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November
2005 features
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Colonial History |
The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques
edited by Marshall B. Davidson
745.10973 Dav
A comprehensive and fair sampling of the finest and the most typical
of colonial antiques in virtually all mediums and forms. They
are presented in a manner that suggests their relation to one another
as well as to the way of life they served.
Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: the Diligent Writers
of Early America
by Wayne Franklin
970.01 Fra
With distinctive command not only of primary texts, but of maps,
charts, and paintings, the author traces the diligence of the first
chroniclers of America through the three stages of discovery,
explorations, and settlement, and shows how each stage brought forth
its own kind of American writing and in turn how that writing had real
political power to determine the American mood.
The European Challenge
by the editors of Time-Life Books
970.1 Eur
Describes the events of first contact between Native Americans and
European explorers and colonists.
The
Unknown Shore : the True Story of How the First English Colony in the
New World was Founded, Lost, and Found Again
by Robert Ruby
971.9 Rub
A frozen, pocket-sized island in Canda's Arctic hold the secrets to
England's first attempts at colonizing the New World. On this
Meta Incognita, or Unknown Shore, as Queen Elizabeth I called it,
England made its first major efforts at western exploration and
settlement. Ruby uncovers the history of Meta Incognita in a
story teeming with rich characters and even more fantastical dreams.
Eric Sloane's America
by Eric Sloan
973 Slo
Originally published in three volumes as American Barns and Covered
Bridges, Our Changing Landscape, and American, Yesterday, here is a
fascinating depiction of American history at the grass roots level, as
it was lived in the days when Americans often had only their strength,
endurance, and resourcefulness to pit against the environment.
Along with background information and detailed drawings of farms,
sawmills, covered bridges, tool and architecture, Sloan provides
anecdotes about early American folkways and traditions.
The Wild Shores: America's Beginnings
by Tee Loftin Snell
973 Sne
To the wild and unknown shores of a new world came Europe's
adventurers and dispossessed, saints and sinners, farmers and traders,
poor hoping to get rich, and rich hoping to get richer. Those
who followed Columbus were ill-equipped to start new lives on a
continent whose hazards and dimensions they knew only vaguely. A
century of trial, often ending in failure, gave them experience in
setting the newfound land.
The Americans: the Colonial Experience
by Daniel J. Boorstin
973.2 Bor
The first of three volumes. "America began as a sobering
experience. The colonies were a disproving ground for
utopias. In the following chapters we will illustrate how the
dreams made in Europe... were dissipated or transformed by the
American reality. A new civilization was being born less out of
plans and purposes than out of the unsettlement which the New World
brought to the ways of the Old."
Indians & English: Facing Off in Early America
by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
973.2 Kup
The author refocuses our understanding of encounters between English
venturers and Algonquins along the upper East Coast of North America
in the early years of contact and settlement. Indians and
English both believed they could control the developing
relationship. Kupperman analyzes a wide variety of Native and
English sources in order to understand the true nature of of these
early years, when the English venturers were so fearful and dependent
on Native aid and the shape of the future was uncertain.
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