D.D. - Colonial Period (1600-1775) 1

“An indispensable book, as intellectually provocative as it is emotionally wrenching.”ーGreg Grandin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The End of the Myth Although the first enslaved Africans ar……続きを見る

Think you've read all there is know about the American Revolution? Think again. Find out where the Battle of Bunker Hill really took place (Hint: it wasn't Bunker Hill), which famous patriot was a s……続きを見る

A Colonial Southern Bookshelf studies popular books among southern readers in eighteenth-century America. From booksellers’ lists and sale catalogs, Richard Beale Davis’s study focuses on three key ……続きを見る

Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letter……続きを見る

From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and libe……続きを見る

By: John Bennett Boddie, Pub. 1956, Reprinted 2019, 428 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-563-8. The Tidewater area of Virginia was one of the early regions within the colonies that received large amo……続きを見る

By: John Bennett Boddie, Pub. 1955, Reprinted 2019, 398 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-562-1. The Tidewater area of Virginia was one of the early regions within the colonies that received l……続きを見る

By: John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-163914-574-4. This book being the standard history of Isle of Wight County begins with a brief chapter on the native……続きを見る

Roger Williams is best known as the founder of Rhode Island who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for his dangerous thoughts on religious liberty. But the city and colony Williams helped to fo……続きを見る

This book contains a wide variety of relevant historical commentaries, including: the history of the American Revolution, Defects of the Articles of Confederation, the "three-fifths rule", the faile……続きを見る

Founded in 1670, Charleston is among the oldest cities in the nation and site of some of the most pivotal events in American history. Explore the city and discover the Old Exchange and Provost Dunge……続きを見る

In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the Engl……続きを見る

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run t……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson’s conviction that the health of the nation’s democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of ……続きを見る

Long before he founded his Quaker commonwealth in America, William Penn stood up for religious freedom against the awesome power of the England's monarchy - and put the entire Western world in his d……続きを見る

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutiona……続きを見る

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents a……続きを見る

R. A. Van Middeldyk's "The History of Puerto Rico" is an exhaustive scholarly work that explores the multifaceted narrative of Puerto Rico from its indigenous roots to contemporary society. Employin……続きを見る

Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifti……続きを見る

“The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims - And Its Place in Life Today” is a 1911 account of the events and forces that prompted the famed landing in Plymouth of the 'Mayflower', an English shi……続きを見る

My Mother’s Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother’s daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery. Each woman finds her own way to develop unsuspect……続きを見る

Territoire majeur du premier empire colonial français, la Nouvelle-France n’occupe néanmoins pas la place qui lui revient dans les livres d’histoire. Elle s’étendait de l’embouchure du fleuve Saint-……続きを見る

Brown here explores America's first communications revolution--the revolution that made printed goods and public oratory widely available and, by means of the steamboat, railroad and telegraph, shar……続きを見る

My Mother’s Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother’s daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery. Each woman finds her own way to develop unsuspect……続きを見る

In 'The Popham Colony: A Discussion of its Historical Claims, with a Bibliography of the Subject', the editors present a nuanced exploration of one of America's earliest English settlements. This as……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes About the Author "Frederic Kidder (1804 – 1885) was an American author and antiquarian. He was born in New Ipswi……続きを見る

In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the na……続きを見る

On February 22, 1770, a group of teenagers began throwing stones and rocks at the home of British customs official Ebenezer Richardson, who tried to disperse the teens by firing a shot to scare the ……続きを見る

From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and libe……続きを見る

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutiona……続きを見る