Colonial Period

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries...

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In ""American Curiosity"", Susan Scott Parrish examines how various people in the British colonies understood and represented the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983674405Author Anthony VaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Pickpocket PublishingPublisher Pickpocket PublishingWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016068Author C BerkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books

In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga,...

This new edition and original translation of a tract by Dutch settler and lawyer van der Donck makes more widely accessible a document crucial for understanding the history of Dutch colonization in North America. . . . This document is an important...

Transatlantic Encounters examines the diverse origins and experiences of approximately 175 American Indians and Inuits who traveled to the British Isles before the American Revolution. Their homelands ranged from northern Canada to Brazil, their ages...

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...

The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devoted to the founding. "If the foundations of the American polity was laid by the...

With the final words of the Declaration of Independence, the signatories famously pledged to one another their lives, their fortunes, and their "sacred Honor." But what about those who made the opposite choice? By looking through the analytical lens of...

Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, andfixed deeply in the collective consciousnesshell and eternal damnation. The fear of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165423Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061312274Author Edmund S. MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

To Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and then to the fledgling United States, no problem was more urgent than how to divide authority between local powers and the governing central power. In this book the noted colonial historian Jack P. Greene...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882514908Author Gerry BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Greenleaf PressPublisher Greenleaf PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786464623Author Elizabeth Caldwell HirschmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co IncWeight(grams) 495g

In the late winter and early spring of 1692, residents of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began to suffer from strange physical and mental maladies. The randomness of the victims, and unusual symptoms that were seldom duplicated, led residents to suspect...

America's physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American...

Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316200592Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Killed Strangely is an engaging read that will entrance and inform readers who are at once murder mystery and history buffs.- Cornelia Hughes Dayton Common-Place "It was Rebecca's son, Thomas, who first realized the victim's identity. His eyes were...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933212111Author Robert AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Commonwealth EditionsPublisher Commonwealth EditionsWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and...

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized,...

The second edition of Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America updates Edwin Danson's definitive history of the creation of the Mason - Dixon Line to reflect new research and archival documents that have come to...

What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and...

In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly...

This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903...

A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever...

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters...

In December 1606, three ships carrying 144 passengers and crew sailed from London bound for a land that had already claimed more than its share of English lives. In May of the following year, little more than 100 men would disembark to settle on a small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bancroft Prize 1999 and Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780375702624Author Jill LeporeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530896Author John AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937981723Author Kambiz MostofizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Mikazuki Publishing HousePublisher Mikazuki Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this cataclysmic movement of people and institutions was the intermixture of cultures in the colonies that...

Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the...

An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic...

The captivating story of four young people-English and Powhatan-who lived their lives between cultures In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding...