? Simply put, these tales are thrilling...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 252 p. The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and four pence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to cook, eat, sleep, dress and all the rest of living. During the months-long journey, one Pilgrim died. Another, washed overboard,...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 240 p. In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series , Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and...
New York; London: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1898. — 572 p. The Netherlands Before the War With Spain The Country and Its People, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and Art The Netherlands Before the War With Spain Revolution in the Netherlands (1555-1574) Revolution in the Netherlands Independence Declared Assassination of William of Orange Religious Toleration...
New York; London: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1898. — 612 p. The Scottish Kirk and Its Influence on English and American Puritanism Plots of the Catholics against Elizabeth The English in the Netherlands—1585-1588 The Invincible Armada England after the Armada The Development of a National Literature Development OF Puritanism Calvinistic Theology The Jewish Sabbath Civil...
Facts on File, 2009. — 289 p. — (Handbook to Life in America). Life in colonial America was often a struggle for survival and a constant lesson in adaptation. The early years of colonization—fraught with disease, starvation, and conflict with Native Americans—progressed to the development of regional communities in the form of agricultural plantations in the South and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. — 208 p. A narrative history of the largely unexplored eventsâ€"starting almost a century before-that inspired the colonists to launch the American Revolution. The causes of the American Revolution are most often defined as the Stamp Act and other repressive actions by the Crown against its colonies in the years following the French and Indian War....
University of Virginia Press, 2017. — 312 p. The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption. People up and down the social order had discovered and were indulging in the most extraordinary passion for consumer merchandise in quantities and varieties that had been unimaginable to their parents and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 325 p. — ISBN-13 978-0812221855 The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian enclave...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 256 p. Carla Cevasco reveals the disgusting, violent history of hunger in the context of the colonial invasion of early northeastern North America. Locked in constant violence throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Native Americans and English and French colonists faced the pain of hunger, the fear of encounters with taboo foods, and...
Harvard University Press, 2001. — 428 p. With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine...
Charles River Editors Press, 2016. — 112 p. John Smith is one of the most common names in the English language and akin to the use of John Doe, but every Briton and American is familiar with the explorer and mercenary Captain John Smith, who helped found the first permanent English colony in the New World at Jamestown in 1607. Jamestown is fondly remembered today for being the...
W.W. Norton, 1976. — 345 p. Foreword. The Empire at the Accession of George III. George Grenville and the Problems of Empire. The First Crisis over Taxation. The Rockingham Ministry and the Colonies, 1765-1766. Charles Townshend and the Colonies. The Grafton Ministry Marks Time. Aftermath of the Boston Massacre. Crisis over Tea. The Boston Tea Party. Tis Time to Part. Notes.
Routledge, 2006. — 000 p. — ISBN10: 0765680653, 13 978-0765680655. No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the outlines...
Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 1995. — 1216 p.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling through what is now Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi,...
T’Amsterdam, by Jan Banning, Ordinaris Drucker deser Stede, in ‘t Jaer, 1656. — 11 p. В данном памфлете, опубликованном в Амстердаме в 1656 году, содержится информация о земельных наделах, предлагаемых Вест-Индской компанией поселенцам в голландской колонии Новые Нидерланды, и, в частности, о политике Амстердама в отношении колонизации зарубежных территорий согласно соглашению,...
Greenwood, 2000. — 415 p. For every major event or issue of the colonial period, newspapers printed the opinions of the day, in many cases attempting to influence public opinion. Issues such as medical discoveries, education, and censorship are covered in this collection along with important events such as the French and Indian War, the trial of John Peter Zenger, and the...
With a New Introduction by Steven C. Hahn — University Alabama Press, 2004. — 424 p. This volume recounts the clashes and intrigues that played out over the landscape of the Old Southwest and across six decades as the Spanish, French, British, and ultimately Americans vied for control. Rivalry began soon after initial discovery, mapping, and exploration as the world powers,...
University Press of New England, 2015. — 298 p. In his full-scale history of New Hampshire from the Algonkin people to the coming of the American Revolution, the historian Jere R. Daniell discusses the Indian population, the development of community life, the founding of New Hampshire as a royal colony, the political adjustments that existence as a separate colony necessitated,...
The History Press, 2015. — 160 p. Between 1675 and 1759, British, French, and Native Americans soldiers clashed in six distinct wars to claim the land that became the Pine Tree State. Though the showdown between France and Great Britain was international in scale, the decidedly local conflicts in Maine pitted European settlers against Native American tribes. Native and European...
Harvard University Press, 1991. — 322 p. More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world. The Prophecies of Richard Hooker Errand out...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 145p. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. Conflicting Claims. Map: Land Claimed by Spain in. North America, 16th Century. Native Americans in Georgia. Map: Native Americans of Georgia. Conflict between the Spanish and the English over Georgia. The English Colony of Georgia. Oglethorpe and the Colonists Arrive in. Georgia. Laying Out...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 129p. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. Map: Native Americans of Maryland. The Native Americans of Maryland. Corn. Deer hunting. First Settlements in Maryland. Creating a Colony. Map: Land Granted to the Virginia. Company of London, 1606. (JUNE 20, 1632). Map: Original Borders of the Colony of. Maryland, 1632. The First Years of...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 161p. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. The Pilgrims. First Settlements in Massachusetts Plymouth Colony. Map: Pilgrims Explore Cape Cod Bay, 1620. Massachusetts Bay Colony. Map: Massachusetts Bay Colony Area of. Settlement, 1630–1650. Map: Trade with the Caribbean, 1630–1650. Colonists and Native Americans. The Pequot War. The New England...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 145p. Note on Photos. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. Early Explorers. The Western Abenaki of New Hampshire. Map:Western Abenaki of New Hampshire,1600. The Seasonal Life of the Western Abenaki. Western Abenaki Villages and Social Structure. The Coming of the Europeans. First Settlements in New Hampshire. Creating New Hampshire. Map:...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 129p. Note on Photos. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. Early Explorers. The Lenni Lenape. Map:Territory and Language Groups of the Lenni Lenape. First Settlements in New Jersey. Dutch Settlers. Map: Land Claimed by New Netherland. New Sweden. The Fight for New Jersey. The English in New Jersey. James, Duke of York, Lord Proprietor...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 161p. Note on Photos. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. Early Explorers. Early Exploration of New York. Map: Early Exploration of New York, 1609–1613. The DutchWest India Company. Map: Original Boundaries of. New Netherland, 1614. The Native Americans of New York. Map: Native Americans of New York, Early 17th Century. The League of...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 129p. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. Early Explorers. Map: Land Spain Claimed in North America, 16th Century. Attempted Settlement. Map: Native Americans of North Carolina. Native Americans of North Carolina. The Daily Life of Native Americans in North Carolina. First English Settlements in North Carolina. The First Colony. The...
Facts on File, 2005. - 161p. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. Conflicting Claims. Map: Early European Exploration of. Pennsylvania, 1608–1670. The Lenni Lenape. Map:Territory and Language Groups of. the Lenni Lenape. First Settlements in Pennsylvania. The Dutch. Peter Minuit (1580–1638). New Sweden 15. Johan Printz (1592–1663). English Conquest. The Creation of...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 145p. Note on Photos. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. The Native Americans of Rhode Island. Map: Native Americans of Rhode Island. Life in Rhode Island before. European Settlement. First Settlement. Roger Williams and Providence Plantation. The Pequot War. Creating the Colony of Rhode Island. Portsmouth and Newport. Warwick. Patent...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 147p. Note on Photos. Map: The Thirteen Colonies,1790. First Contacts. Early Explorers. Map: Land Spain Claimed in North America, 16th Century. First Settlements. The Native Americans of South Carolina. The Tribes of South Carolina. Map: Native Americans of South Carolina. The Culture of the Native Americans in South Carolina. The Coming of the...
Facts on File Inc., 2005. - 145p. Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790. First Contacts. The Native Americans of Virginia. Map: Native American Language Families of Virginia, 1607. First Settlements in Virginia. James I (1566–1625). Map: Land Granted to the Virginia Company of London, 1606. Jamestown. From Starving to Prosperity. The Starving Time. Tobacco Growing. Plantation...
New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. — 126 p. — (The Thirteen Colonies).
To understand how the United States came together as a nation, students must first acquaint themselves with the original 13 colonies - and how each of these colonies followed its own path to the ratification of the Constitution. "The Thirteen Colonies" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young...
New York: Facts On File, Inc. 2005. — 126 p. — (The Thirteen Colonies).
Delaware describes life in the early colony, including the growth of the colony under William Penn and the Quakers, the success of farming and milling, and the diversity of the population. It discusses early explorers, the growth of European nation-states, and the American Indian civilizations that existed...
T’Aemsteldam, by Ever Nieuwenhof, boeck-verkooper, 1655. — 111 p. Данная книга, опубликованная в Амстердаме в 1655 году, является одним из важнейших источников информации о голландской колонии Новые Нидерланды. Эдриан ван дер Донк получил юридическое образование в Лейденском университете. В 1641-1643 годах он жил и работал в обширном поместье (земельном угодье) Ренсселаерсвийк,...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 232 p. In Hirelings, Jennifer Hull Dorsey re-creates the social and economic milieu of Maryland’s Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing new identities, associations,...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 304 p. Informed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial world came into possession of vital knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. Challenging the notion of early colonial America as an...
Praeger, 2005. — 250 p. Life on the frontier in the decades before the Revolution was extremely difficult and uncertain. It was a world populated by Native Americans, merchants, fur traders, land speculators, soldiers and settlers—including women, slaves, and indentured servants. Each of these groups depended on the others in some way, and collectively they formed the patchwork...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 288 p. Alabama endured warfare, slave trading, squatting, and speculating on its path to becoming America’s 22nd state, and Daniel S. Dupre brings its captivating frontier history to life in Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South. Dupre’s vivid narrative begins when Hernando de Soto first led hundreds of armed Europeans into the region...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 344 p. The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with the contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions shaped and structured early city society. Of the former, none did more than...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 488 p. With America before 1787 , Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here, he explores the increasingly uneasy relations between Britain and its American colonies and the social movements through which the thirteen colonies overcame their...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 488 p. With America before 1787 , Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here, he explores the increasingly uneasy relations between Britain and its American colonies and the social movements through which the thirteen colonies overcame their...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 810 p. The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic,...
University of North Carolina Press, 1973. — 422 p. 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 British monetary policy...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. — 1110 р. — ISBN 9781631495878 TOWARD THE END OF 1721, A QUAKER MAN NAMED ISAAC Norris discovered an alarming prediction in The American Almanack for the Year of Christian Account, 1722. A local magistrate, successful merchant, and gentleman farmer, Norris had stepped into the printshop at the Sign of the Bible on Second Street in Philadelphia...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1883. — 854 p. New York State archives. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without them no accurate or detailed...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1881. — 678 p. Documents relating to the History and Settlements of the towns along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers from 1630 - 1684 years. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1887. — 666 p. New York State archives. New York in the Revolution. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ; and without...
Albany: THe Argus Company, Printers, 1877. — 732 p. The downfall of the Dutch autority in New York was perhaps inevitable. The colonizing impulse of the British Empire in the Seventeenth Century was so much greater than that of any other foregn power that in all human probability the unsurprassed harbor of New York adn its tributaries were its natural and inevitable prey.
Oneworld Publications, 2014. — 432 p. He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith’s life....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. — 272 p. 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 new immigration. Of all the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 365 p. Until relatively recently, the linkage between British Imperial History and the History of Early America was taken for granted. This is no longer the case. Instead, Early American historiography has suffered from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this or that reordering of the subject to combine time periods and...
Brill, 2007. — xxviii, 628 p. — (The Atlantic World 14). This biography recalls the fascinating life of the second Reformed minister of New Amsterdam (present-day New York), Everardus Bogardus, a poor but gifted youth who worked himself upward into the ministry. The first part of the book provides an in-depth analysis of his mystical experience as a 15-year old orphan in his...
Routledge, 2017. — 426 p. — (The Routledge Worlds). The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the communities, cultures, and colonies that comprised colonial America, with a focus on the processes through which communities were created, destroyed, and recreated that were at the heart of the Atlantic...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 320 p. The thirteen mainland colonies of early America were arguably never more British than on the eve of their War of Independence from Britain. Though home to settlers of diverse national and cultural backgrounds, colonial America gradually became more like Britain in its political and judicial systems, material culture, economies,...
Oxford University Press,2014. - 513p. Prologue: Worlds Collide. Maps. Planters, 1607–1640. Brave Heroic Minds. Earth’s Only Paradise. Each Man Shall Have His Share. The Vast and Furious Ocean. Full of Wild Beasts and Wild Men. Projects of No Fantasy. To Clearer Light and More Liberty. In Darkness and the Shadow of Death. Saints, 1640–1675. The Distracted Condition of My Dear...
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 144 p. The New World was full of unusual occurrences and strange trials for the early colonists of New England. Devastating plagues, violent conflicts with Native Americans and freak weather ravaged whole communities. When settlers saw an array of colors dancing through the night sky, they thought the Northern Lights were a sign that their end was...
Macmillan Education, 2002. — 235 p. Colonial America deals with the development of the American colonies from the first permanent settlement at Jamestown to the independence of the thirteen which became the USA. Instead of anticipating the birth of a nation, as is too often the case, Mary K. Geiter and W. A. Speck treat the history of the colonies as part of the wider history...
Harper, 1962. — 452 p. A short history of the "rise of that historical movement which culminates in American secession from the British Empire. Includes descriptions of the individual colonies and their characteristics. Professor Gipson’s magisterial narrative of the Revolutionary movement within the thirteen American colonies meets both the special needs of the editors and the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 328 p. In many accounts of Native American history, treaties are synonymous with tragedy. From the beginnings of settlement, Europeans made and broke treaties, often exploiting Native American lack of alphabetic literacy to manipulate political negotiation. But while colonial dealings had devastating results for Native people, treaty...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 192 p.
The Salem witch hunt of 1692 is among the most infamous events in early American history; however, it was not the only such episode to occur in New England that year. Escaping Salem reconstructs the "other witch hunt" of 1692 that took place in Stamford, Connecticut. Concise and accessible, the book takes students on a revealing journey...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983. — 310 p. How did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid–eighteenth–century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world and a new? This study examines the career of an Anglo–Irish–Acadian army officer, treating in considerable detail the network of...
Brill, 2005. — xiv, 346 p. — (The Atlantic World 4). The essays in this book offer a rich sampling of current scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch colonization in North America. The Introduction explains why the Dutch moment in American history has been overlooked or trivialized and calls attention to signs of the emergence of a new narrative of American beginnings that...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 311 p. In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from invincible and that the degree of cultural...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 228 p. America's past is in many respects misunderstood and distorted. Even our secondary-level and college classrooms are not always capable of correcting the common misconceptions about Columbus and his discovery; Jamestown, John Smith, and Pocahontas; the Salem Witch Trials; and even the American Revolution. What is often lacking in texts on these events...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 618 p. The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's...
Watson Institute for International Studies, scholars at Brown University, 2005. — 100 p. — ISBN: 1-891306-86-3. In the United States, slavery is often thought of as a Southern institution. Many people today are unaware of the extent of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth century North, particularly New England. Long thought of as the birthplace of the anti-slavery...
ABC-CLIO, 2007. — 448 p. Four centuries after its founding, Jamestown has become the stuff of movies, legend, and tourism. This important work treats the reality behind the legends—Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Powhatan, John Smith, and others—and puts the stories into a broader context. More than 250 A–Z entries detail the colonial strategies, military considerations, political...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 395 p. The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because England’s religious unity collapsed...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 375 p. The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion." For early American historians this...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 392 p. Puritans in the New World tells the story of the powerful yet turbulent culture of the English people who embarked on an "errand into the wilderness." It presents the Puritans in their own words, shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox leaders who contended...
LSU Press, 1995. — 452 p. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric,...
University of North Carolina Press, 1964. — 234 p. England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 created a major crisis among the British colonies in America. Following news of the English Revolution, a series of rebellions and insurrections erupted in colonial America from Massachusetts to Carolina. Although the upheavals of 1689 were sparked by local grievances, there were also...
University of Virginia Press, 2009. — 288 p. In the colonial era, Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South. From 1700 to 1775 its growth rate was exceeded in the New World only by that of Philadelphia. The first comprehensive study of this crucial colonial center, Building Charleston charts the rise of one of early America's great cities, revealing...
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 305 p. In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion-both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment-linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional...
ABDO Publishing, 2015. — 51 p. — (Daily Life in US History). — ISBN: 978-1-624036-30-9. Describes life in Colonial America, including why people came to the colonies, how they established trade with Native Americans, and which jobs were popular amongst the colonists.
Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, 1991. — Reprint ed. — (Library Alabama Classics series). — 585 p. : ill., maps. “A landmark in Gulf Coast historiography.” – Florida Historical Quaterly. "Higginbotham has given to American historiography a microcosmic view of one of the earliest and most important outposts in the colonial new world. The Latin South can...
Captivating History, 2021. — 120 p. Did you know that the first English settlement in the New World was a disaster? Perhaps you have heard the story of Roanoke before. Or maybe even the creation of Jamestown. But have you heard about the Spanish colonies in North America? Or the French and Dutch settlements? Colonial America was diverse, with European settlers from various...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 784 p. The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental,...
New York: The Macmillan Company; Norwood Press, 1915. — 165 p. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was the son of Sir William Penn, a distinguished English Admiral. He was born in 1644. His boyhood was marked by a combination of pietism with a strong interest in athletics, and he was expelled from Oxford for nonconformity. After leaving the University he traveled on the...
New York: The Macmillan Company; Norwood Press, 1915. — 165 p. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was the son of Sir William Penn, a distinguished English Admiral. He was born in 1644. His boyhood was marked by a combination of pietism with a strong interest in athletics, and he was expelled from Oxford for nonconformity. After leaving the University he traveled on the...
New York: The Macmillan Company; Norwood Press, 1915. — 165 p. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was the son of Sir William Penn, a distinguished English Admiral. He was born in 1644. His boyhood was marked by a combination of pietism with a strong interest in athletics, and he was expelled from Oxford for nonconformity. After leaving the University he traveled on the...
Basic Books, 2010. — 296 p. In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly diminishing supplies and a fierce native population, White sailed back to England in desperation. He persuaded the wealthy Sir Walter Raleigh, the...
Basic Books, 2006. — 345 p. The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history. Although it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown is too often overlooked in the writing of American history. Founded thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown's courageous settlers have been overshadowed ever since by the...
Lyons Press, 2019. — 228 p. This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go of it, made friends with the Indians, and celebrated with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Other uptight religious Puritans followed them and the whole place became New England. There were some Dutch down in New...
Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1985. — 492 p. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. — 600 p. — (Atlantic World: Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, 3). This volume covers the history of the Dutch colony New Netherland on the North American continent. Based on extensive research of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, much of which has not been previously used, this work provides the most complete...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 288 p. When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 288 p. When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces...
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. — 304 p. Account of the Massachusetts Historical Society "A Word to Boston," by Gov. Bradford Forefather's Song Model of Christian Charity, by Gov. Winthrop Post Office Department D'Aulney and La Tour Lord Protector's Order Whalley and Goffe Instructions to Randolph Commission to Sir Edmund Andros Papers Relative to his...
Xlibris, 2006. — 290 p. When the Mayflower embarked on her famous voyage to America in 1620, she was carrying 102 passengers. To most, they are simply known as "the Pilgrims." Perhaps the name of Governor William Bradford, Elder William Brewster, or Captain Myles Standish.
ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 228 p. The daily lives of most colonial New Englanders were much more colorful and exotic than the drab, pious picture many of us have in mind. Daily Life in Colonial New England exposes as myth much of what we might believe about this era and reveals surprising truths—for example, that sex was openly discussed in Colonial times and was regarded as a welcome...
1641 – 1647. – 39 p. Виллем Кифт (1597-1647 гг.) был голландским торговцем, назначенным Вест-Индской компанией генерал-губернатором Новых Нидерландов в 1638 году. Кифт проводил жесткую политику в отношении индейцев, проживавших на территории колонии, облагая их налогами и пытаясь вытеснить их с традиционных мест проживания. В 1643 году отряд вооруженных солдат под командованием...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 288 p. Sacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth-century English colonization by reexamining some of the key moments of cultural and religious encounter in North America. Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence--blood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 344 p. Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of European colonists, Africans, and Native Americans and their encounters in...
University of North Carolina Press, 1978. — 456 p. Excellent history of the unique characteristics of land ownership in Colonial New York. When the British acquired New York from the Dutch, they found there were significant barriers to settlement not found in neighboring colonies -- most notably a rugged and difficult terrain as well as frequent and severe Indian attacks. The...
Purple Mountain Press, 2004. — 174 p. Robert Kirk served with the 42nd and 77th Highland Regiments in North America during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion. From Niagara Falls to Newfoundland, from the Carolina's to the Mississippi, he covered some five thousand miles by foot, canoe, whaleboat, and transport ship. By the time he returned home after 10 years of...
Te Nieu-York, gedrukt by William Bradford en J. Peter Zenger, 1725. – 171 p. Голландская колония Новые Нидерланды прекратила свое существование в 1664 году, когда генерал-губернатор Питер Стёйвесант был вынужден сдать Новый Амстердам — который вскоре после этого был переименован в Нью-Йорк — под натиском английского флота. Многие жители новых английских колоний в Нью-Йорке и...
University of North Carolina Press, 2023. — 300 p. The fate of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1587 "Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island has been one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of European settlement in North America. For generations, writers, scholars, and others have speculated about the disappearance of more than one hundred colonists, whose only obvious clue left behind...
University of North Carolina Press, 2023. — 300 p. The fate of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1587 "Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island has been one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of European settlement in North America. For generations, writers, scholars, and others have speculated about the disappearance of more than one hundred colonists, whose only obvious clue left behind...
Pineapple Press, 2023. — 440 p. La Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As this book uncovers, it was Spanish influence, and not English, which drove America’s early history. By focusing on America’s Spanish heritage, this collection of stories complicates and sometimes challenges how Americans view...
Pineapple Press, 2023. — 440 p. La Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As this book uncovers, it was Spanish influence, and not English, which drove America’s early history. By focusing on America’s Spanish heritage, this collection of stories complicates and sometimes challenges how Americans view...
Gedrukt in ’t Jaer, 1662. – 93 p. Данный памфлет, опубликованный в Амстердаме в октябре 1662 года без указания имени автора, касается основания поселения на реке Саут-Ривер (так голландцы называли реку Делавэр) в колонии Новые Нидерланды - идею его основания выдвинул Питер Корнелис Плокхой, меннонит и общественный реформатор из Нидерландов. Памфлет включал в себя предложения,...
Greenwood Press, 2012. — 554 p. The American city was an integral part of the colonial experience. Although the five largest cities in colonial America--Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charles Town, and Newport--held less than ten percent of the American population on the eve of the American Revolution, they were particularly significant for a people who resided mostly in rural...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 352 p. A gripping account of the violence and turmoil that engulfed England’s fledgling colonies and the crucial role played by Native Americans in determining the future of North America. In 1675, eastern North America descended into chaos. Virginia exploded into civil war, as rebel colonists decried the corruption of planter oligarchs and...
University Press of New England, 2015. — 252 p. By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful Powhatan and secured the help...
University of North Carolina Press, 1989. — 244 p. This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Using...
Vintage, 1998. — 336 p. King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war - colonists against Indians - that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people),...
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. — 336 p. Examines how the American colonists interpreted the brutal King Philip's War that erupted between them and Native Americans in New England in 1675, showing how they looked to it during the Revolution and used it to justify nineteenth-century Indian removals.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 354 p. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor? Indentured servitude and chattel slavery in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. — 337 p. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars and the Indian Wars were fought by European governments and colonists, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers, against various American Indian and First Nation tribes. These conflicts occurred in North America from the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. — 280 p. The American Baptist church originated in British North America as "little tabernacles in the wilderness," isolated seventeenth-century congregations that had grown into a mainstream denomination by the early nineteenth century. The common view of this transition casts these evangelicals as radicals who were on society's fringe...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 271 p. In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old Testament resonated deeply with New England men, as...
EIR News Service, 2014. — 520 p. La Rouche associate Graham Lowry's book brings to light the visions, strategy, and accomplishments of those who paved the way for the American Revolution, long before the Declaration of Independence. It began in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 as an international conspiracy to found a continental republic. This book is must reading for...
Brill, 2018. — 437 p. — (Early American History Series 7). In Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims David Lupher examines the availability, circulation, and uses of Greek and Roman culture in the earliest period of the British settlement of New England. This book offers the first systematic correction to the dominant assumption that the Separatist settlers of Plymouth Plantation (the...
Michigan State University Press, 2020. — 294 p. French-Indigenous families were a central force in shaping Detroit’s history. Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century examines the role of these kinship networks in Detroit’s development as a site of singular political and economic importance in the continental interior....
University Press of Florida, 2019. — 282 p. In Deadly Virtue , Heather Martel argues that the French Protestant attempt to colonize Florida in the 1560s significantly shaped the developing concept of race in sixteenth-century America. Telling the story of the short-lived French settlement of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, Martel reveals how race, gender,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 232 p. 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 roles as essential public...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. — 359 p. The Ohio Country in the eighteenth century was a zone of international strife, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Iroquois, and other natives who had taken refuge there were caught between the territorial ambitions of the French and British. A Country Between is unique in assuming the perspective of the Indians who struggled to...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. — 398 p. General John Forbes’s campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years’ War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what his success meant to the subsequent history of the...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 236 p. The end of the Seven Years’ War found Britain’s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west, into the little-known and much disputed territories that lay between...
University of North Carolina Press, 2007. — 341 p. Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 328 p. When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 182 p. During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England's North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals. Demanding a say in their own destinies, rebels moved around the region looking for a place to build a democratic political system. This book...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 182 p. During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England's North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals. Demanding a say in their own destinies, rebels moved around the region looking for a place to build a democratic political system. This...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 136 pages.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
History Press, 2014. — 162 p. The story of Newport, Rhode Island's pirates began with war, ended with revolution and inspired swashbuckling legends for generations to come. From 1690 to the American Revolution, many of Newport's fathers, husbands and sons sailed under the black flag. They would return home from plundering the high seas to attend church and serve in public...
UNC Press Books, 2018. — 293 p. This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skillfully interprets this environment in terms of mid-eighteenth century culture. Merrens is the first author to effectively examine the relationship between geographical factors and to analyze it for...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 344 p. The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did;...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 662 p. The book provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography. Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written...
4th Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 662 p. Colonial America: A History to 1763 , 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. — 344 p. As a category of historical analysis, class is dead—or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 320 p. From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America. Tradesmen in New Amsterdam occupied a distinct social position and, with varying levels of...
Penn State Press, 1999. — 168 p. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America describes and explores the emergence of a directly democratic political culture in America, the Federalists' theoretical campaign against that culture, and the legacy of the struggle over democracy for politics today. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America traces the rise of democracy in...
Arcade, 2012. — 384 p. November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony - 115 men, women, and children, among them the first English child...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. — 352 p. In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and by her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose...
McFarland, 2022. — 232 p. Christopher Gist is a great American hero who has often gone unnoticed. Recognized for giving colonists the first detailed description of the Ohio Country, Gist was a close friend of George Washington, whom he met through their affiliation with the Ohio Company. In 1753, the two went on an arduous trek through the western Pennsylvania wilderness in the...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. — 224 p. 1607 vividly tells the story of the founding of Jamestown, recounting the situation of the original Indian inhabitants, the arrival of British settlers 400 years ago, the building of the town-and modern excavations at the site. Along the way, we meet such familiar figures as King James, John Smith, and Pocahontas, but we also come across...
University of South Carolina Press, 2022. — 196 p. Those interested in the early colonial history of South Carolina and the southeastern borderlands will find much to discover in Carolina's Lost Colony in which historian Peter N. Moore examines the dual colonization of Port Royal at the end of the seventeenth century. From the east came Scottish Covenanters, who established the...
University of South Carolina Press, 2022. — 196 p. Those interested in the early colonial history of South Carolina and the southeastern borderlands will find much to discover in Carolina's Lost Colony in which historian Peter N. Moore examines the dual colonization of Port Royal at the end of the seventeenth century. From the east came Scottish Covenanters, who established the...
Boydell and Brewer, 2016. — 440 p. Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some went back quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America - against...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 352 p. From the beginnings of colonial settlement in Illinois Country, the region was characterized by self-determination and collaboration that did not always align with imperial plans. The French in Quebec established a somewhat reluctant alliance with the Illinois Indians while Jesuits and fur traders planted defiant outposts in the...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 246 p. In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of racialized spatial control held much in common with the southern plantation societies. In...
Routledge, 2007. — 550 p. Reflecting the best recent scholarship of Early America and the Early Republic, the articles in this collection study the many dimensions of American political history. The authors explore Native American interests and encounters with settlers, diplomatic endeavors, environmental issues, legal debates and practiced law, women's citizenship and rights,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 488 p. On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's words, a bold "Holy Experiment" in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant England and across Europe. An activist, political theorist, and the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 336 p. Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 354 p. — ISBN13: 9780226585314 In this book, I argue that the absence of urban places was no mere co-incidental product of Chesapeake plantation agriculture. In fact, the relationship between plantations and towns was quite the opposite. A century of failed urban development was instrumental in forging the contours of Chesapeake society. For...
Harvard University Press, 1986. — 280 p. The Urban Crucible boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Through a century-long history of three seaport towns―Boston, New York, and Philadelphia―Gary Nash discovers subtle changes in social and political awareness and describes the coming of the revolution through popular collective action and...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 370 p. America’s colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14, 1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often overlapping among the colonists, between the colonists and the original inhabitants,...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 342 p. In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the 'problem' of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies: a lack of capital and managerial...
Richmond, Va.: Press of The Dietz Printing Co. — 767 p. This book is an invaluable resource for historians and genealogists with an interest in early 17th-century Virginia. It contains copies of original land patents issued during the administrations of Governors Christopher Branch, John Harvey, and Francis Wyatt, and provides personal insights into the lives of those who...
Albany: Weed, Parsons, and Company, Printers, 1861. — 706 p. General Index to the Documents relative to the State of New York. The Public Records of the State of New York are, chiefly, in the office of the Secretary of State of Albany. They are as various in their character as they are voluminous in their extent. Most of them related to end illustrate the History of the State ;...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 414 p. In 1715 the upstart British colony of South Carolina was nearly destroyed in an unexpected conflict with many of its Indian neighbors, most notably the Yamasees, a group whose sovereignty had become increasingly threatened. The South Carolina militia retaliated repeatedly until, by 1717, the Yamasees were nearly annihilated, and...
Excelsior Editions, 2009. — 416 p. William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved to the frontiers along the Mohawk River, where he established himself as a fur trader and eventually became a landowner with vast estates;...
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 312 p. Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its...
Archon Books, 1968. — 174 p. As Spain declined in power, other European nations rushed to establish colonies on even the smallest islands. Colonizers hoped to obtain exotic or valuable raw materials for sale in Europe and to open new markets on the islands for European manufactures. England, which began settling the North American mainland in 1607, joined her neighbors in...
Routledge, 2013. — 224 p. 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 eventually became the governor of Massachusetts....
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 185 p. — ISBN: 9780226544014 By the time insurgents arrived at the manor house, the landlord who used to live there had already fled. He had taken much of his personal property with him, thus succeeding in keeping it out of the insurgents’ hands. In that regard, he was more fortunate than others had been, many of whom had their houses...
3rd Edition — University of Chicago Press, 1965. — 266 p. Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and enemies, they can be separated into four major conflicts, corresponding to four European wars of which they were, in varying degrees, a part: King William's War (1689-97) (War...
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 492 p. The years between 1450 and 1550 marked the end of one era in world history and the beginning of another. Most importantly, the focus of global commerce and power shifted from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, largely because of the discovery of the New World. The New World was more than a geographic novelty. It opened the way for new...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. — 325 p. Riot and Revelry in Early America marks a new level of maturity in our understanding of the popular cultures of early America. The essays clearly demonstrate that early America was an integral part of a broader transatlantic tradition of popular disturbance and celebration. In no small way because of the strength of these...
University Press of Mississippi, 2021. — 238 p. Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors...
University of Georgia Press, 2021. — 328 p. In Complexion of Empire in Natchez , Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal records and archival documents to investigate how bound labor contributed to the establishment and subsequent control of imperial outposts in colonial North America. He examines the dynamic and multifaceted...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 252 p. From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions to devilish terrors, dreams inspired, challenged, and soothed the men and women of seventeenth-century New England. English colonists considered dreams to be fraught messages sent by nature, God, or the Devil; Indians of the region often welcomed dreams as events of tremendous...
HarperCollins e-books, 2009. — 416 p. In this provocative account of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events, individuals, and themes of this critical period. With vivid descriptions of the societies that people from Europe came from and with an emphasis on what they believed they were going to, Polk introduces the native Indians encountered in the New World...
Wesleyan University Press, 1970. — 255 p. An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns. A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts. This book does a beautiful job of comparing villages in New England with their counterparts in England, and the dynamics at work. Many of...
University of Georgia Press, 2013. — 375 p. How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M....
Facts on File, 1999. - 400 Pages. Colonial America to 1763 provides libraries with a compendium of basic quantitative data from the most important government sources and scholarly studies. It includes more than statistical tables. It places this data in scholarly perspective with brief sketches or extended essays (as are appropriate) summarizing current ideas on the broadest...
Nineteenth Printing. — Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resurces, 1996. — 72 p. — ISBN: 0-86526-100-8. This pamphlet on pirates was first published in the spring of 1960 by what was then known as the State Department of Archives and History. Over the years it has proved to be the most popular pamphlet that the Historical Publications Section has issued. This...
The New Press, 2010. — 224 p. According to the traditional telling, the American Revolution began with "the shot heard 'round the world." But the people started taking action earlier than many think. The First American Revolution uses the wide-angle lens of a people's historian to tell a surprising new story of America's revolutionary struggle. In the years before the battle of...
University of Virginia Press, 2017. — 264 p. The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a breathtaking toll on the young English colony of Massachusetts. Over 150 people were imprisoned, and nineteen men and women, including a minister, were executed by hanging. The colonial government, which was...
Penn State University Press, 1990. — 177 p. A fresh view of the legal arguments leading to the American Revolution, this book argues that rebellious acts called "lawless" mob action by British authorities were sanctioned by "whig law" in the eyes of the colonists. Professor Reid also holds that leading historians have been misled by taking both sides' forensic statements at...
Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press, 1999. — xxii, 212 p. — ISBN 978-0-8014-8611-1. In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of...
Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2011. — 560 p. America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation’s...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 555 p. America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation’s pre-revolutionary past. In...
Cornell University Press, 1986. — 286 p. Holland on the Hudson traces the history of New Netherland from Henry Hudson's exploration of the region in 1609 to the surrender of the Dutch colony to an English fleet in 1664. Oliver A. Rink's approach is both narrative an analytic as he describes in detail the colony's commercial origins, its social and economic development, and the...
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 360 p.; 1 map; 8 pages of photographs. Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition. In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown...
Pickering and Chatto Ltd., 2009. — 224 p. This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century. Roper explores how the early development of the colony was viewed from both sides of the Atlantic, using the documentary record of key figures in the...
Bantam Books, 2011. — 576 p. Often hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers’ legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. — 256 p. Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in early America. Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America before the American Revolution. Yet these...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 325 p. The success of the American Revolution is less likely to be understood through an examination of its ideological origins than through a close analysis of the political processes by which principles, beliefs, and anxieties were translated into revolutionary action. This book offers the first detailed profile of the several hundred...
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 336 р. Making a radical departure form traditional approaches to colonial American history, this book looks back at Indian-white relations from the perspective of the Indians themselves. In doing so, Neal Salisbury reaches some startling new conclusions about a period of crucial-yet often overlooked-contact between two irreconcilably different...
Routledge, 2020. — 412 p. Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They...
Greenwood Press, 2013. — 440 p. This work examines patterns of everyday life in the colonial South from European contact to 1770, documenting how they evolved over time and differences across lines of geography, nationality, ethnicity, religion, race, gender, and class. This work provides the first synthesis of daily life in the colonial South from the time of European arrival...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 240 p. In The Divided Dominion , Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility of eradicating Native Americans for...
Viking, 2008. — 270 p. More than perhaps any other Native American group, the Iroquois found it to their advantage to interact with and adapt to white settlers. Despite being known as fierce warriors, the Iroquois were just as reliant on political prowess and sophisticated diplomacy to maintain their strategic position between New France and New York. Colonial observers...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 168 p. Wampum has become a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with another, as money itself was quite ill-defined in North America for...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2017. — 192 p. The Netherlands was a world economic power in the seventeenth century. It sought to expand its influence by establishing a colony in the New World. New Amsterdam, situated between Plymouth and Jamestown, was successfully settled in 1624. Readers learn about the rapid rise and fall of this colony, which would be taken over by the...
NYU Press, 2004. — 212 p. In seventeenth-century North America, communities on eastern Long Island were an integral part of the tumultuous and dynamic New England region and the larger Atlantic American world. They were created and modified by ideas and traditions that were inherent to life in Atlantic America and were not simply imported from Europe or established solely by...
Brill, 2024. — 286 p. — (Early American History. The American Colonies, 1500-1830 14). Huddled on dank ships and tossed about in the waves of the Atlantic, English Puritans envisioned a new society predicated on the values of individual and communal humility. Pride, a pervasive sin, jeopardized their very survival and incited God’s wrath. The first generation of New England...
The New Press, 2010. — 288 p. A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history. The American Revolution is widely understood―by schoolchildren and citizens alike―as having ushered in “freedom” as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp...
University of North Carolina Press, 1959. — 244 p. In this series of provocative essays, nine specialists in early American history examine some of the more important aspects of the seventeenth-century colonial experience, presenting an impressive sampling of modern historical research on such topics as colonists and Indians, people and society, church and state, and history...
University of North Carolina Press, 2010. — 502 p. This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self. Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding...
Routledge, 2020. — 262 p. This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a central site of colonial struggle in the South, in which...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 352 p. In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 352 p. In Frontier Country , Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable,...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. — 288 p. In 1763, the Seven Years’ War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, refused to lay down their weapons. Under the leadership of a shrewd Ottawa warrior named Pontiac, they kept...
University Press of New England, 2014. — 144 p. Fort William Henry, America’s early frontier fort at the southern end of Lake George, New York, was a flashpoint for conflict between the British and French empires in America. The fort is perhaps best known as the site of a massacre of British soldiers by Native Americans allied with the French that took place in 1757. Over the...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 272 p. On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "parole of honor" offered by General Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their families and servants to Fort Edward some miles south, they were set upon by...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 230 p. Economic and social life in the upper Chesapeake during the colonial period diverged from that in southern Maryland and Tidewater Virginia despite similar economic bases. Charles Steffen's book offers a fresh interpretation of the economic elite of Baltimore County and challenges the widely accepted view that the life of this...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 224 p. Historians have debated how the clergy's support for political resistance during the American Revolution should be understood, often looking to influence outside of the clergy's tradition. This book argues, however, that the position of the patriot clergy was in continuity with a long-standing tradition of Protestant resistance. Drawing...
Scribner, 2024. — 336 p. Once it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious...
University Press of Kentucky, 1991. — 228 p. In the late 18th century, the Upper Valley of Virginia experienced a conflict between the elitist culture of the gentry and the more democratic values of the populace. Tillson addresses several major issues in historical scholarship on Virginia and the southern backcountry, focusing on changing political values in the late colonial...
Braceland Brothers, Philadelphia: 1981. — 310 p. Elizabeth Griscom Ross, also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the second official U.S. flag, accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Betsy Ross was not a myth. She was a warm, compassionate woman and the product...
University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 288 р. In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant sideshow to the French and...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 305 p. This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 464 p. A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy. "We could have no better guide than Truxes explaining incisively how American colonial merchants enriched their communities through licit and illicit trade, and how this enrichment was the product of slavery and the slave trade."In a single, readily...
Stackpole Books, 2024. — 194 p. his book tells the amazing story of the mostly forgotten and overlooked men who built America in the South, both before and during the American Revolution. It reveals the remarkable story of the Scotch-Irish, who not only tamed the Southern frontier, but also played an outsized role in winning the American Revolution in the South, where America's...
Stackpole Books, 2021. — 552 p. A figure of legendary, almost mythic proportions, Robert Rogers is widely considered the father of U.S. Army Rangers. He gained his fame during the French and Indian War, fighting in the American and Canadian wilderness for the British colonies and the English Empire against the French and Indians, but a decade later, during the Revolution, he...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 464 p. In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the "Mayflower". Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it,...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 464 p. In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the "Mayflower". Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it,...
Vintage, 2010. — 365 p. This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 455 p. Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006. — 576 p. About the Contributors Pre-Contact: The Evidence from Archaeology David G. Anderson and Marvin T. Smith The Origins of Transatlantic Colonization Carole Shammas Ecology John Brooke Migration and Settlement Ned Landsman Empire Richard R. Johnson Indian History During the English Colonial Era James H. Merrell African Americans Philip D....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 304 p. Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties, with parts ruled at...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. — 360 p. 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 British conquest of Canada....
AuthorHouse, 2016. — 252 p. The Whiddon family was of longstanding in the county of Devon with the Whiddons of Chagford being the most prominent of the family branches. Their story is told from their rise to national prominence, beginning in the 13th century, until their descent into obscurity, after the restoration of the English monarchy. Included in their story is a father...
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 345 p. In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about...
New York University Press, 2009. — 344 p. While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip's War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire's most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip's War marked the first time that...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2018. — 472 с. Пенсильвания – один из 13 первоначальных штатов США. Пенсильвания возникла в 1681 г. как английская колония, предназначенная для заселения квакерами. У квакеров была репутация упрямых религиозных чудаков, которые понимали христианство своеобразно: не снимали шляп даже перед самыми важными начальниками, обращались ко всем на «ты» (thou вместо...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 612 с. В масштабной эпопее Поттера мастерски показаны хаотические силы, достигшие кульминации с началом Гражданской войны: экспансия на запад, раскол по вопросу о рабстве, решение Дреда Скотта, восстание Джона Брауна, восхождение Авраама Линкольна и драма отделения Юга. Дэвид Поттер с редким...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 612 с. В масштабной эпопее Поттера мастерски показаны хаотические силы, достигшие кульминации с началом Гражданской войны: экспансия на запад, раскол по вопросу о рабстве, решение Дреда Скотта, восстание Джона Брауна, восхождение Авраама Линкольна и драма отделения Юга. Дэвид Поттер с редким...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 612 с. В масштабной эпопее Поттера мастерски показаны хаотические силы, достигшие кульминации с началом Гражданской войны: экспансия на запад, раскол по вопросу о рабстве, решение Дреда Скотта, восстание Джона Брауна, восхождение Авраама Линкольна и драма отделения Юга. Дэвид Поттер с редким...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 612 с. В масштабной эпопее Поттера мастерски показаны хаотические силы, достигшие кульминации с началом Гражданской войны: экспансия на запад, раскол по вопросу о рабстве, решение Дреда Скотта, восстание Джона Брауна, восхождение Авраама Линкольна и драма отделения Юга. Дэвид Поттер с редким...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 168 с. — (Страны и народы). В книге рассказывается о появлении англичан в Северной Америке, о том, что они хотели там найти, что пытались создать, о легендах, связанных с этим периодом, об утопических мечтах первых поселенцев и, конечно, о том, каковы были в действительности мотивы их поступков и что создали те, от кого ведут свою историю современные...
Москва: Наука, 1980. — 160 с. В книге рассказывается о появлении англичан в Северной Америке, о том, что они хотели там найти, что пытались создать, о легендах, связанных с этим периодом, об утопических мечтах первых поселенцев и, конечно, о том, каковы были в действительности мотивы их поступков и что создали те, от кого ведут свою историю современные американцы. От редактора....
Москва: Наука, 1980. — 160 с. В книге рассказывается о появлении англичан в Северной Америке, о том, что они хотели там найти, что пытались создать, о легендах, связанных с этим периодом, об утопических мечтах первых поселенцев и, конечно, о том, каковы были в действительности мотивы их поступков и что создали те, от кого ведут свою историю современные американцы. От редактора....
Москва: Наука, 1980. — 160 с. В книге рассказывается о появлении англичан в Северной Америке, о том, что они хотели там найти, что пытались создать, о легендах, связанных с этим периодом, об утопических мечтах первых поселенцев и, конечно, о том, каковы были в действительности мотивы их поступков и что создали те, от кого ведут свою историю современные американцы. От редактора....
Москва: Наука, 1980. - 160 с. В книге рассказывается о появлении англичан в Северной Америке, о том, что они хотели там найти, что пытались создать, о легендах, связанных с этим периодом, об утопических мечтах первых поселенцев и, конечно, о том, каковы были в действительности мотивы их поступков и что создали те, от кого ведут свою историю современные американцы. Содержание:...
Монография. — Москва: Наука, 1980. — 349 с. В 30-х годах XVII в. попытка утвердить «истинное» вероучение, создать соответствующее образцовое общество и проложить путь в «лучший мир» была предпринята в английской колонии Массачусетс на континенте Северной Америки. Тогда же в другой английской колонии — Мэриленд попытались искусственно сохранить старый мир, разрушавшийся в...
Монография. — Москва: Наука, 1980. — 349 с. В 30-х годах XVII в. попытка утвердить «истинное» вероучение, создать соответствующее образцовое общество и проложить путь в «лучший мир» была предпринята в английской колонии Массачусетс на континенте Северной Америки. Тогда же в другой английской колонии — Мэриленд попытались искусственно сохранить старый мир, разрушавшийся в...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 336 с. В книге повествуется о том, как на территории современных США возникли первые английские колонии, почему их поселенцы покинули родину, кем были, как начинали жизнь в незнакомой стране, об их встрече с индейцами. Это книга о людях, принесших с собой из Англии и взрастивших на американской земле семена буржуазных отношений. Рассказ ведется на основе...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 336 с. В книге повествуется о том, как на территории современных США возникли первые английские колонии, почему их поселенцы покинули родину, кем были, как начинали жизнь в незнакомой стране, об их встрече с индейцами. Это книга о людях, принесших с собой из Англии и взрастивших на американской земле семена буржуазных отношений. Рассказ ведется на основе...
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