Author: Robert ProudPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902318X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Penguin History of the United States of America
Author: Hugh BroganPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - both the good and the bad. He provides a masterly synthesis of all the latest research illustrating America's rapid growth from humble beginnings to global dominance.
The History of Pennsylvania, in North America
Author: Robert ProudPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902318X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Pilgrims of New England; A Tale Of The Early American Settlers
Author: J. B. WebbPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387337108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Pilgrims Of New England: A Tale Of The Early American Settlers
Author: Mrs. J. B. WebbPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9359326356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Pilgrims of New England" is a historical novel penned by Mrs. J. B. Webb, offering a captivating glimpse into the lives and trials of the early settlers who embarked on the perilous journey to establish Plymouth Colony in the early 17th century. The narrative powerfully depicts the pilgrims' unrelenting search of religious freedom and their struggle to make a new life in a strange region, set against the harsh backdrop of the New England wilderness. Mrs. J. B. Webb's storytelling deftly ties together these pioneers' personal tales, showing their perseverance, determination, and unflinching faith in the face of hardship. Readers follow the characters as they struggle with harsh weather, contacts with indigenous peoples, and the difficulties of building a nascent town. The book also dives into the intricacies of intercultural exchanges, emphasizing the pilgrims' struggles to build alliances and negotiate their new home's strange environment. "Pilgrims of New England" not only presents a historical record but also a profound analysis of human courage and the enduring human spirit throughout the narrative.
Liberty Is Sweet
Author: Woody HoltonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476750394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes. Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans—enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters—and on overlooked factors such as weather, North America’s unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics. Liberty Is Sweet is a “must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation” (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turn—for example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the war—this majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.
Early American Rebels
Author: Noeleen McIlvennaPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469656078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England's North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals. Demanding a say in their own destinies, rebels moved around the region looking for a place to build a democratic political system. This book crosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, Parson Waugh's Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organized by one connected group of people. Adding land records and genealogical research to traditional sources, Noeleen McIlvenna challenges standard narratives that disdain poor whites or leave them out of the history of the colonial South. She makes the case that the women of these families played significant roles in every attempt to establish a more representative political system before 1700. McIlvenna integrates landless immigrants and small farmers into the history of the Chesapeake region and argues that these rebellious anti-authoritarians should be included in the pantheon of the nation's Founders.
Mary Derwent; a Tale of the Early American Settlers
Author: Ann Sophia StephensGender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier
Author: Cynthia Culver PrescottPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
The Colonial Background of the American Revolution
Author: Charles McLean AndrewsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300000047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A penetrating treatise of Colonial development focuses on British political and economic expectations and gradually evolving American patterns of life and thought
Author: Edmund Burke