Early American WritingPenguin, 1994 M02 1 - 672 páginas Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature—including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... Virginia colony declined from upwards of 100,000 people to just 1,500 by 1697. In New England during the same period, there was a comparable decline of 95 percent in the native population, and the same figures can be found almost ...
... Virginia colony declined from upwards of 100,000 people to just 1,500 by 1697. In New England during the same period, there was a comparable decline of 95 percent in the native population, and the same figures can be found almost ...
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... Virginia with a Description of the Country (1612) and his subsequent Description of New England (1616), John Smith was instrumental in precipitating the next wave of English emigration to North America. But the settlers he later helped ...
... Virginia with a Description of the Country (1612) and his subsequent Description of New England (1616), John Smith was instrumental in precipitating the next wave of English emigration to North America. But the settlers he later helped ...
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... Virginia as early as 1607, which was very quickly to develop a distinctive and much different way of life—one built around the cultivation and sale of tobacco and the exploitation of Virginia's network of tidewater rivers that ...
... Virginia as early as 1607, which was very quickly to develop a distinctive and much different way of life—one built around the cultivation and sale of tobacco and the exploitation of Virginia's network of tidewater rivers that ...
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... Virginia and founded as a refuge for Catholics in 1634. New Netherland had been founded by the Dutch some years earlier and was reclaimed by the English and named New York in 1664. That same year New Jersey came into being through a ...
... Virginia and founded as a refuge for Catholics in 1634. New Netherland had been founded by the Dutch some years earlier and was reclaimed by the English and named New York in 1664. That same year New Jersey came into being through a ...
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... Virginia (1613) or Captain John Smith's A Description of New England (1616) were soon to give way to a kind of travel and nature writing that, in works like Samuel Sewall's hymn to Plum Island in “Phaenomena” (1697), The Journal of ...
... Virginia (1613) or Captain John Smith's A Description of New England (1616) were soon to give way to a kind of travel and nature writing that, in works like Samuel Sewall's hymn to Plum Island in “Phaenomena” (1697), The Journal of ...
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Michel de Montaigne 15331592 | |
Michael Drayton 15631631 | |
Samuel de Champlain 15671635 | |
John Smith 15801631 | |
William Bradford 15901657 | |
Fray Carlos José Delgado 1677c 1750 | |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | |
Elizabeth Ashbridge 17131755 | |
John Woolman 17201772 | |
Chief Logan | |
Chief Pachgantschilias | |
Thomas Jefferson 17341826 | |
Thomas Paine 17371809 | |
Thomas Morton 1579?1647 | |
Ann Hutchinson 15911643 | |
Anne Bradstreet 1612?1672 | |
Roger Williams 16131683 | |
Michael Wigglesworth 16311705 | |
Edward Taylor 1644?1729 | |
Samuel Sewall 16521730 | |
Sarah Kemble Knight 16661727 | |
Robert Beverley c 16731722 | |
Abigail Adams 17441818 | |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge 17481816 | |
The Federalist Papers 17871788 | |
Timothy Dwight 17521817 | |
Joel Barlow 17541812 | |
Royall Tyler 17571826 | |
Susanna Haswell Rowson 1762?1824 | |
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