Colonial Settlements in America – serie
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Santa Fe
Av Tim McNeese
Inbunden, 2007
349 kr
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In the centuries following the ""discovery"" of the Americas in 1492, representatives of the great Spanish Empire attempted to establish the thumbprint of European colonialism in the New World. Their exploits would destroy vast Indian civilizations, but with each fall, stories of other native …
Williamsburg
Av Tim McNeese
Inbunden, 2007
349 kr
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Settled in 1633, Williamsburg was first known as Middle Plantation because it was located between the James and York rivers. In 1693, the nation's second-oldest institution of higher education, the College of William and Mary, was founded there. In 1699, the settlement became the capital of …
New Amsterdam
Av Tim McNeese
Inbunden, 2007
323 kr
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The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam was founded by the director-general of the colony of New Netherland, Peter Minuit, who purchased it from local Indians in 1626. The colony was captured by the British in 1664 and subsequently renamed New York. From Native American to Dutch to British and …
Jamestown
Av Tim McNeese
Inbunden, 2007
349 kr
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In 1607, American Indians, hidden along the banks of a Virginia river, watched as three boats filled with bearded strangers sailed upstream. For more than a century, the Spanish had been busy establishing an empire in the New World, far to the south. Meanwhile, other Europeans began launching their …
Philadelphia
Inbunden, 2007
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Using a debt owed by King Charles II, William Penn traded away a fortune in order to acquire an American colony. He could have become even wealthier from his land, but instead he used his colony to establish a place of safety for religiously oppressed people from throughout Europe. Within his …
St. Augustine
Inbunden, 2007
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Founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles in 1565, St. Augustine remained in Spanish hands until the 1763 Treaty of Paris awarded Florida to Great Britain. This book explores the rich history of the longest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States, and …
Yerba Buena
Inbunden, 2007
349 kr
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In 1776, a Spanish exploration party led by Don Gaspar de Portola established a Franciscan mission, fort, and small village near the northern end of what is today the San Francisco Peninsula. More settlements were later founded, including Yerba Buena in 1836 - the town that would later become San …
Plymouth
Av Tim McNeese
Inbunden, 2007
380 kr
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They were poor exiles, having lived in a foreign land for a dozen years. Through those years, their faith had sustained them in a common bond. But the members of the Leyden congregation of Separatists were ready to leave Holland and make a new place for themselves in the New World. The year was …
Colonial Settlements in America Set
Inbunden, 2007
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The new eight-volume ""Colonial Settlements in America"" set recounts the gripping stories behind America's first permanent European settlements. Each book presents the chronology of a particular settlement's history, from its founding up to the end of the colonial period. Clear text brings to life …
