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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann  
Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to...
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Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of Jamestown
by Kieran Doherty Publisher Comments In one of the most triumphant high sea stories ever told, Kieran Doherty brings to life the remarkable true story of the ship that rescued the struggling Jamestown settlement in 1610 and single-handedly ensured England's place in the New World...
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Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
by Joseph Plumb Martin Publisher Comments A wide-eyed teenager during much of the Revolutionary War, Martin recounts in grim detail his harrowing confrontations with gnawing hunger, bitter cold, and the fear of battle. This invaluable memoir from an ordinary man in extraordinary times is "one of...
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Library of America #171: Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First Settlement of America
by James Horn Publisher Comments An illustrated edition of the English chronicler's major works is comprised of firsthand dispatches from Virginia and New England, his personal memoirs, and his analyses of the challenges of colonization, in a volume complemented by narrative accounts by...
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as spellbinding by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily...
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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
by Benjamin Woolley Publisher Comments Four centuries ago, and thirteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy—arrived in Virginia aboard a fleet of three ships and set about trying...
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The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South (Indians of the Southeast)
by William L Ramsey Publisher Comments William L. Ramsey provides a thorough reappraisal of the Yamasee War, an event that stands alongside King Philip’s War in New England and Pontiac’s Rebellion as one of the three major “Indian wars” of the colonial era. By arguing...
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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)
by Michael N. Mcconnell Publisher Comments The end of the Seven Years’ War found Britain’s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans...
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The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
by Fred Anderson Publisher Comments The globes first true world war comes vividly to life in this rich, cautionary tale (The New York Times Book Review) The French and Indian War the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years Warremains one of the most important...
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Benjamin Franklin
by Edwin S. Gaustad Publisher Comments The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the greatest man and ornament of his age." In this short, engaging biography, historian Edwin S. Gaustad offers a marvelous...
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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America
by James Delbourgo Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to...
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828
by Walter A Mcdougall Publisher Comments A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian. The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," states Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just...
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
by Russell Shorto
Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New...
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Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
by T H Breen Publisher Comments Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the...
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The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire
by Francis Jennings Publisher Comments This alternative history of the American Revolution portrays the colonists as conquerors and their revolution as a rebellion over control of conquests....
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The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
by Fred Anderson Publisher Comments Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of theFrench and Indian War — also known as the Seven Years' War — and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That...
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Latin American Literature & Culture #0010: Castaways
by A N Cabeza De Vaca Synopsis One of the first narratives of the exploration of North America by Europeans, this is the first-hand account of a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman whose shipwreck on the south-east coast of North America forced him and his crew to walk across the...
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Beer in America: The Early Years--1587-1840: Beer's Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation
by Gregg Smith Publisher Comments One of the most important but little-known aspects of early American history was beer's role in the founding of our country and its formative years. The definitive account of beer's impact on people and events that shaped the birth of a nation will...
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Love & Hate in Jamestown John Smith Poca
by David A Price Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-290) and index....
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Birth of the Republic 1763 89 3RD Edition
by Edmund Sears Morgan Publisher Comments 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...
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