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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

"Le origini degli Stati Uniti d'America" di Gennaro Mondaini. Pubblicato da Good Press. Good Press pubblica un grande numero di titoli, di ogni tipo e genere letterario. Dai classici della letteratu……続きを見る

National Book Award Finalist: A study of national myths, lore, and identity that “will interest all those concerned with American cultural history” (American Political Science Review). Winner of the……続きを見る

Upstate South Carolina is a scenic region of business centers, farms and textile towns. But it has a dark side. In 1924, a local resident was convicted for poisoning a neighbor in a case that went t……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, Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery 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

This title follows the Atlantic Slave Trade from the deep interior of the Dark Continent to the shores of the Caribbean Islands, South America and beyond. Departure and arrival points for 12,000,000……続きを見る

This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the Founding Fathers. The classical education they imbibed as young students inspi……続きを見る

Anyentyuwe (an Mpongwe) and Ekâkise (a Benga) are feminists for their time, although their fathers set them on another path before they are age ten. The former is brought to Baraka mission for educa……続きを見る

Readers of Indiana's Timeless Tales – Pre-History to 1781 will discover a wealth of early Indiana history with this timeline of events that cover Indiana history from prehistory up until the formati……続きを見る

Age of Discovery During the Age of Discovery many explorers voyaged from Europe in the quest for a shortcut to Asia. Christopher Columbus, the first of these men, thought he had accomplished the goa……続きを見る

The Early American Explorers The Early Explorers Book 1 includes biographical sketches of some of the first explorers that penetrated the American mainland, both South America and North America. The……続きを見る

The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical rec……続きを見る

From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it f……続きを見る

In early American society, one’s identity was determined in large part by gender. The ways in which men and women engaged with their communities were generally not equal: married women fell under th……続きを見る

The narratives of slaves, wives, and servants who resisted social and domestic violence in the nineteenth century In the early nineteenth century, Peter Wheeler, a slave to Gideon Morehouse in New Y……続きを見る

Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America’s abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national convers……続きを見る

A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World As British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions ……続きを見る

The dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the American Revolution There is an uncomfortable paradox at……続きを見る

A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between ……続きを見る

A rieveting history, Pocahontas and the English Boys is the true story of four young peopleーEnglish and Powhatanーwho lived their lives between cultures. The esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperm……続きを見る

“A fascinating re-examination of the Salem witchhunts and the woman whose confession initiated them” (Robynne Rogers Healey, University of Alberta). In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to ……続きを見る

The fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic. Women in Early America goes beyond the fam……続きを見る

Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into post-Enlightenment early America The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of narrative during times of sickness……続きを見る

A historical study of Rhode Island’s role in the slave economy and of the experiences of enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders. Historians have written about the slave economy and its vital role i……続きを見る

In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe ……続きを見る