Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History

Editor: Ciment, James
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $499.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $748.50
ISBN: 978-0-7656-8065-5
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count: 264
Book Status: Available
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Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, events, and the creation of the first three hundred years of American history.

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  • Introduction: Studying the Colonial Era
  • Maps
  • Abenaki
  • Acadia, Nova Scotia
  • Acadians
  • Acapulco
  • Adams, Abigail (1744–1818)
  • Adams, John (1735–1826)
  • Adams, Samuel (1722–1803)
  • African Americans
  • Agriculture
  • Albany Congress (1754)
  • Alcohol
  • Alexander, Mary Spratt Provoost (1693–1760)
  • American Philosophical Society
  • Anabaptists
  • Andros, Sir Edmund (1637–1714)
  • Anglican Church
  • Anne, Queen (1665–1714)
  • Antigua
  • Appalachia
  • Arawak
  • Armada, Spanish
  • Army, British
  • Art, Cartoons, and Broadsides
  • Art, Fine
  • Art, Folk
  • Artisans
  • Arts, Culture, and Intellectual Life
  • Assemblies, Colonial
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Azores and Madeira
  • Aztec
  • Bacon, Nathaniel (1647–1676)
  • Bacon's Rebellion
  • Baltimore
  • Banks and Banking
  • Baptists
  • Barbados
  • Bartram Family
  • Bathing and Hygiene
  • Beaver Wars
  • Berkeley, Sir William (c. 1605–1677)
  • Bermuda
  • Bible
  • Board of Trade
  • Boone, Daniel (1734–1820)
  • Borderlands, Spanish
  • Bostonnnnnnn
  • Boston Massacre
  • Boston Port Bill
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Braddock, Edward (1695–1755)
  • Bradford, William (1590–1657)
  • Bradstreet, Anne (1612–1672)
  • Brant, Joseph (1743–1807)
  • Brant, Mary Molly (c. 1736–1796)
  • Brent, Margaret (c. 1601–c. 1671)
  • Bunker Hill, Battle of
  • Cabot, John (c. 1450–c. 1498)
  • Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez (c. 1498–c. 1543)
  • California
  • Calvert, Cecilius (1605–1675)
  • Calvert, George (First Lord Baltimore; c. 1580–1632)
  • Calvinism
  • Canada
  • Canary Islands
  • Cape Cod
  • Captivity (by Native Americans)
  • Carib
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Carteret, Sir George (d. 1680)
  • Cartier, Jacques (1491–1557)
  • Catholic Church
  • Cayuga
  • Champlain, Samuel de (c. 1570–1635)
  • Charles I (1600–1649)
  • Charles II (1630–1685)
  • Charles V (1500–1558)
  • Charleston
  • Cherokee
  • Chesapeake
  • Chickasaw
  • Child Rearing
  • Children
  • Choctaw
  • Christ and Christianity
  • Cities
  • Class
  • Clocks and Timekeeping
  • Clothing
  • Coercive Acts (1774)
  • Coffee
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Columbus, Christopher (1451–1506)
  • Committees of Correspondence
  • Common Sense (1776)
  • Connecticut
  • Connecticut River
  • Constantinople, Fall of
  • Continental Congress, First
  • Continental Congress, Second
  • Coode's Rebellion
  • Copley, John Singleton (1738–1815)
  • Corn
  • Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de (1510–1554)
  • Cortéz, Hernando (1485–1547)
  • Cotton
  • Cotton, John (1584–1652)
  • Covenants
  • Creek
  • Crime
  • Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)
  • Cuba
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Currency
  • Currency Act (1764)
  • Dartmouth, Lord (1731–1801)
  • Daughters of Liberty
  • Death and Dying
  • Debt and Debtor's Prison
  • Deism
  • Delaware
  • Delaware River
  • De Soto, Hernando (c. 1500–1542)
  • Detroit
  • Dickinson, John (1732–1808)
  • Diplomacy (Foreign Affairs)
  • Disease
  • Dominicans
  • Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596)
  • Dulany, Daniel, Jr. (1722–1797)
  • Dulany, Daniel, Sr. (1685–1753)
  • Dunmore, Lord (1732–1809)
  • Dutch
  • Dutch West India Company
  • East India Company
  • Economy, Business, and Labor
  • Edict of Nantes, Revocation of
  • Education
  • Education, Higher
  • Edwards, Jonathan (1703–1758)
  • Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
  • English
  • English Civil War
  • Enlightenment
  • Environment and Nature
  • Equiano, Olaudah (1745–1797)
  • Erie
  • Exploration
  • Family
  • Ferdinand (1452–1516) and Isabella (1451–1504)
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Florida
  • Food and Diet
  • Fort Duquesne
  • Fort Orange
  • Fortifications
  • Franciscans
  • Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
  • Franklin, William (c. 1730–1814)
  • Free Blacks
  • French
  • French and Indian War
  • Furnishings
  • Furs
  • Gage, Thomas (c. 1719–1787)
  • Gambling
  • Gender Issues
  • George I (1660–1727)
  • George II (1683–1760)
  • George III (1738–1820)
  • Georgia
  • Germans
  • Glorious Revolution
  • God
  • Gorges, Ferdinando (1566–1647)
  • Government, Spanish Colonial
  • Grain
  • Great Awakening
  • Great Lakes
  • Green Mountain Boys
  • Grenville, George (1712–1770)
  • Hakluyt, Richard (c. 1551–1616)
  • Halifax
  • Hamilton, Alexander (c. 1755–1804)
  • Hancock, John (1737–1793)
  • Harriot, Thomas (1560–1621)
  • Harvard College
  • Henry, Patrick (1736–1799)
  • Hispaniola
  • Hooker, Thomas (1586–1647)
  • Hopi
  • Horses
  • House of Burgesses
  • Housing
  • Hudson, Henry (c. 1560–c. 1611)
  • Hudson River
  • Huguenots
  • Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859)
  • Huron
  • Hutchinson, Anne (1591–1643)
  • Hutchinson, Thomas (1711–1780)
  • Immigration
  • Indentured Servitude
  • Indigo
  • Inheritance
  • Inns and Taverns (Public Houses)
  • Iron
  • Iroquois Confederacy
  • Jamaica
  • James I (1566–1625)
  • James II (1633–1701)
  • Jamestown
  • Jay, John (1745–1829)
  • Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)
  • Jesuits
  • Jews
  • Johnson, Sir William (1715–1774)
  • Joint-Stock Companies
  • Jolliet, Louis (1645–1700)
  • Kentucky
  • Kieft's War
  • King George's War
  • King Philip's War
  • King's College
  • Kitchens, Colonial
  • Laborers, Rural
  • Laborers, Urban
  • Land and Real Estate
  • Landlords
  • Language
  • La Salle, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de (1643–1687)
  • Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1474–1566)
  • Law and Courts
  • Lee, Richard Henry (1732–1794)
  • Leisler, Jacob (1640–1691)
  • Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
  • Lexington and Concord, Battles of
  • Libraries
  • Literature
  • Livestock
  • Locke, John (1632–1704)
  • Long Island
  • Louis XIV (1638–1715)
  • Louisiana
  • Loyalists
  • Maine
  • Malaria
  • Manufacturing
  • Maps and Surveys
  • Marquette, Jacques (1637–1675)
  • Marriage and Divorce
  • Mary I (1516–1558)
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts Bay
  • Massachusetts Bay Charter
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • Massasoit (d. 1661)
  • Mather, Cotton (1663–1728)
  • Mather, Increase (1639–1723)
  • Maya
  • Mayflower Compact
  • Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro (1519–1574)
  • Mercantilism
  • Merchants
  • Methodist Church
  • Mexico City
  • Military and Diplomatic Affairs
  • Militias
  • Ministers and the Ministry
  • Missions
  • Mississippi River
  • Mohawk
  • Mohegan
  • Montcalm, Louis-Joseph (1712–1759)
  • Montezuma II (1466–1520)
  • Montreal
  • Murray, Judith Sargent (1751–1820)
  • Music
  • Natchez
  • Native American-African American Relations
  • Native American-European Conflict
  • Native American-European Relations
  • Native Americans
  • Native Americans and Slavery
  • Navajo
  • Navigation Acts (1651–1733)
  • Navy, British
  • Negro Election Day
  • New Amsterdam
  • New Bern
  • New England, Dominion of
  • New Hampshire
  • New Haven
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New Netherland
  • New Orleans
  • New Spain
  • New York
  • New York City
  • Newfoundland
  • Newport
  • Newspapers and Journals
  • North, Lord (1732–1792)
  • North Carolina
  • Northwest Passage
  • Of Plymouth Plantation
  • Oglethorpe, James (1696–1785)
  • Ohio Country
  • Oliver, Andrew (1706–1774)
  • Oñate, Juan de (c. 1552–1626)
  • Oneida
  • Onondaga
  • Opechancanough (c. 1545–c. 1646)
  • Orphans
  • Otis, James (1725–1783)
  • Ottawa
  • Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)
  • Patriots
  • Patroons
  • Paxton Boys
  • Peddlers
  • Penn, William (1644–1718)
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pequot
  • Philadelphia
  • Philip, King (Metacom; c. 1638–1676)
  • Philip II (1527–1598)
  • Piedmont
  • Pietism
  • Pilgrims
  • Piracy
  • Pitt, William (1708–1778)
  • Plantations
  • Planters
  • Plymouth
  • Pocahontas (c. 1594–1616)
  • Politics and Government
  • Ponce de Léon, Juan (1460–1521)
  • Pontiac (c. 1720–1769)
  • Poor Richard's Almanack
  • Population and Demographics
  • Portsmouth, New Hampshire
  • Potomac River
  • Powhatan (c. 1540–1618)
  • Powhatan Confederacy
  • Praying Towns
  • Precious Metals
  • Presbyterianism
  • Prisons and Punishment
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Property and Property Rights
  • Prostitution
  • Providence
  • Pueblo
  • Puerto Rico
  • Puritanism
  • Quakers
  • Quebec Act (1774)
  • Quebec City
  • Queen Anne's War
  • Quincy, Josiah, Jr. (1744–1775)
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554–1618)
  • Reading and Literacy
  • Reformation
  • Regulators
  • Religion
  • Religions, African
  • Religions, Native American
  • Revere, Paul (1735–1818)
  • Revolutionary War
  • Rhode Island
  • Rice
  • Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, The (1764)
  • Riots
  • Roanoke Colony
  • Rolfe, John (1585–1623)
  • Rowlandson, Mary (1637–1711)
  • Royal African Company
  • Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)
  • Saint-Domingue
  • Salem
  • Santa Fe
  • Savannah
  • Science
  • Scots-Irish
  • Seminole
  • Seneca
  • Sermons
  • Serra, Fray Junípero (1713–1784)
  • Servants, Domestic
  • Sex
  • Shakers
  • Ship's Stores
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Slave Communities and Culture
  • Slave Rebellions
  • Slave Trade
  • Slavery, African American
  • Slavery, Caribbean
  • Smallpox
  • Smith, John (1580–1631)
  • Sons of Liberty
  • South Carolina
  • Sports and Recreation
  • Squanto (c. 1590–1622)
  • St. Augustine
  • St. Kitts
  • St. Lawrence River
  • St. Louis
  • Stamp Act (1765)
  • Stuyvesant, Peter (c. 1610–1672)
  • Sugar
  • Sugar Act (1764)
  • Susquehanna
  • Swedes
  • Syphilis
  • Taino
  • Taylor, Edward (c. 1644–1729)
  • Tea
  • Tea Act (1773)
  • Technology
  • Tenant Farming
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Theater
  • Tidewater
  • Tobacco
  • Tools
  • Tordesillas, Treaty of (1494)
  • Townshend, Charles (1725–1767)
  • Townshend Acts (1767)
  • Trade
  • Transportation, Land
  • Transportation, Water
  • Triangle Trade
  • Tuscarora
  • Tuscarora War
  • Vermont
  • Verrazano, Giovanni da (c. 1480–c. 1528)
  • Vespucci, Amerigo (1454–1512)
  • Vikings
  • Virginia
  • Virginia Company
  • War
  • War of Jenkins' Ear
  • Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814)
  • Washington, George (1732–1799)
  • Weaponry
  • West, Benjamin (1738–1820)
  • Wheatley, Phillis (c. 1754–1784)
  • Whitefield, George (1714–1770)
  • Widows and Widowers
  • Wilkes, John (1725–1797)
  • William and Mary, College of
  • William III of Orange (1650–1702) and Mary II (1662–1694)
  • Williams, Roger (c. 1602–1683)
  • Williamsburg
  • Winslow, Josiah (1629–1680)
  • Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
  • Witchcraft and Witch Trials
  • Wolfe, James (1727–1759)
  • Women
  • Wright, Susanna (1697–1784)
  • Yale College
  • Yamasee
  • Yamasee War
  • Yeomanry
  • Zenger, John Peter (1697–1746)
  • Zuni
  • Chronologies
  • Thematic
  • Arts, Culture, and Intellectual Life
  • Economy, Business, and Labor
  • Gender Issues
  • Military and Diplomatic Affairs
  • Politics and Government
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Science and Technology
  • Geographic
  • Caribbean
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • French Colonies on Mainland North America
  • Georgia
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New York and New Netherland
  • North Carolina
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • Spanish Colonies on Mainland North America
  • Virginia
  • Primary Documents
  • Columbus's Letter Announcing His Discoveries in the New World (1493)
  • John Cabot's Discovery of North America (1497)
  • The Founding of St. Augustine (1565)
  • The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (c. 1570)
  • A Call for English Colonization of America (1584)
  • The Jamestown Settlement (1607–1609)
  • The Mayflower Compact (1620)
  • Rights and Privileges of Patroons (1629)
  • A Modell of Christian Charity (1630)
  • The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
  • Psalm 23 from The Bay Psalm Book (1640)
  • Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
  • Connecticut Blue Laws (1650)
  • Virginia Slave Laws (1660s)
  • Upon the Burning of Our House (1666)
  • John Eliot and His Work with Native Americans (1670)
  • Probate Inventory of a Plymouth Colony Estate (1672)
  • Marquette's Travels on the Mississippi (1673)
  • Governor William Berkeley on Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
  • Protest of German Quakers Against Slavery (1688)
  • John Clayton's Report on Virginia (1688)
  • Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England (1688)
  • The Salem Witch Trial of Susanna Martin (1692)
  • Thomas Brattle on the Salem Trials (1692)
  • A Poem Recalling the Hanging of a Relative due to the Salem Witch Trials (in 1692; pub. 1857)
  • Raising Colonial Children (1699)
  • Founding of New Sweden (1700s)
  • Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701)
  • The Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight (1704)
  • The French and the Fur Trade (1724)
  • A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency (1729)
  • Oglethorpe's Vision for the Founding of Georgia (1733)
  • The Trial of Peter Zenger (1735)
  • Maxims from Poor Richard's Almanack (1739)
  • The Demand for Slavery in Georgia (1743)
  • Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (c. 1744)
  • Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)
  • Gottlieb Mittelberger on Immigration to the Colonies (c. 1750)
  • Captivity Narrative of Mary Jemison in the 1750s (pub. 1824)
  • A Report on the Kite Experiment (1752)
  • Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin (1752, 1753, 1769)
  • Founding Colleges in America (1754)
  • Colonial Recipe for Apple Tansey (1754)
  • Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (in 1755; pub. 1847)
  • Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)
  • Townshend Revenue Act (1767)
  • Newspaper Account of the Boston Massacre (1770)
  • On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (1770)
  • On Being Brought from Africa to America (early 1770s)
  • A Tutor and his Pupils (1773–1774)
  • The Boston Port Act (1774)
  • Slave Petition to the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts (1774)
  • A Case for Non-Interference by Parliament (1775)
  • Petition of London Merchants for Reconciliation with the Colonies (1775)
  • Tobacco Growing (1775)
  • Common Sense (1776)
  • Letters between Abigail Adams and John Adams (1776)
  • The Declaration of Independence (1776)
  • Glossary
  • Master Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources