Seeds of Extinction

Bernard W Sheehan

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• This study is the first to explain how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the India... Lees meer

By Birth or Consent

Holly Brewer

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• In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate... Lees meer

Forced Founders

Woody Holton

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• In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washin... Lees meer

In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes

David Waldstreicher

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• In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers... Lees meer

Farmers and Fishermen

Daniel Vickers

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• Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature socie... Lees meer

Fatal Revolutions

Christopher P Iannini

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• Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-... Lees meer

Passion Is the Gale

Nicole Eustace

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• At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the gente... Lees meer

Contact Points

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• The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones f... Lees meer

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624

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• In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed... Lees meer

Virginia 1619

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• Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays... Lees meer

White Over Black

Winthrop D Jordan

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• In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions... Lees meer

Peter Harrison

Carl Bridenbaugh

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• This illustrated story of America's first architect is based on material from a number of contemporary sources in the colonial period. Harrison's buil... Lees meer

George Croghan

Nicholas B Wainwright

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• George Croghan--land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent--was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized th... Lees meer

Rufus King

Robert Ernst

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• This is the first full-length biography of Rufus King. It emphasizes politics and diplomacy but also presents a well-rounded appraisal of King's perso... Lees meer

The Partisan Spirit

Patricia Watlington

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• Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, Watlington has discovered that there were actually three active ... Lees meer

Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit

Lorena S Walsh

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• Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of... Lees meer

The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover

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• William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia poli... Lees meer

Mining Language

Allison Margaret Bigelow

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• Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded th... Lees meer

Beyond Confederation

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• Beyond Confederation scrutinizes the ideological background of the U.S. Constitution, the rigors of its writing and ratification, and the problems it ... Lees meer

The Papers of John Marshall

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• This twelfth volume of The Papers of John Marshall concludes the first scholarly annotated edition of the correspondence and papers of the great state... Lees meer

Work and Labor in Early America

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• Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize w... Lees meer

The Elusive Republic

Drew R McCoy

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• By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy ... Lees meer

Captain John Smith

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• Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colorful writers to visit America in the colonial period. While his first venture was in Virgini... Lees meer

The Papers of John Marshall

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• Collected here are correspondence, papers, and legal documents--including selected judicial opinions--of American jurist John Marshall. Revolutionary ... Lees meer