Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Jewel A Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This volume documents not only the academic and music curricula offered at a distinguished seminary, but the importance of piano study from a sociolog... Lees meer

A Quaker Goes to Spain

H L Dufour Woolfley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with t... Lees meer

'Pleasing for Our Use'

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This collection of essays forms an outstanding resource about the music of the Moravians, eighteenth-century America in general, and the organ-buildin... Lees meer

America's First Chaplain

Kevin J Dellape

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• America's First Chaplain studies the family background, education, ministerial career, ideology, political activities, exile to England, and return to... Lees meer

Not for Filthy Lucre's Sake

Daniel J Weeks

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• Not for Filth Lucre's Sake tells the story of Richard Saltar -- an early settler of Freehold, New Jersey, and an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln -- who he... Lees meer

The Ordeal of Thomas Barton

James P Myers

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This study draws upon Thomas Barton's Forbes expedition journal, and a vast collection of manuscript letters, sermons, and other contemporary document... Lees meer

Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• Faith and Slavery considers how in diverse places--the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa--the Presbyterian faith shap... Lees meer

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America

Linda Myrsiades

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This study focuses on two critical figures in late eighteenth-century America--the physician Benjamin Rush and the journalist William Cobbett-- as the... Lees meer

A Quaker Goes to Spain

H L Dufour Woolfley

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• A Quaker Goes to Spain is a multifaceted historical narrative. It recounts in detail a unique but virtually forgotten U.S. diplomatic initiative durin... Lees meer

The Journals of the Moravian Mission to Georgia, 1734-1737

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This volume contains the journals of four Moravians who traveled to and lived in the colony of Georgia between 1734 and 1737. The journals describe th... Lees meer

Thomas Barclay (1728-1793)

Priscilla H Roberts, Richard S Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• Long overdue, this is the first-ever biography of Thomas Barclay (1728-93), the first American consul to serve the United States abroad and the first ... Lees meer

The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730-1795

Richard S Grimes

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transformation as they migrated westward across the Alleghe... Lees meer

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735-1738

John Thomas Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia examines the lives of five minister/missionaries in Georgia from 1735 to 1738 just before three of the... Lees meer

Backcountry Crucibles

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, whose unique location (close enough to Ne... Lees meer

Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies

Sarah Fatherly

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This study explores womenOs central involvement in the creation of an elite class in colonial Philadelphia. It shows how major mercantile families ado... Lees meer

Founding Friends

D?antonio Patricia

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an ... Lees meer

The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730-1795

Richard S Grimes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transformation as they migrated westward across the Alleghe... Lees meer

Francis Johnson, 1792-1844

Charles K Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• Nineteenth-century musician Francis Johnson, a free black Philadelphia native, lived at a fortunate confluence of musical traditions that abounded in ... Lees meer

A Wonderful Work Of God

Robert W. Brockway, Rick Cypert

• Hardcover | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• The Great Awakening was the American colonial phase of an evangelical revival marking a re-emergence of Reformation fervor that swept through Britain ... Lees meer

Self, Community, World

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• This book traces Moravian educational ideas and practices in the eighteenth century. A transnational fellowship rather than a nation state, the Moravi... Lees meer

'Food for Apollo'

Dorothy T Potter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• Food for Apollo by Dorothy Potter, describes and evaluates the growth and scope of cultivated music in Philadelphia, from the early eighteenth-century... Lees meer

Contested Commonwealths

William A Pencak

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
• United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crow... Lees meer