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Exploration and colonial America (1492-1755) / editor, Daisy Martin, Ph.D.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
- Defining documents in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British--America--Historiography.
- British.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.
- United States.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes (xviii, 754 pages)) : illustrations, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection provides historical documents related to colonial America, and analysis of each document, including journals of exploration, reports of New World settlements, early political tracts on self-governing, and narratives on colonial life and slavery and indentured servitude. Incorporates lesson plans, study questions, activities, suggested author pairings, a historical timeline, maps, and a bibliography of supplemental readings.
- Contents:
- ""Engravings and Drawings by Theodor De Bry and John White""""Early Political Tracts on Self-Governing""; ""The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa""; ""Articles, Laws, and Orders, Devine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia""; ""The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England""; ""The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina""; ""Limitation of Government""; ""Massachusetts Body of Liberties""; ""Frame of Government of Pennsylvania""; ""Pilgrim Code of Law""
- ""At the Town-House in Boston and Boston Declaration of Grievances""""The Shields of the Churches: New England�s Governors""; ""Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges""; ""English Liberties and Deference""; ""The History and Present State of Virginia""; ""A New Voyage to Carolina""; ""The History of King Philip�s War""; ""Vindication of the Government of New-England Churches""; ""Founding Vision for Georgia""; ""Some Grounds of the War Against the Pequots""; ""Canassatego�s Speech at the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744""; ""The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay""
- ""Memoir on the French Colonies in North America""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283901659
- 128390165X
- 9781429837040
- 1429837047
- OCLC:
- 1036362530
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