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The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonisation h……続きを見る

In 1791, The First Bank of the United States was a financial innovation proposed and supported by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. Establishment of the bank was part of a thr……続きを見る

Colonial and Revolutionary America takes a regional approach to understanding the peoples and colonies of early America. It places early America into an Atlantic and comparative context, with emphas……続きを見る

First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and the utopia he attempted to create……続きを見る

In this volume, Professor Clark shows that for two hundred years Canadian society was subject to the same kind of disturbing and disruptive forces that revealed themselves in the United States in th……続きを見る

For over two decades Dr. Skousen taught the American Heritage and the Constitution seminar course to several hundred thousand people. Students observed that he taught from a brown binder of notes an……続きを見る

New Jersey's rich architectural heritage is often overshadowed by the built environment of its metropolitan neighbours of Philadelphia and New York City Benjamin Franklin s proverbial barrel tapped ……続きを見る

This narrative poem on the settling of the United States was awarded the Pulitzer Price posthumously in 1944. We are republishing this classic works with a new additional biography of the author. Be……続きを見る

A special gift edition of one of the most important and influential documents in our nation’s historyーfeatured in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Hamilton: An American Mu……続きを見る

Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth ce……続きを見る

This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of le……続きを見る

In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Using this family’s story as a case study, the authors of Robert Cole’s World provide an ……続きを見る

The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America’s frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the earl……続きを見る

Ekrich examines the reasons for eighteenth-century North Carolina’s political factionalism, social violence, and governmental paralysis. Especially disruptive were the opening of new areas of settle……続きを見る

The charge of treason pitted President Thomas Jefferson against his former vice president, Aaron Burr, and the chief justice of the United States, John Marshall. Here, in this essay by New York Time……続きを見る

In 1739, Major George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. Soon after their arrival, England declared war on Spain and he was recalled to Antigua ……続きを見る

Our Founding Fathers are the great men that won our independence, framed our founding documents, and set this nation in motion. Discover who they were, what they believed, and why they were willing ……続きを見る

When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching……続きを見る

In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various 'texts' ー conve……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

The American colonists had a very special relationship with England since many of them originated from this country. As the days were passing by, the colonists enjoyed a “salutary neglect.” They wer……続きを見る

In 1995, Texas Historical Commission underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of La Salle’s La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississip……続きを見る

This educational resource will show your child the truths and myths about Trade and Tyranny: The Rise and Fall of Colonialism. This might not be an easy read because of the complexity of theories an……続きを見る

From the author of Confronting the Presidents and Confronting Evil, the Revolutionary War as never told before. This breathtaking installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s mega-bestselling Ki……続きを見る

In December 1606, when they set sail from London for the Virginia coast, the people aboard the three ships anticipated the best. They would establish a British colony, find gold, and discover a wate……続きを見る

The hero who returned to Mount Vernon in March 1797 was not a very old man - he was only sixty-five - yet the evidence is clear he had left his mental prime behind him. Although his own mother was a……続きを見る

Policing Transnational Protest offers an original perspective on the history of police surveillance of anticolonial activists in France, Britain, and Germany in the first half of the twentieth centu……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el Mayflower, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Conocer la i……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el juicio de las brujas de Salem, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted ……続きを見る

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 u……続きを見る