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  • The Shame and the Sorrow

    Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland

    by Donna Merwick ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Shame and the Sorrow

    Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland

    by Donna Merwick ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Stuyvesant Bound

    An Essay on Loss Across Time

    by Donna Merwick ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his responsibilities, ultimately reappraising the view of Stuyvesant long held by the majority of U.S. historians and commentators.Borrowing its form from the genre of eighteenth- and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Stuyvesant Bound

    An Essay on Loss Across Time

    by Donna Merwick ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his responsibilities, ultimately reappraising the view of Stuyvesant long held by the majority of U.S. historians and commentators.Borrowing its form from the genre of eighteenth- and ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

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  • The Barbarous Years

    The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Stono

    Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt

    Edited by Mark M. Smith ...
    A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than sixty whites and thirty slaves died in the violence that followed. Among the ... Read more

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  • American Colonies

    The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

    by Alan Taylor, Eric Foner ...
    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • First Principles

    What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
    New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review"Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of DefenseThe Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling auth... ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

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  • The Island at the Center of the World

    by Russell Shorto ...
    **In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history.UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE AND POSTSCRIPT"Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times**When the ... Read more

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  • The Americans: The Colonial Experience

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 1 - Americans Series
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeIn this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

    by David Brion Davis ...
    **Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General NonfictionShortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature**From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly fifty years in the making.David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of the twentieth century, ... Read more

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  • Firsting and Lasting

    Writing Indians out of Existence in New England

    by Jean M. O’Brien ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in ... Read more

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