Colonial Period Books


The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New EnglandThe Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Best Price: $2.99
I thought that the book told about witchcraft in a new light. It brought many issues in the...
Jamestown Exposition, Vol. 2 (Images of America: Virginia)Jamestown Exposition, Vol. 2 (Images of America: Virginia)
Best Price: $13.23
The fascinating story of the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, a tricentennial celebration of...
Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial AmericaInterpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America
Best Price: $13.62
This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new...
Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North AmericaCultures in Conflict: The Seven Years' War in North America
Best Price: $25.44
The Seven Years' War (1754-1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world....
John AdamsJohn Adams
Best Price: $5.38
David McCullough's John Adams seeks to restore John Adams to his rightful place among the...


Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless MindJefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind
Best Price: $3.00
This book is a Bildungsroman: the Education of Thomas Jefferson. It's the story of how...
Daniel Boone and Others on the Kentucky Frontier: Autobiographies and Narratives, 1769-1795Daniel Boone and Others on the Kentucky Frontier: Autobiographies and Narratives, 1769-1795
Best Price: $38.40
This is a book of collected primary sources about frontier Kentucky edited by Reid. These...
Early North AmericaEarly North America
Best Price: $11.00
Welcome to the fascinating world of early North America - the land that once was home to...
Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New YorkDeath of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
Best Price: $15.27
Donna Merwick's "Death of a Notary" is history/biography of the one person who...
The Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft TrialsThe Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Best Price: $18.00
Peter Hoffer examines the roots of the witch hunt in Salem by actually telling the narrative of...


Fort McIntosh, Fort Pitt, Logstown: Three Historical SketchesFort McIntosh, Fort Pitt, Logstown: Three Historical Sketches
Best Price: $25.86
Fort McIntosh Fort McIntosh at the site of present-day Beaver, Pennsylvania, was built by...
The Hidden Galleon: The true story of a lost Spanish ship and the legendary wild horses of Assateague IslandThe Hidden Galleon: The true story of a lost Spanish ship and the legendary wild horses of Assateague Island
Best Price: $19.99
The Hidden Galleon is the story of the author's exhaustive search for the La Galga and the...
Sotterley: Her People and Their WorldsSotterley: Her People and Their Worlds
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (Volume 5-6, pt.2)La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (Volume 5-6, pt.2)
Best Price: $18.40
Volume: 5-6, pt.2 Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown Publication date: 1897 Subjects: La...
Lettres de Monsieur le Marquis de Montcalm, Gouverneur-General En Canada; A Messieurs de Berryer (French Edition)Lettres de Monsieur le Marquis de Montcalm, Gouverneur-General En Canada; A Messieurs de Berryer (French Edition)
Best Price: $14.13
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...

The Writings Of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, With Appendix. CorrespondenceThe Writings Of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, With Appendix. Correspondence
Best Price: $25.22
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional...
Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First SpyNathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy
Best Price: $7.49
Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: ?I only regret that I...
Magnalia Christi Americana (Amer Philosophy, Religion)Magnalia Christi Americana (Amer Philosophy, Religion)
Best Price: $23.46
"With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources...
Postcolonial Romanticisms (Postcolonial Studies)Postcolonial Romanticisms (Postcolonial Studies)
Best Price: $34.24
In his book, Postcolonial Romanticisms (Postcolonial Studies) , Dr Roy Kamada argues that the...
A Beautiful and Fruitful Place, Volume 2: Selected Rensselaerwijck Papers (Excelsior Editions)A Beautiful and Fruitful Place, Volume 2: Selected Rensselaerwijck Papers (Excelsior Editions)
Best Price: $56.95
Second volume of papers from a well respected annual seminar that showcase the latest research...

Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, IdentitiesCreole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities
Best Price: $45.01
Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new...
Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762
Best Price: $20.40
If you are a genealogist and have ancestors in North Carolina in the mid 1700's, you have to...
Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763
Best Price: $16.70
This is an eye-opening study of the relations between colonial Americans and British regular...
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)
Best Price: $15.76
Usner's Indians, Settlers and Slaves is a highly readable and path-breaking study of...
A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)
Best Price: $19.00
John F. Sensbach has written an engaging and erudite synthesis of Moravian attitudes toward...

Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Best Price: $29.94
At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that...
George Washington; a profile (American profiles)George Washington; a profile (American profiles)Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Early American Studies)Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Early American Studies)
Best Price: $19.79
The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and...
Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England (Material Texts)Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England (Material Texts)
Best Price: $59.92
Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated...
Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (Early American Studies)Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (Early American Studies)
Best Price: $92.49
In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in...

Gamaliel Painter: Biography of a Town FatherGamaliel Painter: Biography of a Town Father
Best Price: $4.60
Gamaliel Painter: Biography Of A Town Father is the story of how one adventurous pioneer...
Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699
Best Price: $24.92
I bought this book aware that I had ancestors who lived in Middlesex. What a surprise it was to...
Colonial American Newspapers: Character and ContentColonial American Newspapers: Character and Content
Too bad that this book is out of print. This is an essential read for anyone studying...
The WORLD OF HANNAH HEATON: THE DIARY OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND FARM WOMANThe WORLD OF HANNAH HEATON: THE DIARY OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND FARM WOMAN
Best Price: $47.96
An ordinary eighteenth-century New England woman, Hannah Heaton left an extraordinary document...
What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America : The Colonial Williamsburg Collection (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series)What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America : The Colonial Williamsburg Collection (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series)
Best Price: $135.00
Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but...

How New England Happened: A History and Guide to New England's Cultural LandscapeHow New England Happened: A History and Guide to New England's Cultural LandscapeFranklin: The Essential Founding FatherFranklin: The Essential Founding Father
Best Price: $31.60
"Oh, William!" his exasperated wife is said once to have chided Gladstone, the...
The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614 (Real Voices, Real History)The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614 (Real Voices, Real History)
Best Price: $7.55
The 20 collected writings relating to the English colony of Jamestown in Virginia, the first...
The Papers of Robert Treat Paine: Vol. III: 1774-1777The Papers of Robert Treat Paine: Vol. III: 1774-1777
Best Price: $95.83
Jamestown and the Founding of the NationJamestown and the Founding of the Nation
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The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes (Regional Perspectives on Early America)The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes (Regional Perspectives on Early America)
As stated by the author in the Introduction, there are no ground-breaking revelations from...
Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Early America: History, Context, Culture)Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Early America: History, Context, Culture)
Best Price: $36.83
In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers...
Early New England: A Covenanted Society (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion)Early New England: A Covenanted Society (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion)
Best Price: $27.98
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David...
The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783 (The Iroquoians and Their World)The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783 (The Iroquoians and Their World)
Best Price: $36.49
Winner of the 2010 American Historical Association and Canadian Historical Association's...
Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American SouthMapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South
Best Price: $28.60
During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian...

Secret Judgements of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)Secret Judgements of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Best Price: $12.00
In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss...
Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1891. Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops 1755-1764Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1891. Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops 1755-1764
Best Price: $46.50
Rupp's history of Lancaster County documents the origins and development of this hotbed of...
Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines 1727-1760Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines 1727-1760
Best Price: $16.95
In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the...
The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Best Price: $35.92
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial...
Rape and Sexual Power in Early America (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)Rape and Sexual Power in Early America (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Best Price: $28.50
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and...

Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period (Native Traces)Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period (Native Traces)
Best Price: $95.00
John AdamsJohn Adams
Best Price: $29.00
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John...
Cities In The Wilderness - The First Century Of Urban Life In America 1625-1742Cities In The Wilderness - The First Century Of Urban Life In America 1625-1742
Best Price: $45.95
A first-rate social history of the five leading cities in the American colonies. I first read...
Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Best Price: $6.22
There are any number of reasons to read Ben Franklin's autobiography. For the fetching...
The Female American or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield (Broadview Literary Texts)The Female American or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield (Broadview Literary Texts)
Best Price: $14.86
She's the fictional granddaughter of an actual historical character, Edward Winkfield, first...

Material Life In America, 1600-1860Material Life In America, 1600-1860
Defining material culture in its broadest sense by placing artifacts in the context of social...
Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, & the Contemporary)Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, & the Contemporary)
Best Price: $23.95
This work skillfully profiles the 1704 raid on Deerfield in sections entitled `Creating...
The History of Philip's WarThe History of Philip's War
In 1662, Metacomet (commonly known as King Philip), the younger son of Massasoit, became chief...
Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Revisiting New England)Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Revisiting New England)
Best Price: $13.00
I have just read Richard Archer's newly published "Fissures in the Rock: New...
John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609
Best Price: $21.78
John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages 1607-1609 is a scholarly, extensive, and detailed...

Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Library Alabama Classics)Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Library Alabama Classics)
Best Price: $29.50
Scholarly and well documented but at the same time most readable. I had borrowed a copy of the...
Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860
Best Price: $22.00
Lines in the Sand is Timothy Lockley?s nuanced look at the interaction between nonslaveholding...
James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and StatesmanJames Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman
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James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman presents fresh scholarship on the...
The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial WilliamsburgThe New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
Best Price: $15.00
Colonial Williamsburg is an elaborate fake, run by corporate devils who mercilessly exploit...
Guns at the Forks (Pitt Paperback ; 152)Guns at the Forks (Pitt Paperback ; 152)
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Guns At The Forks tells the story of the five forts that were built at the forks of the Ohio...

Kids in Colonial Times (Kids Throughout History)Kids in Colonial Times (Kids Throughout History)
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This book for early elementary students provides an interesting look into history through...
New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American WritingNew World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing
Best Price: $12.48
New World, Known World examines the works of four writers closely associated with the early...
Martha Washington's Booke of CookeryMartha Washington's Booke of Cookery
This tiny gift book contains some of the original receipes but it was definately not what I...
Jonathan Edwards.: (The American Men of Letters Series)Jonathan Edwards.: (The American Men of Letters Series)
Best Price: $194.15
Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) was preeminent as a theologian in the eighteenth century American...
Twilight of EmpireTwilight of Empire
Best Price: $78.00
Not only is Twilight of Empire a great book, but the whole winning of america series are,...

George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth CenturyGeorge Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
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George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left...
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
Best Price: $75.00
This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity,...
The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classics)The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $2.07
Widely known as a classic literary tale of adventure, The Last of the Mohicans is a story that...
The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730 (Dover Maritime)The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730 (Dover Maritime)
Best Price: $8.99
Most of this book's information is simply a re-hash of previous works, particularly...
Of Plymouth Plantation (Dover Value Editions)Of Plymouth Plantation (Dover Value Editions)
Best Price: $5.68
William Bradford is my direct ancestor and therefore I was raised knowing some things about him...

Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines (Asia Pacific Modern)Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines (Asia Pacific Modern)
Best Price: $13.15
Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by...
The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)
Best Price: $57.20
Richard Gray calls this edition "that rare thing, a landmark anthology,"[...] "a...
Colonial America: A History, 1565 - 1776Colonial America: A History, 1565 - 1776
Best Price: $83.31
Middleton's book, Colonial America, is not your typical 'textbook.' He paints a...
Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American SocietyFounding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
Best Price: $7.58
Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, this novel is about power...
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period (Native Traces)Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period (Native Traces)
Best Price: $95.00

John AdamsJohn Adams
Best Price: $29.00
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John...
Cities In The Wilderness - The First Century Of Urban Life In America 1625-1742Cities In The Wilderness - The First Century Of Urban Life In America 1625-1742
Best Price: $45.95
A first-rate social history of the five leading cities in the American colonies. I first read...
Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Best Price: $6.22
There are any number of reasons to read Ben Franklin's autobiography. For the fetching...
The Female American or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield (Broadview Literary Texts)The Female American or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield (Broadview Literary Texts)
Best Price: $14.86
She's the fictional granddaughter of an actual historical character, Edward Winkfield, first...
Material Life In America, 1600-1860Material Life In America, 1600-1860
Defining material culture in its broadest sense by placing artifacts in the context of social...

Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, & the Contemporary)Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, & the Contemporary)
Best Price: $23.95
This work skillfully profiles the 1704 raid on Deerfield in sections entitled `Creating...
The History of Philip's WarThe History of Philip's War
In 1662, Metacomet (commonly known as King Philip), the younger son of Massasoit, became chief...
Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Revisiting New England)Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Revisiting New England)
Best Price: $13.00
I have just read Richard Archer's newly published "Fissures in the Rock: New...
Colonial America (6th Edition)Colonial America (6th Edition)
Best Price: $57.00
Comprehensive without being superficial, this brief, up-to-date examination of American colonial...
Crisis of the House Divided (Phoenix Paperback Series)Crisis of the House Divided (Phoenix Paperback Series)
Best Price: $11.77
Jaffa's work on "The Crisis of the House Divided" is amazing. The...

Settler and Creole Re-EnactmentSettler and Creole Re-Enactment
Best Price: $62.97
Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected...
Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts (Midland Book, Mb 422)Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts (Midland Book, Mb 422)
Best Price: $2.93
Although not the definitive guide on witchcraft, this book does do justice to the late Middle...
Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650?1750 (Max Kade German-American Research Institute)Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650?1750 (Max Kade German-American Research Institute)
Best Price: $29.95
Immigrant and Entrepreneur examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman...
The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800 (Contributions in American History)The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800 (Contributions in American History)
Best Price: $119.95
Using the New Social History method and examining nearly every document produced over the years...
Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An EncyclopediaWitch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia
Best Price: $87.95
This book provides brief descriptions...not totally in depth, but very informative, nonetheless....

The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference GuideThe Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide
Best Price: $52.80
Despite the fact that the typeface on cover of this book is perhaps too reminiscent of Bram...
Food in Colonial and Federal America (Food in American History)Food in Colonial and Federal America (Food in American History)
Best Price: $27.49
It was a very general overview of colonial and Native American cooking. Some information was...
   
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