Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
$19.95 Add to cartFintan O’Toole, columnist and drama critic for the Irish Times, is the author of many other books, including A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His work frequently appears in Ame… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1438427581
- Language: English
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
$20.00 Add to cartTobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when European… [more below]
- Author: Gately, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139604
- Language: English
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
$35.00 Add to cartFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier
- Author: Weidensaul, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0151015155
- Language: English
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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders
$19.95 Read more- Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241414
- Language: English
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
$18.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventee
- Author: Warren, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1631493248
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
$17.00 Add to cartThe classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America’s Declaration of Independence,
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 570
- Publish Date: March 25 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432086
- Language: English
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On Witchcraft
$16.95 Add to cartThe famous 18th-century minister of Boston’s Old North Church provides readers with guidelines for discovering witches, explains how good Christians are tempted, and describes how to resist such tempt… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science
- Author: Mather, Cotton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0486444139
- Language: English
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The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hu… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Emerson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0230623875
- Language: English
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
$22.00 Add to cartA 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 Unite- Series: Penguin History of the United States
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002100
- Language: English
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Borneman, Walter R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0060761857
- Language: English
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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
$19.98 Add to cartIn this superb volume in Oxford’s acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of une… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195331273
- Language: English
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An “Uncertaine Rumor” of Land: New Thoughts on the English Founding of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$15.00 Add to cartThe years 1620 and 1621 saw three small camps – a former Virginia Company salter and his “Jamestown bride;” a recently arrived captain with hired tenants from the crush at Kicotan; ten tenants for the
- Author: Hall, Jenean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0983266018
- Language: English
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A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
$18.99 Add to cart“An absorbing, perceptive biography…Deftly crafted history illuminates the nation’s earliest days.” —Kirkus Reviews
Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea- Author: Mack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1641605987
- Language: English
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Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
$55.00 Add to cartThis book represents the first comprehensive record of all legal documents pertaining to the Salem witch trials, in chronological order. Numerous newly discovered manuscripts, as well as records publi… [more below]
- Author: Rosenthal, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1012
- Publish Date: December 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1107689619
- Language: English
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La Florida: Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories
$34.95 Add to cartLa Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As this book uncovers, it was Spanish influence, and not English, which drove Ameri
- Author: Kokomoor, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1683343522
- Language: English
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
$30.00 Add to cartIn this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years’ War-long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution-takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed,… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0375706364
- Language: English
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$18.00 Add to cart*National Bestseller*
A sweeping account of America’s oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths–about race, gender, and immigration–exposed by the stor… [more below]- Author: Lawler, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974605
- Language: English
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Another Day: More Stories from the Early Colonial Records of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
$21.99 Add to cart“Error in history is like a flock of sheep jumping over a bridge; if one goes, the rest all follow.”
(Charles Campbell, cited by Jennings Cropper Wise in Ye Kingdom of Accawmacke)
In Another Day, Jenean
- Author: Hall, Jenean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0983266034
- Language: English
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Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
$28.99 Add to cartIn July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez and Silvestre V lez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new Spanish missions in California, across the huge expans
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358453
- Language: English
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Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
$29.95 Read moreAs Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-dat
- Author: Bagley, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 24, 2021
- ISBN10: 1684580390
- Language: English
