Events that changed America through the seventeenth century /
Ten essays offer academic interpretations of the significance of ten events shaping early US history. Appends a glossary and a timeline from the First peoples' migration to the New World to the 1692 Salem witch trials. Illustrations include a replica of Columbus' /Santa Maria/, a period sk...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2000.
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Colección: | Greenwood Press "Events that changed America" series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- First encounters, c. 40,000 B.C.E.-1492 C.E. / Andrew Frank
- The expedition of Coronado, 1540-1542 / Thomas Clarkin
- The founding of St. Augustine, 1565 / Blake Beattie
- Early English colonization efforts, c. 1584-1630 / Rick Kennedy
- Early European-Native American encounters, 1607-1637 / Kathleen Perdisatt and Rick Kennedy
- The introduction of slavery into North America, 1619 / Julia A. Woods
- The surrender of New Amsterdam, 1664 / Thomas A. Mackey
- King Philip's War, 1675-1676 / Steven E. Siry
- The Glorious Revolution in America, 1688-1689 / P.D. Swiney
- The Salem witch trials, 1692 / Frederick M. Stowell.