Author: Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107130484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.
Author: Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107130484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.
Author: Jane T. Merritt
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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Author: John J. McCusker
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A paperback reprint of McCusker's still unsurpassed 1978 guide to exchange rates within the Atlantic world during the colonial era before the American Revolution. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 3 This study uses the perspectives of what might be termed the 'empirical tradition' of British landscape archaeology that developed in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in industrial archaeology, to explore the early modern history of the 'garden' landscapes formed by British colonialism in the eastern Caribbean, and their place in the world. It presents a detailed chronological sequence of the changing material conditions of these English-/British-owned plantation landscapes during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, with particular reference to the origins, history and legacies of the sugar industry. The study draws together the results of archaeological fieldwork and documentary research to present a progressive account of the historical landscapes of the islands of St Kitts and St Lucia: sketching a chronological outline of landscape change. This approach to landscape is characterised by the integration of archaeological field survey, standing buildings recording alongside documentary and cartographic sources, and focuses upon producing accounts of material change to landscapes and buildings. By providing a long-term perspective on eastern Caribbean colonial history: from the nature of early, effectively prehistoric contact and interaction in the 16th century, through early permanent European settlements and into the developed sugar societies of the 18th and 19th centuries, the study suggests a temporal and thematic framework of landscape change that might inform the further development of historical archaeology in the island Caribbean region. The broader aim of the study relates to exploring how archaeological techniques can be used to contribute a highly detailed, empirical case study to the interdisciplinary study of postcolonial landscapes and British colonialism. In order to achieve this goal, the study draws upon the techniques of what has been called the 'empirical tradition' of landscape archaeology.
Author: Alison Games
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195335545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important work, Alison Games explores the period when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with.
Author: Linda Colley
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Linda Colley's first book since the immensely successful and critically acclaimed Britons will explore the individual experiences of some of the many British people - captives or renegades - who, voluntarily or involuntarily, lived throughout the Empire during a period of 250 years. This unique and original book provides an alternative history of the British Empire and a brilliant new take on the whole imperial adventure. Many Britons - taken as slaves, imprisoned, or, by their own choice, long-term residents in the outposts of Empire - left written records of their motives and experiences. Linda Colley examines this rich and relatively unexplored material, vividly recreating individual lives and personalities. Her book travels from one of Britain's earliest colonies, Tangier, to other parts of Africa, and North America to India and beyond. She shows us the world through the eyes of the individuals who inhabited it while illuminating many central issues, such as national identity, attitudes towards race, and the power or impotence of Empire.
Author: Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: Stephen Bull
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843834030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Shows how new developments in guns and artillery played a decisive role in the English Civil War.
Author: Peter C. Mancall
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Eighteen essays provide a fresh perspective on the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English, highlighting the regions and influences that formed the context for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. Simultaneous.
Author: Frank Lambert
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809095335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Traces the history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean and North Africa, the construction of a professional United States navy, and the nation's gradual move toward commercial independence.
