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1	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 £2.33! \| first editions
2	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 £7.48! \| signed copies \| 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 £5.58! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
4	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 £6.80! new only from £7.83!
5	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 £5.61! new only from £25.92! \| first editions
6	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 £5.61! new only from £6.86! \| first editions
7	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 £5.87! new only from £11.82! \| first editions
8	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 £7.59! new only from £9.77!
9	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 £5.61! new only from £18.61! \| first editions
10	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 £7.35! new only from £7.35! \| first editions
11 view cover	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 £3.42! new only from £4.39! \| first editions
12 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 £5.58! new only from £6.30! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	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 £6.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 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 £5.61! new only from £6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 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 £5.61! new only from £7.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England more books like this by John Putnam Demos add to wishlist In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning "Entertaining Satan", John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light ... see all copies from £5.59! new only from £6.93! \| first editions
17 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 £8.59! new only from £12.88! \| first editions
18 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 £9.28! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840 more books like this by Jack Larkin add to wishlist "Compact and insightful. "-- "New York Times Book Review" "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."-- "American Heritage" "Virtually all human activity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries comes in for scrutiny in this compact and insightful book." "--New York ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Alexander Hamilton American more books like this by Richard Brookhiser add to wishlist A biography of the politician and Revolutionary War hero Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), with special emphasis on his contributions to American politics and society. A New Yorker, Hamilton founded the New York Evening Post, wrote a substantial portion of the Federalist Papers, which defended the U.S. Constitution, and lost his life in a duel with ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.78! \| first editions
21 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 £7.30! new only from £13.51!
22 view cover	Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials more books like this by Marc Aronson add to wishlist Written for older children and teenagers, this is a comprehensive look at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. see all copies from £4.05! new only from £4.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 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 £4.98! new only from £5.98! \| first editions
24 view cover	Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America more books like this by Gary B Nash add to wishlist For courses in Colonial and Revolutionary American History. Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this text presents an interpretive account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans during the colonial and revolutionary eras. It reveals the crucial interconnections between North America's ... see all copies* from £5.61! new only from £20.57!
25 view cover	The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity more books like this by Jill Lepore add to wishlist A history of the largely forgotten 1675 Indian uprising in America, in which the Algonquian tribes massacred nearly half the white colonists of New England before they were put down (just as brutally) by British troops. Lepore, a history professor at Boston University, maintains that this was the most vicious war ever fought on American soil. see all copies from £6.86! new only from £7.93! \| signed copies \| first editions

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