Colonization -- Early works to 1800

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• Colonization

• A Plaine Path-Way to Plantations (originally published 1624), by Richard Eburne
  • illustrated HTML at mun.ca
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Control of the Tropics (New York: Macmillan, 1898), by Benjamin Kidd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A View of the Art of Colonization, With Present Reference to the British Empire; In Letters Between a Statesman and a Colonist, ed. by Edward Gibbon Wakefield (PDF at McMaster)

• The Expansion of Europe: The Culmination of Modern History (second edition, 1917), by Ramsay Muir (Gutenberg text)

• Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Detailed Report Upon All Claims to Land and Right to Participate in the North-West Half-Breed Grant By Settlers Along the South Saskatchewan and Vicinity West of Range 26, W. 2nd Meridian: Being the Settlements Commonly Known As St. Louis De Langevin, St. Laurent or Batoche and Duck Lake (1886), by William Pearce (page images at ourroots.ca)

• The Constitution of the Republic of Mexico, and of the State of Coahuila and Texas; Containing Also an Abridgement of the Laws of the General and State Governments, Relating to Colonization; With Sundry Other Laws and Documents Not Before Published, Particularly Relating to Coahuila and Texas (New York: Ludwig and Tolefree, 1832), trans. by Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, contrib. by Mexico and Coahuila and Texas (Mexico) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• History of the New-England Emigrant Aid Company, With a Report on Its Future Operations, by New-England Emigrant Aid Company (page images at MOA)

• The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Sonoma

• The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch: or, Little Folks on Ponyback (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1918), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Julia Greene (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch: or, The Cowboys' Double Round-Up (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1922), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Rover Boys on the Plains: or, The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)

• Colonies in Space (originally published 1977), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
• Space Colonies (1977), ed. by Stewart Brand
  • Javascript-dependent page images at wholeearth.com
  • illustrated HTML at NASA
• Space Settlements: A Design Study (Washington: Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977), ed. by Richard D. Johnson and Charles H. Holbrow (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
• Toward Distant Suns (originally published 1979), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)

• Space Resources and Space Settlements (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979), ed. by John Billingham, William Gilbreath, and Brian O'Leary, contrib. by Gerard K. O'Neill (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)

• The Creatures of Man, by Howard L. Myers, ed. by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)
• The Defiant Agents (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, c1962), by Andre Norton
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at durendal.org
• Fallen Angels, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn (HTML at baen.com)
• Little Fuzzy, by H. Beam Piper
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly, by Eric Flint and Dave Freer (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Seas of Venus (included on a Baen CD image), by David Drake
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 420 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 422 MB
• Star Born, by Andre Norton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at durendal.org

• The Space Pioneers, by Carey Rockwell, contrib. by Willy Ley, illust. by Louis S. Glanzman (Gutenberg text)

• Police Your Planet (c1956), by Lester Del Rey (Gutenberg text)

• Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problems Outlined (1924), by Marcus Garvey (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)
• Our Home Colony: A Treatise on the Past, Present and Future of the Negro Race in America (Steubenville, OH: Herald Printing Co., c1908), by Moses Fleetwood Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, In Favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence Via the Mediterranean to London, by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs (page images at MOA)
• A Sermon Delivered Before the Vermont Colonization Society (1826), by John Hough, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization (Poplarville, MS: Dream House Pub. Co., 1947), by Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (first edition; Boston: Printed for the author, 1829), by David Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (third edition; Boston: Revised and published by D. Walker, 1830), by David Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Special Study of the Portuguese Provinces: A Place for Pioneers (New York : American-African Affairs Association, 1968), by James Jackson Kilpatrick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia Through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855 (2011), by Jessie Mitchell (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Alida C. Metcalf (HTML at UC Press)

• Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa: An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725-c. 1830 (c2008), by Laura Jane Mitchell (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• A Special Study of the Portuguese Provinces: A Place for Pioneers (New York : American-African Affairs Association, 1968), by James Jackson Kilpatrick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (c2008), by Tonio Andrade (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics, ed. by Walter Manshard and William B. Morgan (HTML at UNU Press)