A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the Uni……続きを見る
An early American history of Jamestown, Virginia, ‘The Cultural Roots of the 1622 Indian Attack’ shows the cultural aspects of the lives of both English settlers and American Indians, along with the……続きを見る
For thirteen-year-old Mary Chilton, every day is filled with adventure. She is surrounded by friends and family, and her windmill house feels like a castle to her. But Mary can't forget that her fam……続きを見る
Civic engagement in the City of Brotherly Love gave birth to the American Revolution.
Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
During the colonial era,……続きを見る
Henry Jones Ford (1851-1925) was a political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official who taught at Johns Hopkins University, and afterwards taught at the University of P……続きを見る
This interdisciplinary study examines how age norms shaped the experiences of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in colonial North America, exploring how diverse population groups co……続きを見る
著者:Phil Jones
出版社: Fonthill Media
発売日: 2018年07月01日
The lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was England's first experiment in civilian empire building and the first attempt at peaceful co-existence between Native Americans and the English.……続きを見る
This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since o……続きを見る
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
Introduction
Judge Woodward's Letter to Colonel Proctor
Lieutenant Helm's Letter to Judge Woodward
Lieutenan……続きを見る
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
LETTER OF REVEREND JONAS MICHAELIUS, 1628.
"NOVUM BELGIUM" 1646
"JOURNAL OF NEW NETHERLAND" 1647
BY WHOM AND HOW NEW NET……続きを見る
著者:Kathleen Donegan
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年10月09日
The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: star……続きを見る
Washington was glad to remain at Mount Vernon as long as possible after he had consented to serve as President, enjoying the life of a country gentleman, which was now much more suited to his taste ……続きを見る
著者:Lindsay O'Neill
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2014年10月22日
By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colo……続きを見る
Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America’s most preeminent legal historians, chart……続きを見る
Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex vie……続きを見る
This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treat……続きを見る
In The Shattered Cross, Linda Carol Jones explores the lives and work of five priests of the Séminaire de Québec, the first French Catholic missionaries to serve along the Mississippi River between ……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
著者:Armand Lione PhD
出版社: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
発売日: 2023年09月04日
Read the missing stories of DC's precolonial history.
Native Americans lived on the land that is now Washington, DC for several thousand years before English settlers arrived in the early 1600s. The……続きを見る
The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesーfrom diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons……続きを見る