In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth.

Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy shows how the extraction of each commodity had an impact on the New England landscape, creating a new colonial ecology inextricably tied to the broader transatlantic economy beyond its shores.

Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.

Carefully researched and documented, this book finally provides conclusive evidence that the Chowan River Dare Stone is a clever 20th century fraud.

This book will make important contributions to several fields, including technical and commercial communication, early American literature, Renaissance literature (especially prose studies), and rhetorical theory and practice.

This work consists largely of accounts and lists of early settlers and settlements, historical sketches of Georgia counties, and the following appendices: Headrights Granted by the Colonial and State Governments from 1754 to 1800, a List of ...

Examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the attempts of native peoples to make sense of the newcomers who threatened to transform their world in frightening ways.

Veertien mensen eindigden op de brandstapel, zeventien aan de galg. In dit meesterlijk geschreven boek reconstrueert Jill Lepore deze dramatische periode – zwarte bladzijden uit zowel het Nederlandse als het Amerikaanse slavernijverleden.

This book illustrates how, through fascinating and often surprising events, this unlikely inter-religious influence helped shape the United States and American identity.

An archeologist's lively illustrated portrayal of 18th-century America's most infamous siege and massacre.