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Colonial America (1492-1793)Edited by James Ciment With an introduction by Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania Includes: Topic Finder, thematic essays, A-Z entries, illustrations, maps, topical chronologies, glossary, primary documents, primary and secondary bibliographies Awards: Editors’ Choice, Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Outstanding Reference Source, Reference and User Services Association, ALA Pennsylvania School Library Association Best Reference for Young Adults Reviews: “Colonial America fills a gap in the spectrum of colonial reference sources. ...This is an excellent source for students and other general readers who want to sample a variety of topics or get ideas for paper topics. It is highly recommended for high-school, public, and college libraries.” Booklist, starred review “This is an extremely accessible and readable reference tool... Entries are well written and exceptionally well cross-referenced, and include brief bibliographies. ...A topic guide and general, biographical, and geographical indexes make this encyclopedia a delight to use. ...Highly recommended. Academic libraries supporting lower-/upper-level undergraduates; public and high school libraries serving general readers.” Choice “...a good source of original materials... this resource provides a sturdy overview of Colonial America; high school, college, and larger public libraries should consider purchasing it.” Library Journal “...should be welcome by students of early American history. Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History is a solid contribution and a worthy addition to serious American history reference collections.” Against the Grain “ …highly recommended for all high school and undergraduate libraries, and large public libraries serving interested general readers and researchers.” Reference & User Services Quarterly Description: No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the outlines of America’s distinctive political culture, economic system, social life, and cultural patterns began to emerge. Designed to complement the high-school American history curriculum as well as undergraduate survey courses, Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, and events that helped establish and define the United States of America. While it focuses on the thirteen British colonies along the Atlantic Coast, Colonial America sets this history in a larger context. Entries also cover Canada, the American Southwest and Mexico, and the Caribbean and Atlantic world as they impacted the history of the thirteen colonies. This encyclopedia explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life in the immediate pre-contact period, early Spanish exploration, and the first settlements by Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists. Including major thematic essays, hundreds of easy-to-reference entries, thematic and regional chronologies, an extensive collection of primary documents, and hundreds of illustrations and maps, this monumental reference work brings America’s colonial heritage vibrantly to life for today's readers. Contents: Introduction: Studying the Colonial Era Chronologies Primary Documents Glossary Abenaki Acadia, Nova Scotia Acadians Acapulco Adams, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Samuel African Americans Agriculture Albany Congress (1754) Alcohol Alexander, Mary Spratt Provoost American Philosophical Society Anabaptists Andros, Sir Edmund Anglican Church Anne, Queen Antigua Appalachia Arawak Armada, Spanish Army, British Art, Cartoons, and Broadsides Art, Fine Art, Folk Artisans Arts, Culture, and Intellectual Life (overview) Assemblies, Colonial Atlantic Ocean Azores and Madeira Aztec Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion Baltimore Banks and Banking Baptists Barbados Bartram Family Bathing and Hygiene Beaver Wars Berkeley, Sir William Bermuda Bible Board of Trade Boone, Daniel Borderlands, Spanish Boston Boston Massacre Boston Port Bill Boston Tea Party Braddock, Edward Bradford, William Bradstreet, Anne Brant, Joseph Brant, Mary “Molly” Brent, Margaret Bunker Hill, Battle of Cabot, John Cabrillo, Juan RodrÍguez California Calvert, Cecilius Calvert, George (First Lord Baltimore) Calvinism Canada Canary Islands Cape Cod Captivity (by Native Americans) Carib Caribbean Sea Carteret, Sir George Cartier, Jacques Catholic Church Cayuga Champlain, Samuel de Charles I Charles II Charles V Charleston Cherokee Chesapeake Chickasaw Child Rearing Children Choctaw Christ and Christianity Cities Class Clocks and Timekeeping Clothing Coercive Acts (1774) Coffee Columbian Exchange Columbus, Christopher Committees of Correspondence Common Sense (1776) Connecticut Connecticut River Constantinople, Fall of Continental Congress, First Continental Congress, Second Coode’s Rebellion Copley, John Singleton Corn Coronado, Francisco VÁzquez de CortÉz, Hernando Cotton Cotton, John Covenants Creek Crime Cromwell, Oliver Cuba Cumberland Gap Currency Currency Act (1764) Dartmouth, Lord Daughters of Liberty Death and Dying Debt and Debtor’s Prison Deism Delaware Delaware River De Soto, Hernando Detroit Dickinson, John Diplomacy (Foreign Affairs) Disease Dominicans Drake, Sir Francis Dulany, Daniel, Jr Dulany, Daniel, Sr Dunmore, Lord Dutch Dutch West India Company East India Company Economy, Business, and Labor (overview) Edict of Nantes, Revocation of Education Education, Higher Edwards, Jonathan Elizabeth I English English Civil War Enlightenment Environment and Nature Equiano, Olaudah Erie Exploration Family Ferdinand and Isabella Fish and Fisheries Florida Food and Diet Fort Duquesne Fort Orange Fortifications Franciscans Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, William Free Blacks French French and Indian War Furnishings Furs Gage, Thomas Gambling Gender Issues (overview) George I George II George III Georgia Germans Glorious Revolution God Gorges, Ferdinando Government, Spanish Colonial Grain Great Awakening Great Lakes Green Mountain Boys Grenville, George Hakluyt, Richard Halifax Hamilton, Alexander Hancock, John Harriot, Thomas Harvard College Henry, Patrick Hispaniola Hooker, Thomas Hopi Horses House of Burgesses Housing Hudson, Henry Hudson River Huguenots Humboldt, Alexander von Huron Hutchinson, Anne Hutchinson, Thomas Immigration Indentured Servitude Indigo Inheritance Inns and Taverns (Public Houses) Iron Iroquois Confederacy Jamaica James I James II Jamestown Jay, John Jefferson, Thomas Jesuits Jews Johnson, Sir William Joint-Stock Companies Jolliet, Louis Kentucky Kieft’s War King George’s War King Philip’s War King’s College Kitchens, Colonial Laborers, Rural Laborers, Urban Land and Real Estate Landlords Language La Salle, RenÉ Robert Cavelier, Sieur de Las Casas, BartolomÉ de Law and Courts Lee, Richard Henry Leisler, Jacob Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Lexington and Concord, Battles of Libraries Literature Livestock Locke, John Long Island Louis XIV Louisiana Loyalists Maine Malaria Manufacturing Maps and Surveys Marquette, Jacques Marriage and Divorce Mary I Maryland Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Massachusetts Bay Charter Massachusetts Bay Colony Massasoit Mather, Cotton Mather, Increase Maya Mayflower Compact MenÉndez de AvilÉs, Pedro Mercantilism Merchants Methodist Church Mexico City Military and Diplomatic Affairs (overview) Militias Ministers and the Ministry Missions Mississippi River Mohawk Mohegan Montcalm, Louis-Joseph Montezuma II Montreal Murray, Judith Sargent Music Natchez Native American–African American Relations Native American–European Conflict Native American–European Relations Native Americans Native Americans and Slavery Navajo Navigation Acts (1651–1733) Navy, British Negro Election Day New Amsterdam New Bern New England, Dominion of New Hampshire New Haven New Jersey New Mexico New Netherland New Orleans New Spain New York New York City Newfoundland Newport Newspapers and Journals North, Lord North Carolina Northwest Passage Of Plymouth Plantation Oglethorpe, James Ohio Country Oliver, Andrew OÑate, Juan de Oneida Onondaga Opechancanough Orphans Otis, James Ottawa Paine, Thomas Patriots Patroons Paxton Boys Peddlers Penn, William Pennsylvania Pequot Philadelphia Philip, King (Metacom) Philip II Piedmont Pietism Pilgrims Piracy Pitt, William Plantations Planters Plymouth Pocahontas Politics and Government (overview) Ponce de LeÓn, Juan Pontiac Poor Richard’s Almanack Population and Demographics Portsmouth, New Hampshire Potomac River Powhatan Powhatan Confederacy Praying Towns Precious Metals Presbyterianism Prisons and Punishment Proclamation of 1763 Property and Property Rights Prostitution Providence Pueblo Puerto Rico Puritanism Quakers Quebec Act (1774) Quebec City Queen Anne’s War Quincy, Josiah, Jr Race and Ethnicity (overview) Raleigh, Sir Walter Reading and Literacy Reformation Regulators Religion (overview) Religions, African Religions, Native American Revere, Paul Revolutionary War Rhode Island Rice Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, The (1764) Riots Roanoke Colony Rolfe, John Rowlandson, Mary Royal African Company Rush, Benjamin Saint-Domingue Salem Santa Fe Savannah Science Scots-Irish Seminole Seneca Sermons Serra, Fray JunÍpero Servants, Domestic Sex Shakers Ship’s Stores Sint Eustatius Slave Communities and Culture Slave Rebellions Slave Trade Slavery, African American Slavery, Caribbean Smallpox Smith, John Sons of Liberty South Carolina Sports and Recreation Squanto St. Augustine St. Kitts St. Lawrence River St. Louis Stamp Act (1765) Stuyvesant, Peter Sugar Sugar Act (1764) Susquehanna Swedes Syphilis Taino Taylor, Edward Tea Tea Act (1773) Technology Tenant Farming Tennessee Texas Theater Tidewater Tobacco Tools Tordesillas, Treaty of (1494) Townshend, Charles Townshend Acts (1767) Trade Transportation, Land Transportation, Water Triangle Trade Tuscarora Tuscarora War Vermont Verrazano, Giovanni da Vespucci, Amerigo Vikings Virginia Virginia Company War War of Jenkins’ Ear Warren, Mercy Otis Washington, George Weaponry West, Benjamin Wheatley, Phillis Whitefield, George Widows and Widowers Wilkes, John William and Mary, College of William III of Orange and Mary II Williams, Roger Williamsburg Winslow, Josiah Winthrop, John Witchcraft and Witch Trials Wolfe, James Women Wright, Susanna Yale College Yamasee Yamasee War Yeomanry Zenger, John Peter Zuni Chronologies Thematic Arts, Culture, and Intellectual Life Economy, Business, and Labor Gender Issues Military and Diplomatic Affairs Politics and Government Race and Ethnicity Religion Science and Technology Geographic Caribbean Connecticut Delaware French Colonies on Mainland North America Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York and New Netherland North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Spanish Colonies on Mainland North America Virginia Primary Documents Columbus’s Letter Announcing His Discoveries in the New World (1493) John Cabot’s Discovery of North America (1497) The Founding of St. Augustine (1565) The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (c. 1570) A Call for English Colonization of America (1584) The Jamestown Settlement (1607–1609) The Mayflower Compact (1620) Rights and Privileges of Patroons (1629) A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) Psalm 23 from The Bay Psalm Book (1640) Maryland Toleration Act (1649) Connecticut Blue Laws (1650) Virginia Slave Laws (1660s) Upon the Burning of Our House (1666) John Eliot and His Work with Native Americans (1670) Probate Inventory of a Plymouth Colony Estate (1672) Marquette’s Travels on the Mississippi (1673) Governor William Berkeley on Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) Protest of German Quakers Against Slavery (1688) John Clayton’s Report on Virginia (1688) Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England (1688) The Salem Witch Trial of Susanna Martin (1692) Thomas Brattle on the Salem Trials (1692) A Poem Recalling the Hanging of a Relative due to the Salem Witch Trials (in 1692; pub.1857) Raising Colonial Children (1699) Founding of New Sweden (1700s) Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701) The Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight (1704) The French and the Fur Trade (1724) A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency (1729) Oglethorpe’s Vision for the Founding of Georgia (1733) The Trial of Peter Zenger (1735) Maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanack (1739) The Demand for Slavery in Georgia (1743) Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (c. 1744) Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748) Gottlieb Mittelberger on Immigration to the Colonies (c. 1750) Captivity Narrative of Mary Jemison in the 1750s (pub. 1824) A Report on the Kite Experiment (1752) Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin (1752, 1753, 1769) Founding Colleges in America (1754) Colonial Recipe for Apple Tansey (1754) Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (in 1755; pub. 1847) Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764) Townshend Revenue Act (1767) Newspaper Account of the Boston Massacre (1770) On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (1770) On Being Brought from Africa to America (early 1770s) A Tutor and his Pupils (1773–1774) The Boston Port Act (1774) Slave Petition to the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts (1774) A Case for Non-Interference by Parliament (1775) Petition of London Merchants for Reconciliation with the Colonies (1775) Tobacco Growing (1775) Common Sense (1776) Letters between Abigail Adams and John Adams (1776) The Declaration of Independence (1776) |
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