8,787円 Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and...

164円 The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut may seem like a quirky name, but behind it is the first written constitution in the history of the West. In 1635 a group of Massachusetts Puritans and Congregationalists who were dissatisfied with the rate of Anglican reforms sought to establish an ecclesiast...

661円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION AUTHOR'S PREFACE I. GENESIS OF ENGLISH COLONIZATION (1492-1579) II. GILBERT AND RALEIGH COLONIES (1583-1602) III. FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA (1602-1608) IV. GLOOM IN VIRGINIA (1608-1617) V. T...

612円 This edition features • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface Introduction I. Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography II. The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors III. The Politics of Fair Play IV. The Farmers' Frontier V. Fair Play Society VI. Leadership and the Problems of the Fr...

2,488円 A 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 United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history ...

3,450円 “Should stand for years as the definitive history of New Orleans’s first century.” ーJonathan Yardley, Washington Post This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, in...

5,963円 This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conques...

5,355円 As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John Winthrop would have proved difficult even had these puritans inhabited the colonies alone, but this was not the case: ...

5,071円 "The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is de...

421円 The docks of seventeenth century London and Bristol funneled yeomen, thieves, whores, and stolen children by the thousands onto tiny, crowded ships bound for Virginia. For decades, second sons of lesser nobility, merchants factors, and land speculators herded sickly throngs aboard, betting that t...

9,119円 The Fault Lines of Empire is a fascinating comparative study of two communities in the early modern British Empire--one in Massachusetts, the other in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Mancke focuses on these two locations to examine how British attempts at reforming their empire impacted the development of...

403円 Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1630 and 1647, the journal describes t...