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Colonial history (1607-1775)

  • Seeking a Better Futureby Lucille H. Campey

    Dundurn 2012; US$ 35.00

    Seeking a Better Future is the first major study of emigration from England to Ontario and Quebec. Extensively documented with previously unpublished passenger lists and details of more than 2,000 ship crossings, the book provides insights on how, why, and when Ontario and Quebec acquired their English settlers. more...

  • Conquered into Libertyby Eliot A Cohen

    Free Press 2011; US$ 17.00

    Americans often think of the Civil War as the conflict that consolidated the United States, including its military values and practices. But there was another, earlier, and more protracted struggle between ?North? and ?South,? beginning in the 1600s and lasting for more than two centuries, that shaped American geopolitics and military culture. Here,... more...

  • Light and the Glory for Young Readers, The (Discovering God's Plan for America)by Peter Marshall; David Manuel; Anna Wilson Fishel

    Baker Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99

    These young readers' editions of the popular history texts reveal how God was at work in America's history from the very beginning. For ages 9-12. more...

  • Contested Commonwealthsby William A. Pencak; John Lax; Ralph J. Crandall

    Lehigh University Press 2011; US$ 85.00

    United 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 Americaby David S. Lovejoy

    Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 23.99

    An outstanding examination of the Crises that lead to the colonial rebellions of 1689. more...

  • Colonial Americaby Richard Middleton; Anne Lombard

    Wiley 2011; US$ 51.95

    Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North... more...

  • From Africa to Brazilby Walter Hawthorne

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00

    Traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. more...

  • Indian Giversby Jack Weatherford

    Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00

    "As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate." THE WASHINGTON POST After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces... more...

  • Colonial America 1543-1763by Infobase Publishing

    Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00

    From the final decades of the 1500s through the mid-1700s, the North American continent witnessed a whirlwind of competition and colonization as European powers vied to establish their place in the northern reaches of the New World. Each power?whether England, France, Holland, Spain, or others?relied on strong-willed individuals who were driven by... more...

  • As If an Enemy's Countryby Richard Archer

    Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 15.99

    In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied... more...