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  • - Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America
    av Jason T. Sharples
    539,-

    In dozens of slave conspiracy scares in North American and the Caribbean, colonists terrorized and killed slaves whom they accused of planning to take over the colony. Jason T. Sharples explains the deep origins and historical triggers of these incidents and argues that conspiracy scares bound society together through shared fear.

  • - Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
    av Marisa J. Fuentes
    379 - 1 125,-

    Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written.

  • - National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater
    av Jason Shaffer
    789,-

    Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused.

  • - Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
    av Sasha Turner
    405 - 675,-

    Contested Bodies explores how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children. Examining the struggles for control over biological reproduction, Turner shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work, the care of slaves, and the development of their culture.

  • - Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World
    av Michael A. LaCombe
    575,-

    Political Gastronomy examines the many meanings of food as a symbol of power in the daily life and the political culture of early America. Struggling to establish status and precedence, English settlers and American Indians alike conveyed authority through shared meals and other significant exchanges of food.

  • - Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
    av Kathleen Donegan
    355,-

    Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature.

  • - Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America
    av Margaretta M. Lovell
    459,-

    Focusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this illustrated book positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families, and the geographies through which they moved as they created notable careers and memorable objects.

  • - Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania
    av Adrienne D. Hood
    679,-

    "If American studies scholars needed an example of how local history can be writ large, they can effectively point to this study of weavers in Chester County, Pennsylvania."-American Studies

  • - Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
     
    525,-

    Leading religious historians connect changes in law and rhetoric to daily cooperation and conflict in early America. These essays examine such topics as Native American spiritual life, the biblical sources of tolerance and intolerance, contemporary philosophies of religious liberty, and the resilience of African American faiths.

  • - The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians
    av Amy C. Schutt
    355,-

    Offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the Delaware, or Lenape, Indians in the context of events in the mid-Atlantic region and the Ohio Valley.

  • - Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
    av John Fea
    409,-

    In this first full biography of Philip Vickers Fithian, John Fea tells the story of how one young man sought to pursue the life of an eighteenth-century Presbyterian gentleman while continuing to yearn for the everyday passions that defined what it meant for him to be human.

  • - The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania
    av John Smolenski
    525,-

    Friends and Strangers offers a provocative new look at the transfer of English culture to North America. Setting Pennsylvania in the context of the broader Atlantic phenomenon of creolization, Smolenski's account of the Quaker colony's origins reveals the vital role this process played in creating early American society.

  • - Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior
    av Judith Ridner
    679,-

    This study of eighteenth-century Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and its Scots-Irish inhabitants reconsiders the role early American towns played in the development of the American interior. Towns were not spearheads of a progressive Euro-American civilization but volatile places functioning in the middle of a diverse and dynamic mid-Atlantic.

  • - Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America
    av Aaron Spencer Fogleman
    465,-

    Jesus Is Female chronicles the religious violence that erupted in many German and Swedish communities in colonial America as colonists fought over whether to accept the Moravians, and suggests that gender issues were at the heart of the raging conflict.

  • - The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
    av Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
    429,-

    "O'Shaughnessy's excellent, clearly written book is an important contribution to Caribbean and US history. He successfully explains why the Caribbean colonists, far from supporting the American Revolution, preferred to keep the British empire intact. . . . Highly recommended."-Choice

  • - The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic
    av Liam Riordan
    389,-

    Liam Riordan explores how the American Revolution politicized religious, racial, and ethnic identity among the diverse inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey from 1770 to 1830.

  • - Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
    av Jean R. Soderlund
    355 - 1 219,-

    Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

  • - Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas
     
    469,-

    New World Orders juxtaposes case studies from Brazil to California to New York to explore the wide variety of legal and extralegal means by which social order was maintained in the early Americas.

  • - Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory
    av Gary B. Nash
    465,-

    Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.

  • - Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
    av Michael Leroy Oberg
    409,-

    Examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the attempts of native peoples to make sense of the newcomers who threatened to transform their world in frightening ways.

  • av Richard R. Beeman
    405,-

    Ranging from Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania to the backcountry regions of the South, the Mid-Atlantic, and northern New England, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America offers an ambitious overview of political life in pre-Revolutionary America.

  • - War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America
    av Sarah J. Purcell
    355,-

    "An exemplary study of public memory because of its wide vision, its attentiveness to context, and its careful delineation of change over time."-David Waldstreicher, author of In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820

  • - British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility
    av Laura M. Stevens
    355,-

    Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of the cult of sensibility, when philosophers argued that humans were inherently good because they felt sorrow at the sign of suffering.

  • - The Material Culture of Early America
    av David Jaffee
    459,-

    A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States-chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing-to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.

  • - Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic
    av Matthew Dennis
    389,-

    Seneca Possessed explores how the Seneca people and their homeland were "possessed"-culturally, spiritually, materially, and legally-in the wake of the American Revolution.

  • - Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America
     
    735,-

    A compelling history of nineteenth-century economic, social, and cultural life, Capitalism by Gaslight explores the blurred boundary between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity, describing the dealings of prostitutes, dealers in dirty books and used goods, mock auctioneers, illegal slavers, and other entrepreneurs.

  • - The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
    av Eric R. Schlereth
    389 - 1 125,-

    Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public life. This history recasts the origins of cultural politics in the United States by exploring how everyday Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty.

  • - Moravians in Early America
    av Katherine Carte Engel
    469,-

    Catalysts in the birth of evangelicalism, the Moravians supported their religious projects through financial savvy, a distinctive communalism at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and transatlantic commercial networks. This book traces the Moravians' evolving projects, arguing that imperial war, not capitalism, transformed Moravian religious life.

  • - National Ambitions in Rural New England
    av J. M. Opal
    409,-

    During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged. Beyond the Farm blends biography, social history, and cultural history to describe and explain that change.

  • - War and Gender in Colonial New England
    av Ann M. Little
    409,-

    Reveals how ideas about gender and family life were central to the ways people in colonial New England, and their neighbors in New France and Indian Country, described their experiences in cross-cultural warfare. This book argues that English, French, and Indian people had broadly similar ideas about gender and authority.

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