Utvidet returrett til 31. januar 2024

Bøker i Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press-serien

Filter
Filter
Sorter etterSorter Serierekkefølge
  • - Foundations of British Abolitionism
    av Christopher Leslie Brown
    684,-

    Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, this book challenges scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. It instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at that time.

  • - India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
    av Jonathan Eacott
    641,-

  • - The Politics of Reputation in British America
    av Patricia U. Bonomi
    684,-

    This volume looks at the life of Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 and 1708, whose range of alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects.

  • - Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
    av Saul Cornell
    742,-

    A study of the Anti-Federalist legacy. Saul Cornell argues that, while the Anti-Federalists won the battle over ratification of the Constitution in 1788, their ideas continue to define the soul of US politics. He explores the range and influence of Anti-Federalist thought on the early Republic.

  • - Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
    av Drew R. McCoy
    612,-

    The author of this study investigates 18th-century social and economic thought - an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts and assumptions - integrating the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era.

  • - English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
    av James Horn
    742,-

    Often compared unfavourably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. This study challenges this view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behaviour on the early Chesapeake.

  • - The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783
    av Daniel H. Usner Jr.
    684,-

    Examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton South.

  • - Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
    av Christopher P. Iannini
    612,-

  • - Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
    av Steven C. Bullock
    858,-

    Traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. The text follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction by a massive anti-Masonic movement and its reconfiguration into the brotherhood we know today.

  • - British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
    av Eliga H. Gould
    561,-

    This work examines the British public's predominantly loyal reponse to its government's actions during the American revolution. Drawing on nearly 1000 political pamphlets, as well as broad sides, private memoirs and popular cartoons it offers an insight into 18th-century British political culture.

  • av Sarah Knott
    684,-

    In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Moving beyond traditional accounts of social unrest, republican and liberal ideology, and the rise of the autonomous individual, this work offers an interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformation of self and society.

  • - The Birth of an American National Identity
    av Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
    713,-

    This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.

  • - Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
    av Holly Brewer
    684,-

    In mid-17-century England, people were born into authority based on their social status. By the late 18th century, however, English and American law began to emphasize contractual relations based on informed consent. This work explores how the changing legal status of children illuminates the debates over consent and status in England and America.

  • - An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
    av Clare A. Lyons
    713,-

    Shows that men and women created a vibrant urban pleasure culture, including the eroticization of print culture. By reading representations of sex against actual behavior, the author reveals the clash of meanings given to sex and illuminates struggles to recast sexuality in order to eliminate its subversive potential.

  • - Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
    av Kathleen M. Brown
    684,-

    The origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, and assesses its role in the construction of racism in Virginia.

  • av Gordon S. Wood
    713,-

    This text describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration to the ratification of the Constitution. The author discusses the debate over Republicanism.

  •  
    713,-

    William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.

  • - A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
    av Ronald Hoffman
    684,-

    Charles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In this study of the Carrolls in Ireland and America, that act vindicates a family's determination to triumph without compromising lineage and faith.

  • - Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
    av James F. Brooks
    815,-

    An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throughout the Southwest borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th century.

  • - The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
    av Jan Ellen Lewis
    684,-

    One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early US Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history. Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic collects thirteen of Lewis's most important essays.

  • - Migration and the Making of the United States
    av Samantha Seeley
    612,-

    Reorienting the history of US expansion around Native American and African American histories, Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.

  • - How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
    av Robert G. Parkinson
    381,-

    How did the American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, Robert Parkinson provides a troubling answer: racial fear.

  • - Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
    av Susan Sleeper-Smith
    583,-

    Recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. These prosperous Native communities frustrated French and British imperial designs, controlled the Ohio Valley, and confederated when faced with the challenge of American invasion.

  • - Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
    av Robert G. Parkinson
    684 - 742,-

    When the Revolutionary War began, few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians.

  • - Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
    av Andrew Newman
    467 - 1 479,-

    Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyses depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives.

  • - Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
    av Celine Carayon
    858,-

    Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other.

  • - Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
    av Allison Margaret Bigelow
    684,-

    Building on works that have narrated the global history of American mining in economic and labour terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials.

  • - America's First Abolition Movement
    av Paul J. Polgar
    423,-

    Examines the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary era, Paul Polgar unearths this coalition's comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality.

  • - Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
    av Douglas L. Winiarski
    568,-

    This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries,and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorouslay piety of the early eighteenth century.

Gjør som tusenvis av andre bokelskere

Abonner på vårt nyhetsbrev og få rabatter og inspirasjon til din neste leseopplevelse.