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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer; Paperback;
Buy New: $19.25

Excerpt from book description: From 1629 to 1775, North America was settled by four great waves of English-speaking immigrants. The first was an exodus of Puritans from the east of England to Massachusetts (1629-1640). The second was the movement of a Royalist elite and indentured servants from the south of England to Virginia (ca. 1649-75). The third was the "Friends' migration,"--the Quakers--from the North Midlands and Wales to the Delaware Valley (ca. 1675-1725). The fourth was a great flight from the borderlands of North Britain and northern Ireland to the American backcountry (ca. 1717-75).

American Colonies (The Penguin History of the United States) Alan Taylor; Paperback;
Buy New: $11.20

Book Description: With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of
our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period
in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and
slavery, opportunity and loss.

Roanoke : Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller; Paperback;
Buy New: $10.50

From Publishers Weekly Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller provides
clear and convincing explanations for the disappearance of the late 16th-century British settlement on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. In probing Native American land disputes and intrigue, Miller uncovers the reasons for the colonists' disappearance. Miller's prose is commanding as she speculates on what really happened to the colonists after they left Roanoke and on the inevitability of their leaving. An ethnohistorian and anthropologist, Miller authoritatively removes the fog she claims was intentionally wrapped around
this mystery. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash; Paperback; Buy New: $11.20

Inside Flap Copy: Ever since its publication in 1941, The Mind of the South has been recognized as a path-breaking work of scholarship and as a literary achievement of enormous eloquence and insight in its own right. From its investigation of the Southernclass system to its pioneering assessments of the region's legacies of racism, religiosity, and romanticism, W. J. Cash's book defined the way in which millions of readers -- on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line -- would see the South for decades to come.

Sir Walter Raleigh by Raleigh Trevelyan; Hardcover; Buy New: $24.50

Booklist: A good biography will immerse readers in an era, and this massive work provides a cogent
look at Elizabethan England as Trevelyan suspends Walter Raleigh's life in the tensions of the time.
Literary and humane, a kind, even uxorious, husband, Raleigh was also as ruthless as they come,
involved at one point or other in massacres, executions, battles, plundering, and merciless expropriation
in Ireland.

Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony -- by Karen Ordahl Kupperman; Paperback;
Buy New: $13.97

The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas by John Buchanan; Paperback; Buy New: $13.97

"A tense, exciting historical account of a little known chapter of the Revolution, displaying history
writing at its best." -Kirkus Reviews

"His compelling narrative brings readers closer than ever before to the reality of Revolutionary warfare
in the Carolinas." -Raleigh News & Observer.

Partisans and Redcoats:The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the
American Revolution by Walter B. Edgar; Paperback; Buy New: $17.95

From Publishers Weekly: Violence, endemic in a frontier society, was even more deadly in the Carolina backcountry. University of South Carolina historian Edgar, who has produced thh well-regarded South Carolina: A History among eight other books, presents a quickly reconstructed account of the fratricidal civil war that took place in South Carolina during the American Revolution.

Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by
David Price; Hardcover; Buy New: $17.39

From Booklist: Most Americans, one hopes, have at least a vague awareness of the roles of John Smith and Pocahontas in the success of the Jamestown colony. For those general readers who wish to move beyond the myths and obtain a better understanding of them and the early years of the colony, this book will be an enjoyable and valuable tool. Price is a journalist who brings considerable flair to the telling of
a familiar story, and he offers some interesting perspectives on both Smith and Pocahontas.

The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne: An Archaeological and Historical
Odyssey (Virginia Bookshelf) by Ivor Noel Hume; Paperback; Buy New: $13.97

From Library Journal: In his latest book since Martin's Hundred (LJ 3/15/82), Hume, chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg for 35 years, brings his diverse talents to bear on the historical archaeology of
the Roanoke and James Fort (later James Towne) settlements. Drawing extensively on firsthand accounts and other textual sources, he conjures up the feel of the Elizabethan experience that gave life to these settlements. His rendering of settlers and Indians is robust, often tragic, and rich in insight based on... read more --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement by David Hackett Fischer, James C.
Kelly, Virginia Historical Society; Paperback; Buy New:$16.50

Excerpt fropm the book description: Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical Society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. Each stage has its own story to
tell. All of them together offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries,
as it has rarely been studied before.

The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South by Parke Rouse Paperback; Buy New: $15.95

The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South
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Book Description: The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the South was first published by McGraw Hill as part of
its "Great American Trails" series, edited by A. B. Gutherie, Jr. It was instantly recognized for its insight into the birth of the American South from the early 1700's until the Civil War. Historian Carl Bridenbaugh wrote that "In the last sixteen years
of the colonial era, southbound traffic along the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road was numbered in tens of thousands; it
was the most heavily travelled road in all America..." and Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson marked its route on their map
of Virginia in 1754 as "the great Wagon Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 435 miles."

Over the years the Road led countless Scotch-Irish, Germanic, and English settlers southward from Philadelphia to settle
the Appalachian uplands from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Over the Road went the progenitors of John Sevier of Tennessee, John Caldwell Calhoun of South Carolina, Sam Houston of Texas, Cyrus McCormick of Virginia, and other Americans.

Countless cities and towns from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia, owe their beginning to early camp sites along the Road that grew into tavern locations, then into county seats, and then into centers of agriculture and industry. Today such
Wagon Road towns as Lancaster, York, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Winchester, Newmarket, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington, and Rocky Mount, Virginia; Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and Charlotte, North Carolina; and Newberry and Camden, South Carolina have grown along the onetime settler's trail.

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