During American piracy's 'Golden Age' spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s, lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. The author depicts the pirates of this period, among them towering Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Edward Low, and discusses how, once the colonies...

"When the British established North American colonies in the early seventeenth century, slavery gradually became prevalent. This book will examine how slaves were treated in colonial America, and how laws and attitudes about the institution of slavery changed prior to the American Revolution and the establishment of the United States"--Provided by publisher.

The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading...

Traces the competition among the American Indians, French, English, Spanish, and Dutch for land, furs, timber, and other resources of North America.

This book examines the history of the New World, from the final decades of the 1500s through the mid-1700s, describing the exploration and quests of the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch, the establishing of English colonies, the African slaves, the French and Indian War, and the Revolutionary War.

Describes the people and events involved during the colonial years before the Revolutionary War. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of an indentured Virginia servant, a Massachusetts colonist, and a resident of Philadelphia just before the revolution.

"Describes the disgusting details of daily life in colonial America"-- Provided by publisher.

While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious...

An illustrated look at the colonists who came to the New World and founded the Jamestown Colony in what would become Virginia.