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The Struggle for Power in Colonial America, 1607–1776

William R. Nester

America’s colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14, 1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often overlapping among the colonists, between the colonists and the original inhabitants, between the colonists and other imperial European peoples, and between the colonists and the mother country. As conflicts were endemic, so too were struggles for power.

This study reveals the reasons for, stages, and results of these conflicts. The dynamic driving this history are two inseparable transformations as English subjects morphed into American citizens, and the core American cultural values morphed from communitarianism and theocracy into individualism and humanism. These developments in turn were shaped by the changing ways that the colonists governed, made money, waged war, worshipped, thought, wrote, and loved. Extraordinary individuals led that metamorphosis, explorers like John Smith and Daniel Boone, visionaries like John Winthrop and Thomas Jefferson, entrepreneurs like William Phips and John Hancock, dissidents like Rogers Williams and Anne Hutchinson, warriors like Miles Standish and Benjamin Church, free spirits like Thomas Morton and William Byrd, and creative writers like Anne Bradstreet and Robert Rogers. Then there was that quintessential man of America’s Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin. And finally, George Washington who, more than anyone, was responsible for winning American independence when and how it happened.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 370 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-6595-0 • Hardback • October 2017 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-1-4985-6597-4 • Paperback • May 2019 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-1-4985-6596-7 • eBook • October 2017 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History / Modern / 17th Century, History / Modern / 18th Century
Dr. William Nester is a professor at St. John's University in New York. He is the award winning author of thirty-six books on international relations, military history, and the nature of power.
Introduction
Part I: Ends and Origins
Chapter 1: Power
Chapter 2: Imperialism
Chapter 3: Jamestown
Chapter 4: Plymouth
Part II: Seventeenth Century
Chapter 5: Developments
Chapter 6: Wars
Part III: Eighteenth Century
Chapter 7: Developments
Chapter 8: Wars
Part IV: Turning Points
Chapter 9: Conquests
Chapter 10: Resistance
Chapter 11: Liberty

The Struggle for Power in Colonial America, 1607–1776

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Summary
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  • America’s colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14, 1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often overlapping among the colonists, between the colonists and the original inhabitants, between the colonists and other imperial European peoples, and between the colonists and the mother country. As conflicts were endemic, so too were struggles for power.

    This study reveals the reasons for, stages, and results of these conflicts. The dynamic driving this history are two inseparable transformations as English subjects morphed into American citizens, and the core American cultural values morphed from communitarianism and theocracy into individualism and humanism. These developments in turn were shaped by the changing ways that the colonists governed, made money, waged war, worshipped, thought, wrote, and loved. Extraordinary individuals led that metamorphosis, explorers like John Smith and Daniel Boone, visionaries like John Winthrop and Thomas Jefferson, entrepreneurs like William Phips and John Hancock, dissidents like Rogers Williams and Anne Hutchinson, warriors like Miles Standish and Benjamin Church, free spirits like Thomas Morton and William Byrd, and creative writers like Anne Bradstreet and Robert Rogers. Then there was that quintessential man of America’s Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin. And finally, George Washington who, more than anyone, was responsible for winning American independence when and how it happened.
Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 370 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-4985-6595-0 • Hardback • October 2017 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
    978-1-4985-6597-4 • Paperback • May 2019 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
    978-1-4985-6596-7 • eBook • October 2017 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
    Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History / Modern / 17th Century, History / Modern / 18th Century
Author
Author
  • Dr. William Nester is a professor at St. John's University in New York. He is the award winning author of thirty-six books on international relations, military history, and the nature of power.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction
    Part I: Ends and Origins
    Chapter 1: Power
    Chapter 2: Imperialism
    Chapter 3: Jamestown
    Chapter 4: Plymouth
    Part II: Seventeenth Century
    Chapter 5: Developments
    Chapter 6: Wars
    Part III: Eighteenth Century
    Chapter 7: Developments
    Chapter 8: Wars
    Part IV: Turning Points
    Chapter 9: Conquests
    Chapter 10: Resistance
    Chapter 11: Liberty

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