Dangerous Neighbors

James Alexander Dun

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic p... Lees meer

Dangerous Economies

Serena R. Zabin

• Hardcover | Early American Studies
• This history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century tells how the volatile forces of imperial politics and... Lees meer

The Weaver's Craft

Adrienne D Hood

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• Cloth was one of the most important commodities in the early modern world, and colonial North Americans had to develop creative strategies to acquire ... Lees meer

Sealed with Blood

Sarah J Purcell

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• The first martyr to the cause of American liberty was Major General Joseph Warren, a well-known political orator, physician, and president of the Prov... Lees meer

Revolutionary Backlash

Rosemarie Zagarri

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argue... Lees meer

Contested Spaces of Early America

• Hardcover | Early American Studies
• Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and historiographies of European a... Lees meer

The Settlers' Empire

Bethel Saler

• Hardcover | Early American Studies
• The Settlers' Empire examines the peculiar status of the young United States as a postcolonial republic with its own domestic empire by looking at whe... Lees meer

An Empire Divided

Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• There were 26--not 13--British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean--Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grena... Lees meer

New World Orders

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this h... Lees meer

Seasons of Misery

Kathleen Donegan

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in... Lees meer

Religion and Profit

Katherine Carte Engel

• Hardcover | Early American Studies
• Catalysts in the birth of evangelicalism, the Moravians supported their religious projects through financial savvy, a distinctive communalism at Bethl... Lees meer

Stuyvesant Bound

Donna Merwick

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of cultu... Lees meer

In My Power

Konstantin Dierks

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an e... Lees meer

A New Nation of Goods

David Jaffee

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• In the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption, one that centered on chairs and clocks... Lees meer

Political Gastronomy

Michael A Lacombe

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• "The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, t... Lees meer

Unsettling the West

Rob Harper

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. ... Lees meer

Tea Sets and Tyranny

Steven C Bullock

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• Even as eighteenth-century thinkers from John Locke to Thomas Jefferson struggled to find effective means to restrain power, contemporary discussions ... Lees meer

Captives of Liberty

T Cole Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset ... Lees meer

Frontier Country

Patrick Spero

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• In Frontier Country , Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the m... Lees meer

Historic Real Estate

Whitney Martinko

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate , Whitney Martinko shows how America... Lees meer

Troubled Experiment

Jack D Marietta, G S Rowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• Eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians killed and abused each other at a pace that outstripped most of their English and American contemporaries and rivale... Lees meer

One Family Under God

Anna M Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the... Lees meer

The Shame and the Sorrow

Donna Merwick

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecti... Lees meer

1812

Nicole Eustace

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national ... Lees meer