{"product_id":"book-gq75","title":"History of the United States of America, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Dusty Tomes Audio Book\u003cbr\u003eIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume one of \u003cem\u003eHistory of the United States of America\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eFrom the Discovery of the Continent\u003c\/em\u003e by George Bancroft. A major US History series in six volumes. \"Author's Last Revision\" 1888 by D. Appleton and Company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. His comprehensive study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the \"Father of American history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrated by Joseph Tabler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Author's Preface:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e… greater precision has been sought for; the fitter word that offered itself accepted; and, without the surrender of the right of history to pronounce its opinion, care has been taken never unduly to forestall the judgment of the reader, but to leave events as they sweep onward to speak their own condemnation or praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Author's Introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the object of the present work to explain how the change in the conditions of our land has been brought about; and, as the fortunes of a nation are not under the control of blind destiny, to follow the steps by which a favoring Providence, calling our institutions into being, has conducted the country to its present happiness and glory. 1834.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foregoing words, written nearly a half-century ago, are suffered to remain, because the intervening years have justified their expression of confidence in the progress of our republic. The seed of disunion has perished; and universal freedom, reciprocal benefits, and cherished traditions bind its many states in the closes union. 1882.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Preface\u003cbr\u003eContents of the First Volume:\u003cbr\u003eThe United States of America as Colonies\u003cbr\u003ePart I.\u003cbr\u003eThe English People Found a Nation in America\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. Early Voyages. French Settlements in America\u003cbr\u003eChapter II. The Spaniards in Florida and on the Pacific Coast\u003cbr\u003eChapter III. The Spaniards in the Mississippi Valley\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV. The Spaniards Hold Florida\u003cbr\u003eChapter V. The English Attempt Colonization\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI. England Plants a New Nation in Virginia\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII. Virginia Obtains Civil Liberty\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII. Slavery. Dissolution of the London Company\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX. Restrictions on Colonial Commerce\u003cbr\u003eChapter X. Colonization of Maryland\u003cbr\u003eChapter XI. Prelates and Puritans\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII. The Pilgrims\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIII. New England's Plantation\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIV. Self-Government of Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003eChapter XV. The Providence Plantations\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVI. Colonization of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVII. The Prelates and Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVIII. The United Colonies of New England\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIX. The Place of Puritanism in History\u003cbr\u003ePart II.\u003cbr\u003eThe Colonies Obtain Geographical Unity\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. The Fall and Restoration of the Stuarts\u003cbr\u003eChapter II. The Navigation Acts\u003cbr\u003eChapter III. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Charles II\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV. Massachusetts and Charles II\u003cbr\u003eChapter V. New England and Its Red Men\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI. The Overthrow of the Charter of Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII. Shaftesbury and Locke Legislate for Carolina\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII. Settlements in South Carolina\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX. Maryland after the Restoration\u003cbr\u003eChapter X. How the Stuarts Rewarded the Loyalty of Virginia\u003cbr\u003eChapter XI. The Great Rebellion in Virginia\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII. New Netherland\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIII. New England and New Sweden\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIV. New Netherland, New Jersey, and New York\u003cbr\u003eChapter XV. The People Called Quakers in the United States\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVI. Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVII. Despotism of James II. In the Northern Colonies\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVIII. The Revolution of 1688\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIX. The Result Thus Far\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. 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