{"product_id":"the-colonial-era-9781405156615","title":"The Colonial Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShort headnotes introduce each selection\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBegins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCan be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning collection of familiar and newly mined sources that introduces students firsthand to the breadth of Atlantic world experiences of Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJean R. Soderlund, Lehigh University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This remarkable collection encourages students to glimpse the many faces of colonial America, sample the varied sources historians use, and, most important, think critically about how we know the past.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Clemens has assembled a challenging array of primary documents that highlight the extraordinary Atlantic dimensions of British America. His blend of private, published, and institutional sources sheds light on important topics ranging from exploration, cross-cultural encounters, and labor systems to the quest for enlightenment, salvation, civility, profit, and survival on an American frontier stretching beyond the Thirteen Colonies. This is an immensely valuable collection that will provoke lively classroom discussions.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Jarvis, University of Rochester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Distinguished by its carefully chosen, substantial, and well-edited documents, this superb reader also offers a thoughtful introduction, thought-provoking discussion questions, helpful guidance for further exploration, and useful, unobtrusive headnotes to the texts. Who could ask for more?\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFred Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This remarkable reader offers students a wide range and diverse set of documents, which in turn provide a compelling and comprehensive view of colonial America. It is a superb collection.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"These marvellously diverse documents will introduce students to the full complexity of colonial America, and Professor Clemens's expert commentaries should inspire students to reconsider the very nature of historical analysis.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteve Sarson, University of Wales, Swansea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Beginnings:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. English and African Background.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGregory King’s A Scheme of the Income and Expence of the Several Families of England, Calculated for the Year 1688.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Harrison’s Description of England, 1577.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGomes Eanes de Zurara Chronicle of the Initial Portuguese Voyages to Sub-Saharan Africa, 1453: Chapter LX. How those Caravels Arrived at the River of Nile, and of the Guineas that They Took; Chapter LXIII. How the Caravels Set Forth from the River, and of the Voyage which They Made.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlaudah Equiano Recounts his Life in Africa before Being Captured by Slave Traders, 1789.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Images of the New World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerigo Vespucci Discovers America, ca. 1570s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerigo Vespucci Describes his First (Third) Voyage to “America,” 1505\/6.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Native American Warrior, ca. 1590.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Smith, Of the Naturall Inhabitants of Virginia, 1624.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePocahontas in England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Smith on Pocahontas, 1624.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustration from John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina, 1709.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Lawson’s History of North Carolina, 1709.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Native American Lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Beginning of the World -- Costanoan California Native American Story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Dutch View of the Native Americans in the New Netherlands, from a Letter of Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert, ca. 1628.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA French Jesuit Missionary Reports on Life Among the Illinois, 1675.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Francis Lafitau, Portrait of Iroquois and Huron Culture, 1724.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Borderlands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDutch--Native American Relations Deteriorate: Kieft’s War, 1640--1645.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Natural Wonders of California: Jose de Gálvez’s Expedition, 1769--1770, as Recorded by Father (Franciscan) Juan Crespí.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePedro Fages describes California Native Americans, 1775.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatchez War in Louisiana, 1729--1730.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Founding Colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Winthrop’s A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlave and Servant Codes in the Seventeenth-Century English West Indies: Barbados Laws for Servants (and Slaves), 1652.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey, 1676\/1677: Chapter XVI, Chapter XVII, Chapter XXV.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Penn Purchases Land from the Lenape (Delaware) Indians, 1682.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Northern Colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArticles of Agreement Among the First Settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Winthrop Describes Congregational Minister John Eliot’s Work as a Missionary to the Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1647.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Raid on Deerfield, 1704: “An account of ye destruction at Deerfd febr 29, 1703\/4,” by Samuel Partridge; “Account of the Captivity of the Rev. Doctor Stephen Williams, Written by Himself”; “When I Was Carryed to Canada,” attributed to Joseph Kellogg of Deerfield.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Southern Colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Frethorne’s Letter from Jamestown to his Parents in England, 1623.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWitchcraft Trial of Jeane Gardiner, Bermuda, 1651.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCases Before the Maryland Provincial Court in the 1650s: A Case of Adultery\/Fornication, 1652; A Case of Murder, 1653; An Agreement about Marriage, 1657.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHans Sloane, Observations on Living in Jamaica, 1707.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Eighteenth Century:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddress of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay to the King. November 22, 1728.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Virginia Election Dispute, 1740.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Contested Election in Pennsylvania, 1742.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommerce at the Port of Bristol, Great Britain, July 2, 1731.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New England Farmer’s Expectations of Profit, 1742.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Business of a South Carolina Commission Merchant, 1738 and 1740.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Memorial Concerning the Fur Trade of the Province of New York: Cadwallader Colden to William Barnet, Governor of New York, November 10, 1724.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLieutenant Governor William Gooch of Virginia to the Council of Trade, on the Need for a Tobacco Inspection Act, June 29, 1729 and February 27, 1731.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Oglethorpe Promotes a New Colony in Georgia, 1732.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Ramsay on the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, 1784.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLieutenant Governor William Gooch of Virginia to the Board of Trade, Comments about African American Slaves in Virginia. June 29, 1729.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew York Conspiracy Trials of 1741.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Virginia Planter Instructs his Plantation Manager about Enslaved Workers, 1743\/4 and 1754.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRunaway Servant and Slave Advertisements, as Published in Colonial Newspapers: Pennsylvania Gazette, Runaway Servants; Virginia Gazette, Runaway Slaves; South Carolina Gazette, Runaway Indian Slave, and South Carolina and American General Gazette, Runaway Slave.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Everyday Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamination of Daniel Tice, 1765.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrinton Farmhouse, Birmingham Township, Chester (Delaware) County, Pennsylvania, 1704.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEveryday Life in the Colonies as Seen through Probate Inventories and Wills: Inventory of Archibald Curry, laborer, Darby, Chester County, October 24, 1764; Inventory and Will of Sarah McWilliams, East Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1765; The Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Benedict late of Norwalk deceased taken this 28th day of June An. D. 1763; Slaves in the Inventory of Thomas Beach, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, May 1776.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousehold Consumer Goods of the Comfortable and Prosperous.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColonial Taverns: Sarah Kimble Knight’s Account of a Night at a Tavern, 1704; James Birket’s Cursory Remarks about his Tavern Accommodations, 1750.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Family and Gender Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrand Jury Presentation of Martin Rierden, 1736.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1742.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Gender Relations in Pennsylvania, 1730s--1760s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScenes from the Life of a Great Tobacco Planter in Eighteenth-Century Virginia: William Byrd to Charles, Earl of Orrey (Great Britain), 1726; William Byrd of Westover’s Diary, 1710, 1712.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Religion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Anglican Clergy of Maryland Appeal to the Bishop of London about the State of the Church In Maryland, 1696.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin Offers his Opinion of the Great Revivalist, George Whitefield.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Alexander Hamilton Comments on the Revivalist James Davenport, 1743.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Ireland’s Battle with Satan, Virginia, ca. 1760s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCadwallader Colden [New York] to Mr. Peter Collinson [London], on Women as Botanists, November 13, 1742.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBooks and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America: A Selection of Books from the Probate Inventory of Alured Popple, Governor of Bermuda, 1745; A Bookseller’s Catalog, Philadelphia, 1762; The Practice of Reading in Early America, from the Journal of Esther Edwards Burr on the Reading of Richardson’s Pamela, 1755.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eObserving the Transit of Venus from Newport, Rhode Island, June 5, 1769.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhillis Wheatley, On Virtue, 1773.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMusical Instruction: William Charles Hulet, Advertisement for Musical Lessons, 1770; Young Ladies Conduct, Advice on Musical Instruction, 1722.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The Great War for Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeven Years War Begins: George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 1754.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDescription of the Battle of Ticonderoga, July 1758.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePontiac’s Rebellion: Captain George Etherington to Major Henry Gladwin, Michilimackinac, June 12, 1763.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrontier Life during Warfare: Captain Lewis Ourry (Fort Bedford) to Colonel Henry Bouquet (Fort Pitt), August 27, 1763.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529333612887,"sku":"9781405156615","price":97.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405156615.jpg?v=1731875209","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-colonial-era-9781405156615","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}