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From Africa to Brazil
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00Traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. more...
Colonies and Revolution
Wiley 2003; US$ 22.95Find out what life was like in colonial America from the people who lived it! This first book in the American Heritage American Voices series will give you a rare glimpse into the day-to-day experiences of early Americans. You'll learn from fourteen-year-old George Washington about his Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour (such as "Do not laugh... more...
A Companion to Colonial America
Wiley 2008; US$ 218.95A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits. Coverage includes politics, religion, migration,... more...
Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants
University of California Press 2004; US$ 31.95California?s earliest European colonists?Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries?depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the past?including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and... more...
Betrayals
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 18.99On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "parole of honor" offered by General Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their families and servants to Fort Edward some miles south, they were set upon by the Indian... more...
Bowing to Necessities
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 44.99Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness?... more...
American Colonies
Penguin Group US 2002; US$ 18.00With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in... more...
Epidemics and Enslavement
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 50.00Tracing the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast, this work concludes that, while indigenous peoples suffered from an array of ailments before contact, Natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts in the sixteenth century. more...
Contested Commonwealths
Lehigh University Press 2011; US$ 85.00United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts - the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular ideology in songs and almanacs, and the thought... more...
The Glorious Revolution in America
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 23.99An outstanding examination of the Crises that lead to the colonial rebellions of 1689. more...









