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  • The Ordeal of the Longhouse

    The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization

    by Daniel K. Richter ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Philadelphia Stories

    People and Their Places in Early America

    by C. Dallett Hemphill ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    For the average tourist, the history of Philadelphia can be like a leisurely carriage ride through Old City. The Liberty Bell. Independence Hall. Benjamin Franklin. The grooves in the cobblestone are so familiar, one barely notices the ride. Yet there are other paths to travel, and the ride can be bumpy. Beyond the famed founders, other Americans walked the streets of Philadelphia whose lives were ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Philadelphia Stories

    People and Their Places in Early America

    by C. Dallett Hemphill ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    For the average tourist, the history of Philadelphia can be like a leisurely carriage ride through Old City. The Liberty Bell. Independence Hall. Benjamin Franklin. The grooves in the cobblestone are so familiar, one barely notices the ride. Yet there are other paths to travel, and the ride can be bumpy. Beyond the famed founders, other Americans walked the streets of Philadelphia whose lives were ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Trade, Land, Power

    The Struggle for Eastern North America

    by Daniel K. Richter ...
    In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood the close relationship between political power and control of trade and land ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Facing East from Indian Country

    A Native History of Early America

    by Daniel K. Richter ...
    In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Race and the Early Republic

    Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic

    by David Brion Davis, Jon Gjerde, Lois E. Horton, Joanne Pope Melish, Daniel K. Richter, David R. Roediger, James P. Ronda, Lacy K. Ford ...
    By 1840, American politics was a paradox-unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the 'white republic.' Race and the Early Republic offers a rich account of how this paradox evolved, beginning with the fledgling nation of the 1770s ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Trade, Land, Power

    The Struggle for Eastern North America

    by Daniel K. Richter ...
    In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood the close relationship between political power and control of trade and land ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Facing East from Indian Country

    A Native History of Early America

    by Daniel K Richter ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to ... Read more

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
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  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

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