Books
American Colonies
Colonial America: A History 1565-1776 by Richard Middleton. The thirteen North American colonies
established by Great Britain eventually formed the nucleus of the United States. This book describes the history of these
colonies, individually and collectively. The book also includes a chapter on the Spanish in Florida, New Mexico,
Texas, together with an account of the French settlements in Louisiana.
The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan. From early British colonization to the fall of President , the book captures all the vivid personalities
and events as well as the broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Hugh Brogan looks at the period leading to
Independence from the American and British points of view, explores the permanent features, both good and bad, of the
"American character" and produces a synthesis of all the current research to show how the USA developed so rapidly from
small beginnings to global dominance.
Oxford History of the British Empire: Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century by Nicholas P. Canny. This book explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and
later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. It also explains how commercial and, eventually, territorial expansion brought about fundamental change,
not only in the parts of America, Africa, and Asia that came under British influence, but also in domestic society and in
Britain's relations with other European powers.
The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence by R.C Simmons. Traces the European
development and exploitation of the New World and the steady growth of the American colonies toward a national identity.
By the end of 1620 England's American colonies consisted of the settlements along the James River in Virginia,
about 1,500 men and women on the island of Bermuda, and the hard-pressed Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer. The book begins : ON A BLUSTERY MARCH MORNING in the year 1630, a great ship was riding restlessly at anchor in the Solent, near the Isle of Wight. A very interesting and informative read
American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800 by Alan Taylor. This volume starts with
the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs, as it follows the Siberian migrations
across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in the period around 1800 when the rough outline of contemporary North
America could be perceived. Taylor conveys the far more vivid and startling story of the competing interests - Spanish,
French, English, Native, Russian - that over the centuries shaped and reshaped both the continent and its "suburbs" in
the Caribbean and the Pacific.
