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Colonial Period (1600-1775) eBooks

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  • "For the Good of Their Souls"

    Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country

    Series series Native Americans of the Northeast
    In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened its mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about one-fifth of the Mohawks in the area began attending services. They even adapted versions of the service ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "Good News from New England" by Edward Winslow

    A Scholarly Edition

    Edited by Kelly Wisecup ...
    Series series Native Americans of the Northeast
    First published in 1624, Edward Winslow's Good News from New England chronicles the early experience of the Plimoth colonists, or Pilgrims, in the New World. For several years Winslow acted as the Pilgrims' primary negotiator with New England Algonquians, including the Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Narragansett Indians. During this period he was credited with having cured the Wampanoag sachem ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • "Myne Owne Ground"

    Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

    Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • "Those Who Labor for My Happiness"

    Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

    Series series Jeffersonian America
    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 view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of which was made possible by the work of slaves. At the center of this transition has been the work of Lucia "Cinder" Stanton, recognized as the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 'Poor Carolina'

    Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776

    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 settlement and the influx of migrant groups with high material hopes, particularly since the colony's economy remained underdeveloped during much of the century. Fresh analyses are drawn of Governor ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 1493

    Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. • "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." —The New York Times Book ReviewPresenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 1607

    Jamestown and the New World

    1607 vividly tells the story of the founding of Jamestown, recounting the situation of the original Indian inhabitants, the arrival of the British settlers 400 years ago, the building of the town, and modern excavations at the site. Along the way, we meet such familiar figures as King James, John Smith, and Pocahontas. We also come across strange episodes of cannibalism and skullduggery, heroism ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1619

    Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

    by James Horn ...
    The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia.Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 1759, La chute de l'Amérique française

    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-Laurent au delta du fleuve Mississippi. Fondé en 1534 par l’explorateur Jacques Cartier, le Canada français devient la plus importante des colonies de la Nouvelle-France. Rapidement, cette colonie ... Read more

    $5.54 USD

  • 1774

    The Long Year of Revolution

    From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1775

    A Good Year for Revolution

    The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American RevolutionIn 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775—Congress’s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England’s rage militaire, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 1776

    Series Book 1 - The Thomas Fleming Library
    In this New York Times bestseller, historian Thomas Fleming examines all the dimensions of the memorable year of 1776 - particularly the common, fallible humanity of the men and women of the American Revolution. The year 1776 ended with both the Americans and the British stripped of their illusions. Each side had been forced to abandon the myth of invincibility and confront the realities of human ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1776: The World Turned Upside Down

    Series Book 1 - 1776: The World Turned Upside Down
    In collaboration with The Associated Press, Serial Box presents our first nonfiction series, 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-part month-by-month immersive account of ordinary colonists during America’s first year. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 1st Grade American History: Early Pilgrims of America

    First Grade Books

    Series series Children's American History Books
    Did you know that children are more photographic than they are textual? Science says so; therefore, it important to use the right resources that would tap their interest. With that, a good tool to use when teaching about history is a picture book. Picture books illustrate what words fail to create pictures. They are engaging and are a highly relaxing approach to learning. Buy a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 5th Grade US History Textbook: Colonial America - Birth of A Nation

    Fifth Grade Books US Colonial Period

    Series series Children's American Revolution History
    The birth of a nation is always riddled with complexities, wars, and victories. All those names, dates and other details may prove to be difficult for a 5th grade to process. But with these interactive educational books, information is more easily and effectively absorbed. Let the pictures in this book tell the story. Order a copy now! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 6th Grade American History: Founding Fathers and Leaders

    American Revolution Kids Sixth Grade Books

    Series series Children's American Revolution History
    Make history fun even with all the dates and information in tact with the use of this accurately summarized history book. The use of pictures and select texts attract the attention and make the lesson much more memorable. Since the presentation is effective and simple, learning becomes self-paced and much more personalized. Order a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Francis Parkman: 8 History Classics

    This file includes: Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV, The Discovery of the Great West, Half-Century of Conflict, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, Montcalm and Wolfe, The Oregon Trail, Pioneers of France in the New World, and The Conspiracy of Pontiac. According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Beautiful and Fruitful Place

    Selected Rensselaerwijck Papers, Volume 2

    Series series Excelsior Editions
    New Netherland's distinctive regional history as well as the colony's many relationships with Europe and the seventeenth-century Atlantic world are featured in the second collection of papers from the widely praised annual Rensselaerwijck Seminar. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic critique and offer the latest research on a dynamic range of topics: the age of exploration, domestic ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Benjamin Franklin Reader

    A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America’s favorite founder and wit. Includes an introductory essay exploring Franklin’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews

    A remarkable reference for those interested in American Jewish history, comprising approximately four thousand names and supplemental data.Here is a near complete list of persons identifiable as Jews in America by 1800, the result of a thorough search of manuscript materials and published literature for the names of Jews who lived in America (including Canada up to 1783) during the seventeenth and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Blessed Company

    Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776

    In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Book of American Explorers

    The narratives of early explorers of the American coast are as thrilling as any adventure story. Thomas Wentworth Higginson's 'A Book of American Explorers' extracts the most interesting parts of these stories, keeping the original language and grammar intact. Through this, Higginson aims to give readers a taste for these fascinating tales and inspire them to explore the original sources further. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brave and Cunning Prince

    The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America

    by James Horn ...
    The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homelandIn the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back to Spain and subsequently to Mexico. The boy converted to Catholicism and after nearly a decade was able to return to his land with a group of Jesuits to establish a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Brave Vessel

    The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown

    "At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative." -Nathaniel PhilbrickMerging maritime adventure and early colonial history, A Brave Vessel charts a little-known chapter of the past that offers a window on the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's greatest works. In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail for the New World aboard the Sea Venture, only to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD