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Period
1607–1763 CE
Early Colonial America covers the development of European colonies in North America from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763. English, French, Spanish, Dutch and other imperial projects brought settlers, soldiers, merchants and missionaries into sustained contact and conflict with Indigenous nations.
Colonial societies depended on contested land, Atlantic trade, indentured labour and racial slavery. Religious communities, local assemblies, frontier warfare and imperial regulation created very different regional cultures, while Indigenous diplomacy and resistance remained decisive in determining where colonial power could expand.
Series
The New World Saga follows the Washington family and a wider cast of soldiers, traders, settlers, Indigenous diplomats, servants and political agents through the imperial wars that reshaped eighteenth-century North America. It begins with Lawrence Washington’s service in the War of Jenkins’ Ear, then turns to the young…
Books
Non-Fiction
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
