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A Companion to Colonial America by Publication Date: 2006A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits. Coverage includes politics, religion, migration, gender, ecology, and many others.
British Colonial Settlement
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- American Slavery--American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor E445 .V8 M67 1975Publication Date: 1975
Children in Colonial America by Publication Date: 2006
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England by Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor BR520 .W56 2017Publication Date: 2017Available as an e-book and hard copy.- Family Life in 17th- and 18th-Century America byPublication Date: 2005
- Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth Century Springfield byPublication Date: 1983
The Puritan Experiment by Publication Date: 1995- Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware, 1650-17765 byCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor F157 .D4L48 1988Publication Date: 1988
- Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts byPublication Date: 1999
- Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America byPublication Date: 2010
- Women's Roles in Seventeenth-Century America byPublication Date: 2008
Women, Family, and Community in Colonial America by Publication Date: 2013
Women and Religion in Early America,1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions by Call Number: BR520 .W474 1999Available as an e-book and in print.
Native American Conflict
Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756–1763 by Publication Date: 2015
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 by Publication Date: 2010
Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscape of Race in French Louisiana by Publication Date: 2015
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor E98.S6 R47 2016Publication Date: 2016
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War by Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor E83.67 .B795 2018Publication Date: 2018
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast by Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor E78.N5 L57 2015Publication Date: 2015
The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South by Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor E83.713 .R36 2008Publication Date: 2008Available as an e-book and hard copy.
French Colonial Settlement
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Publication Date: 2012- Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans byPublication Date: 2008
Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country by Publication Date: 2015
Spanish Settlement
- Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650-1725 byPublication Date: 2010
- Let There Be Towns: Spanish Municipal Origins in the American Southwest, 1610-1810 byPublication Date: 1988
- Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern frontier of New Spain byPublication Date: 1996
- The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680 byPublication Date: 2012
- The Spanish Frontier in North America byPublication Date: 1992