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1	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War more books like this by Nathaniel Philbrick add to wishlist A New York Times Bestselling Author From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Democracy in America more books like this by Professor Alexis de Tocqueville add to wishlist The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this classic in French after traveling across America. It is divided into two sections: the first, on government; the second, on the American character. It is considered one of the most perceptive and enduring descriptions of America and Americans ever written. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.31! \| first editions
3	Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England more books like this by William Cronon add to wishlist This book offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. see all copies from £5.55! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
4	American History: A Survey more books like this by Alan Brinkley add to wishlist This historical survey aims to balance social and cultural issues with political and diplomatic. It sets out to help the instructor to organize his or her course in many different ways, confident that the text will support the topics discussed in class and provide students with the ideal book for self-study. This edition includes historiographical ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £23.11! \| first editions
5	America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation more books like this by Kenneth C Davis add to wishlist The author of the phenomenal "New York Times" bestseller "Don't Know Much About History" presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. see all copies from £6.17! new only from £6.82! \| first editions
6	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America more books like this by David Hackett Fischer add to wishlist Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indentifiable, Fischer argues, in areas as divers ... see all copies from £12.60! new only from £16.04!
7	American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) more books like this by Alan Taylor add to wishlist "American Colonies" starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived. Dropping the usual Anglo centric description of North America's ... see all copies from £7.73! new only from £9.71!
8	The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War more books like this by Fred Anderson add to wishlist In this companion book to the PBS series of the same name, Fred Anderson presents a fascinating and accessible history of the French and Indian War, fought between Britain and France on North American soil between 1754 and 1763. This somewhat little-known war is important on several levels. First, it was a set-up to the Revolution, as it ended the ... see all copies from £7.31! new only from £7.31! \| first editions
9	Wealth of Nations more books like this by Adam Smith add to wishlist Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But "Wealth of Nations" (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity. What set this work apart was its statement of the doctrine of natural liberty. Smith ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.36! \| first editions
10	The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America more books like this by John Demos add to wishlist An account of the Puritan minister John Williams and his family, who were taken prisoner in a raid by a party of French and Indians on a Massachusetts village in 1704, during Queen Anne's War. Williams was eventually released by the French; however his wife and several of his children died while in captivity. The unredeemed captive of the title ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 more books like this by Gordon S Wood (Preface by) add to wishlist This volume describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution and in the process greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system. In a new preface, he discusses the debate over republicanism that has developed since the book's original publication by ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £20.81! \| first editions
12 view cover	Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft more books like this by Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum add to wishlist A brilliant analysis of the most famous case of witchcraft hysteria in American history. see all copies from £5.88! new only from £11.75! \| first editions
13 view cover	In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 more books like this by Mary Beth Norton add to wishlist Historian Norton revisits the witchcraft panic of the late 17th century in the U.S., situating it in the context of anxiety over the Indian wars that may have precipitated the hysteria. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from £5.55! new only from £6.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation. Edmund S. Morgan's classic account of the Revolutionary period shows how the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom and eventually led to the Revolution. Morgan ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.90! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England more books like this by Carol F Karlsen add to wishlist Confessing to "familiarity with the devils", Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed in Connecticut in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbours. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits" and fuelled an outbreak of withcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Everyday Life in Early America more books like this by Hawke (Editor) add to wishlist "In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."-- "Publishers Weekly" see all copies from £3.17! new only from £5.31! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America more books like this by Russell Shorto add to wishlist This history of early New York City conveys a strong sense of place as it covers the period when the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was a sprawling seaport, full of activity and promise. Russell Shorto offers illuminating portraits of two key players: Peter Stuyvesant, governor, and Adriaen van der Donck, a lawyer and historian whose nearly lost ... see all copies from £7.26! new only from £7.78!
18 view cover	Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 more books like this by Fred Anderson add to wishlist This military history of the French and Indian War (known as the Seven Years' War in Europe) provides a fascinating narrative of the conflict that preceded the American Revolution. Anderson tells how the colonists' encounters with British troops resulted in a clear sense of their own subordinate place in the empire. He also tells how the the war ... see all copies from £8.23! new only from £12.80! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America more books like this by Russell Shorto add to wishlist In the late 1960s, an archivist in Albany made a remarkable discovery: pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and government reports from a forgotten society, the Dutch colony of Manhattan, which was founded only three years after the Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod. see all copies from £8.04! new only from £12.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Light and the Glory: Did God Have a Plan for America? more books like this by Peter Marshall, David Manuel add to wishlist Popularly priced edition of the classic that recovers the United States' true national heritage. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America more books like this by Professor Colin G Calloway (Editor) add to wishlist This collection presents Native American perspectives on the events of the colonial era, from the first encounters between Indians and non-Indians in the early 17th century to the American Revolution in the late 18th century. The documents are drawn from letters, speeches and the records of treaty negotiations in which Indians were addressing non ... see all copies from £5.66! new only from £9.11! \| first editions
22 view cover	Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America more books like this by Dr. Daniel K Richter add to wishlist In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its ... see all copies from £7.44! new only from £13.74!
23 view cover	American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence more books like this by Pauline Maier add to wishlist Pauline Maier, one of our foremost scholars of the Revolutionary period, has written what may be be the most significant work on the creation of the Declaration of Independence and its historical destiny since Carl Becker's eponymous study published 75 years ago. She begins by tracing the complex history of the composition of the document in its ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	American Slavery, American Freedom more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist In this study of the tragic contradiction at the heart of America, Edward Morgan looks for answers to the people and politics of Virginia - a state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. see all copies from £6.28! new only from £7.91!
25 view cover	Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent more books like this by Ted Morgan add to wishlist From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, the sprawling roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the continent that became our country. Morgan uses scenes and dialogues from letters, journal, and diaries to re-create the odysseys, adventures, human ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.94! \| first editions

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