Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England, Hardcover - Strother E. Roberts

Reducere. DescriptionFocusing on the Connecticut River Valley--New England's longest river and largest watershed-- Strother Roberts traces the local, regiona...

Reducere. In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demo...

Reducere. Mary Dyer is widely esteemed as one of the "Boston martyrs"- four Quakers hanged by the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1659 and 1661. When she re...

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

Reducere. Born and raised in New England, the author captures what it is like to live in the great outdoors in the Northeast. Each month is written in acrost...

Reducere. When the early colonists came to America, they were braving a new world, with new wonders and difficulties. Family historians beginning the search ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William CrononForeword by: John DemosAfterword by: William CrononThe book that launched environmental history now updated. ...

Reducere. Each region of the U.S. has its fair share of hauntings, but maybe none more so than New England. There, the ghosts of accused witches linger in Sa...

In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negoti...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...

Reducere. The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans and other Allied Families including: Allain, Bonneval, Bringier, Chiapella, Coudrain, Dalcou...

Reducere. New England's history is marked with witch executions, curses and an untold number of cemeteries hiding mysteries beneath their stones. In this som...

On May 29, 1917, John F. Kennedy was born in the Kennedy home in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a toddler, he wandered the sands of Nantasket Beach i...

DescriptionPeople have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge du...

Discover the truth about the billion-dollar online economy that made the internet's best known starsPublisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Symeon (Aut...

African Descendants in Colonial America: Impact on the Preservation of Peace, Security, and Safety in New England: 1638-1783 analyzes salient data ...

An innovative somatic and attachment-based treatment for working with children and adolescents who suffer from complex trauma and neglect The SMART...

Reducere. Peter J. Marchand's Life in the Cold remains the one book that offers a comprehensive picture of the interactions of plants and animals--including ...

Reducere. Colonial New England was awash in ales, beers, wines, cider and spirits. Everyone from teenage farmworkers to our founding fathers imbibed heartily...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

DescriptionAfrican Descendants in Colonial America: Impact on the Preservation of Peace, Security, and Safety in New England, 1638-1783 analyzes sa...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century an...

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, a...

Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept "against ...

What is unique about Brears book is that he combines an account of the cookery with a close look at the practical arrangements, the kitchens and di...

Reducere. Forages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary myths Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: Whe...

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

Reducere. New England is truly a Cabinet of Curiosities, and this indispensable guide directs you to its most bizarre, off the wall, and unsettling exhibits....

Reducere. Prior to European contact, the Choctaw's matrilineal society supported women's contributions in all areas of community life. Evidence of Choctaw wo...