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  • The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820

    Edited by Eliga Gould, Paul Mapp, Carla Gardina Pestana ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of America and the World
    The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Cultures in Conflict

    The Seven Years' War in North America

    by Fred Anderson, Catherine Desbarats, Jonathan R. Dull, Allan Greer, Eric Hinderaker, Woody Holton, Paul Mapp, Timothy J. Shannon ...
    The Seven Years' War (1754–1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts understood and experienced the war (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Colonial North America and the Atlantic World

    A History in Documents

    by Brett Rushforth, Paul Mapp ...
    A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women¿Amerindian, African, and European¿who together forged a new world.These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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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

  • A Brief History of Slavery

    A New Global History

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the present in the form of contemporary crimes such as trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Colonial America:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free land." Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

    by B. W. Higman ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Birth of America

    From Before Columbus to the Revolution

    by William R. Polk ...
    In this provocative account of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events, individuals, and themes of this critical period. With vivid descriptions of the societies that people from Europe came from and with an emphasis on what they believed they were going to, Polk introduces the native Indians encountered in the New World and the black Africans who were brought across the Atlantic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rediscovery of America

    Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    by Ned Blackhawk Y ...
    Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
    **A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Caribbean

    A History of the Region and Its Peoples

    Edited by Stephan Palmié, Francisco A. Scarano ...
    An "illuminating" survey of Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    by Prof. J. H. Elliott FBA ...
    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD