The Colonial Period

Alexander Hamilton, American
by Richard Brookhiser
(Paperback -- April )

American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
by David E. Stannard
(Paperback -- November 1993)

The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
by Gordon S. Wood
(Paperback -- April )

John Adams
by David McCullough
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Franklin: The Essential Founding Father
by James Srodes
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	Wealth of Nations (Great Minds Series) by Adam Smith (Paperback -- December 1991)

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin, Leonard W. Labaree (Editor)
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	On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding by Michael Novak (Hardcover -- December )

	American Colonies (The Penguin History of the United States, 1) by Alan Taylor, Eric Foner (Editor) (Hardcover -- November 8, )

Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom by Kathleen A. Deagan, Darcie Macmahon Paperback from University Press of Florida

Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
by Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Paperback -- September 1986)

Everyday Life in Early America
by David Freeman Hawke
(Paperback -- January 1989)
 

	Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller Paperback: 384 pages Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0142002283; (May 28, )

Washington: The Indispensable Man
by James Thomas Flexner
(Paperback -- February )

A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America
by Ivor Noel Hume, Ivor Noel Hume
(Paperback -- June )
 

Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier by James H. Merrell Although the American West was ultimately won by killing nearly every Indian who got in the way, the initial contacts between native and Euro-American cultures were for the most part peaceful, defined by the social and geopolitical norms set by the land's original inhabitants. Into the American Woods examines how semiprofessional negotiators defined a "middle ground" in frontier Pennsylvania where schisms between Anglos and native Americans were temporarily appeased for mutual economic and political gain. English colonial administrators, seeking to purchase land, establish trade, and avert conflict, became dependent on opportunists at the colony's edge, such as German entrepreneur Conrad Weiser, or trader George Groghan, to negotiate with the Delaware, Shawnee, Iroquois, and other regional tribes and bands. Uninterested in learning the ways of new arrivals, the native peoples sent sons of mixed European and Indian heritage or Christian converts to negotiate on their behalf. By trading wampum, using sign language, and scribbling pictographs, these go-betweens developed ambiguously effective means of bridging cultural divides. Negotiators, however, did not fully trust each other's intentions and maintained the prejudices of their own cultures. The French-Indian Wars lessened the effectiveness of councils or other forms of negotiation and tensions between Anglo and Native American civilizations intensified, culminating in the infamous "Paxton Boys" massacre of 1763. Each stage of Merrell's lively, extremely well-researched analysis is filled with colorful "woods lore"--anecdotes often comic in nature, focusing on the rampant alcoholism and bawdiness of frontier life--which illustrate the personalities of key negotiators, as well as the strategies and conditions by which White and Native America conversed in the early 18th century, an era when the wampum belt carried more power on the frontier than the flintlock. --John Anderson - Amazon.com Paperback from W.W. Norton & Company

Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America (4th Edition)
by Gary B. Nash
(Paperback -- July 14, )

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
by John Demos
(Paperback -- April )

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (Vintage)
by Fred Anderson
(Paperback -- January 23, )

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
by Ronald Hoffman
(Paperback -- February )

Light and the Glory
by Peter Marshall, David Manuel
(Paperback -- November 1980)

Sexual Revolution in Early America (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
by Richard Godbeer
(Hardcover -- May )
 

	The Americans, the Colonial Experience (A Caravelle Edition) by Daniel J. Boorstin (Paperback -- April 1964)

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin
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Changes in the Land - Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England
by William Cronon
(Paperback -- June 1984)
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Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson and the American Revolution
by John E. Ferling
(Hardcover -- July )
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