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"A useful overview of tools and processes in the hand-craft era and the beginning of the industrial revolution... With their well-balanced blend of ... More

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Describes what it was like to live as a settler in Colonial America.

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Vivid, profusely illustrated account of home production of textiles, colonial dress, transportation, religious and social practices, colonial ... More

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A pioneering historian chronicles the everyday details of growing up in Colonial America in this engaging classic. Meticulously researched, it paints ... More

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In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen ... More

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Colonial Americans were enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. As this exotic wood became fashionable, demand for it set in ... More

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Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America encompasses seventeenth and eighteenth century book history.

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This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. ... More

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Through an innovative examination of inventories, licensing records, petitions, newspapers, sermons, and diaries, Conroy explores the development of ... More

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Covers how science and technology impacted the everyday life of colonial Americans.

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Describes the industries, schools, society, culture, and growth of the coastal settlements during the colonial period.

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This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined ... More

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Who were the Pilgrims? Far from the somberly clad, stern, and righteous figures children learn about in school, many of the early settlers of ... More

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James Deetz, who until his death was a leading expert on the archaeology of Plymouth Colony, and his wife, cultural historian Patricia Scott Deetz, ... More

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For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, "godliness," as manifested by the body, was the sign of election, and the body, with ... More

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Look at life through the eyes of children who lived during different eras of American history... Experience the thrill of landing in the New World ... More

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For the first time in 400 years, the true story of Pocahontas is revealed by her own people. This important book shares the sacred and previously ... More

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Presents a glimpse of everyday colonial life by examining the daily life on the settlements.

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First published in England in 1782, Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer was one of the first works to describe the character of the average ... More

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"Compact and insightful. "-- "New York Times Book Review" "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that ... More

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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that ... More

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