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Annals of Colonial North America
Author: Letters, Journals, & Diaries of ye Colonial America
Author: Don CorblyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557180732
Category : American diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
These 93 stories provide a unique insight into the lives of mostly ordinary colonial people who lived in extraordinary times. Read the first description of the New World in the exploring ship captain's logbook, a letter from the first indentured servant, and the trial of Bridget Bishop, the first person hung for witchcraft in Salem. Compare the diary of the richest man in Virginia to Mary Cooper's diary wherein she longed for rest from her labors.Read 16-year-old George Washington's Rules of Civility, the pathetic letter from near-destitute indentured Elizabeth Sprig, Benjamin Franklin's account of Grime's confession and hanging, John Adams' defense of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre, and the first prayer given in the First Continental Congress.Read 16-year-old Sally Wister's diary of the battle of Germantown, a journal of the participants in the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's account of his Midnight Ride, and newspaper accounts of President Washington's death and funeral.
Annals of North America, Being a Concise Account of the Important Events in the United States, the British Provinces, and Mexico...
Author: Edward HowlandPublisher:
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Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Colonial North America and the Atlantic World
Author: Brett RushforthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315510316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women¿Amerindian, African, and European¿who together forged a new world.These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests and English farmers, Indian diplomats and Dutch governors, French explorers and African abolitionists. Evoking the remarkable complexity created by the bridging of the Atlantic Ocean, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World suggests that the challenges of globalization¿and the growing reality of American diversity¿are among the most important legacies of the colonial world.
Beyond 1492
Author: James AxtellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195080335
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history. Three essays view the invasion of North America from the perspective of the Indians, whose land it was. The very first meetings, he finds, were nearly always peaceful. Other essays describe native encounters with colonial traders--creating "the first consumer revolution"--and Jesuit missionaries in Canada and Mexico. Despite the tragedy of many of the encounters, Axtell also finds that there was much humor in Indian-European negotiations over peace, sex, and war. In the final section he conducts searching analyses of how college textbooks treat the initial century of American history, how America's human face changed from all brown in 1492 to predominantly white and black by 1792, and how we handled moral questions during the Quincentenary. He concludes with an extensive review of the Quincentenary scholarship--books, films, TV, and museum exhibits--and suggestions for how we can assimilate what we have learned.
Annals of North America
Author: Edward HowlandPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Stephen FosterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199206120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Poses the question: to what extent did it make a difference to those living in the colonies that made up British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that they were part of an empire and that the empire in question was British?
Women in New France
Author: Katherine E. LawnPublisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The invasion within
Author: James AxtellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195035964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Colonial North America was not only a battleground for furs and land, but for allegiances as well. While the colonial French and English were locked in heated competition for the most native allies, the Indians sought to preserve their own independence, alighning themselves only when necessary with the colonial group that offered the best material and spiritual wares. Here, ethnohistorian James Axtell takes a fresh look at this contest of cultures to reveal why and how the French and Indians were able to rise so effectively to the challenge posed by English imperial design. Although the English offered better trade goods, they were ultimately defeated by their own stubborn need to impose their way of life on the reluctant native Americans. The French Jesuits, on the other hand, managed to keep the English at bay for a century and a half by adapting themselves to native life and so converting thousands of Indians to Catholicism. this is the first of three volumes in James Axtell's new series, THE CULTURAL ORIGINS OF NORTH AMERICA. The series is designed to provide an overview of the realtions between the three separate cultures that together formed America's roots, and offers a new perspective on America's colonial past.
The European and the Indian
Author: James AxtellPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195029046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Drawing on a wide variety of source, Axtell explores the cultural adjustments that occurred when white Europeans met and attempted to 'civilize' the native Americans.