The Character of John Adams

Peter Shaw

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• The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by Shaw's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention ... Lees meer

Robert Livingston and the Politics of Colonial New York, 1654-1728

Lawrence H Leder

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• This is the biography of a wily Scots settler who arrived in New York in 1675 and became one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. Hi... 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

Slave Counterpoint

Philip D Morgan

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• On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake... Lees meer

Children of Uncertain Fortune

Daniel Livesay

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• By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain For... Lees meer

The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735-1789

Brooke Hindle

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• This distinguished study brings to light and interprets thoughtfully a vast fund of information on the scientific interests and contributions of the r... 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

The Royal Governors of Georgia, 1754-1775

W W Abbot

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• The political history of Georgia--the youngest and smallest of the thirteen colonies--condenses into a relatively short span much of the colonial hist... Lees meer

Unmoored

Ana Schwartz

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• New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a soci... Lees meer

Voices of the Enslaved

Sophie White

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• In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men -- like the testimony of free colonists -- was meticulously ... Lees meer

Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

Mark G Hanna

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• Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt su... 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

Columbia Rising

John L Brooke

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• In Columbia Rising , Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of soci... Lees meer

Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic

Lisa Voigt

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• Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captiv... Lees meer

The Persistence of Empire

Eliga H Gould

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• The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this liv... Lees meer

Ireland in the Virginian Sea

Audrey Horning

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• In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and... Lees meer

The Common Cause

Robert G Parkinson

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• When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the A... Lees meer

Technology in Early America

Brooke Hindle

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• This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the firs... Lees meer

For God, King, and People

Alexander B Haskell

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• By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Hask... Lees meer

Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782

Marquis De Chastellux

• Paperback | Engels | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo | nr. 2
• This is a definitive edition of an American classic of great literary and historical value. Chastellux, one of three major generals who accompanied Ro... Lees meer

The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792

• Paperback | Engels | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo | nr. 3
• George Mason was the oldest of that brilliant group of gentlemen radicals from Virginia who provided much of the intellectual structure of the war for... Lees meer

The Governors-General

Stephen Saunders Webb

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• In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic traditio... Lees meer

American Curiosity

Susan Scott Parrish

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• Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity , S... Lees meer

The Gentle Puritan

Edmund S Morgan

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• Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a "landmark in the history of the American m... Lees meer