Colonial Period

In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers - Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper - reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513439Author James R McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual...

In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of...

Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069146Author Francis Jr ParkmanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 621g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264793Author Baylus BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office of Archives...

'A must-read graphic history. . . an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future' Guardian'Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632869258Author David J. SilvermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 686g

The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic world. Even in the 21st century, it remains a touchstone of democratic activism-a timeless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130062Author Winifred GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060090579Author Benjamin WoolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

On fire for God-a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in...

In telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke, the "lost colony," award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in America-the often forgotten years before Jamestown and the landing of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385035095Author Marion L. StarkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375703461Author Bernard BailynFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America...

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375587Author Samuel Swett GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989649148Author William J FedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Amerisearch, Inc.Publisher Amerisearch, Inc.Weight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078677Author Russell ShortoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845255Author Mark CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions, and pamphlets, in which they debated the severity of the problem, speculated on its origins, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600584Author Joan DejeanFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 165mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441343512Author George WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Peter Pauper PressPublisher Peter Pauper PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 191mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922673Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Out of print for over a decade, the long-awaited reissue of the classic Vertigo miniseries Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross is a sharp political fever dream praised by Kirkus as a "truly subversive graphic novel" and "a damning account of...

As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802139603Author Iain GatelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593082560Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Quinn's study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich in details of the colonists' experiences in the New...

A gritty look at the French and Indian War through the lens of the bloody skirmish of Hodges' Scout, the heretofore untold story of a lost patrol.In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined...

This landmark volume is the first in a century to examine the "Second Period" of Quakerism, a time when the Religious Society of Friends experienced upheavals in theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories as a result of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679779087Author Pauline MaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with...

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,...