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This concise guide explains the background to the wars and charts the military development of the British Army and the reforms that led to its eventual superiority. The French-Indian War was fought ……続きを見る

"Quick in the saddle and fast out of town." Watch one of America's most remarkable heroes come alive through fast-paced prose and gripping storytelling. He's Famous for his Ride. He's Essential for ……続きを見る

This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of hi……続きを見る

A detailed, historic guide to the rich physical history of New York City, from its founding by Dutch settlers to the turn of the twentieth century. Nooks and Corners of Old New York celebrates the p……続きを見る

**“A vital contribution to our understanding of our country’s beginnings and who we are.” ーAnnette Gordon-Reed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of On Juneteenth An acclaimed historian captu……続きを見る

On 9 July 1755 amid the wilderness of North America, Britain suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in her history. This illustrated volume explores the lead-up, the battle and its far-reachin……続きを見る

A compact volume on Cornwallis's Pyrrhic victory in North Carolina, featuring illustrations throughout. By the Spring of 1781, the American Revolutionary War had dragged on for almost six years and ……続きを見る

A superbly illustrated study of the Native Americans' last major effort to drive the English colonists out of New England. King Philip's War was the result of over 50 years' tension between the nati……続きを見る

A detailed exploration of a significant victory for Virginia militia forces over the Shawnee and Mingo tribes in Kentucky. The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant……続きを見る

The Mohegan-Brothertown minister Samson Occom (1723–1792) was a prominent political and religious leader of the Indigenous peoples of present-day New York and New England, among whom he is still rev……続きを見る

Plagues in sixteenth century England ravage London's citizens. Cole, Clarke, and Collier surviving family members emerge and persevere to pursue freedom, liberty, and new opportunities. While mourni……続きを見る

Puritans, Plagues, and Promises transports you back four centuries into some of England's most tumultuous times. From the beginning pages, a web of intrigue engulfs the first two characters: the Col……続きを見る

Promises offered on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean span the late sixteenth century and into the first third of the seventeenth century for the families Cole, Clarke, and Collier. This golden age o……続きを見る

A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history. From the establishment of Jamestown in 1607, English settlers ……続きを見る

Emma Anderson uses one man's compelling story to explore the collision of Christianity with traditional Native religion in colonial North America. Pierre-Anthoine Pastedechouan was born into a nomad……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson, a man of nearly unparalleled influence and excellence in the history of the United States, was a man of letters, but not of books. This autobiography, covering the years 1743-1790,……続きを見る

“A magisterial yet highly nuanced account that ventures back and forth across Mason and Dixon’s fabled demarcation line as audaciously as 18th-century raiding parties once did.”ーHarold Holzer, Wall……続きを見る

People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments……続きを見る

"Error in history is like a flock of sheep jumping over a bridge; if one goes, the rest all follow." (Charles Campbell, cited by Jennings Cropper Wise in Ye Kingdom of Accawmacke) In Another Day, Je……続きを見る

Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has be……続きを見る

‘Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny The Founding Fathers were men of high intellect, ……続きを見る

���� Explore "New World 1492: America's Birth" - A Captivating Journey through Four Books Step into the year 1492 and embark on an unforgettable voyage of discovery, collision, and legacy with our e……続きを見る

This book offers the first English translation of journals written by four leading figures in the Moravian Church who spent time in the British colony of Georgia between 1735 and 1737. Authored by A……続きを見る

Built in about 1475, and in parts possibly much earlier, this typical East Anglian timber framed building was home to Christopher Jones, the famous captain of the ship Mayflower which took the Pilgr……続きを見る

"Chains of Tyranny: Uncovering the North Atlantic Slave Trade" is a compelling and meticulously researched exploration of one of the most devastating and enduring human tragedies in history. This th……続きを見る

Nel suo saggio "Le origini degli Stati Uniti d'America", Gennaro Mondaini esplora le complessità storiche e culturali che hanno dato vita alla nazione americana. Attraverso un'analisi dettagliata di……続きを見る

During the last four hundred years the peoples of the Western world have been busily engaged in converting their governmentsーoften forciblyーto practical Christianity, in regard to their domestic a……続きを見る

If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe,……続きを見る

This article, "The Spy of the Mohawk" by William W. Campbell, from the 1847 Knickerbocker magazine, tells stories of colonial America. 続きを見る

The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this v……続きを見る