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Beyond Redemption
Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War
Inbunden, 2013
876 kr
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In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists …
Frontier Seaport
Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrept
Inbunden, 2014
464 kr
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Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity to …
Hercules in the Cradle
War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
Inbunden, 2014
429 kr
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Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. The conquest of the North American continent …
Holy Nation
The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Inbunden, 2015
416 kr
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Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and …
Beyond Redemption
Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War
Häftad, 2015
262 kr
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In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists …
Conceived in Doubt
Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
Häftad, 2015
246 kr
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Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition - and in spite of evangelicalism's more authoritarian and reactionary aspects. In …
Riotous Flesh
Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2015
876 kr
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Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to …
Riotous Flesh
Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2015
306 kr
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Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to …
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves
Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
Inbunden, 2015
876 kr
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As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men-men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better …
Making of Tocqueville's America
Law and Association in the Early United States
Inbunden, 2015
385 kr
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Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations-and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century Americans …
Liberty Power
Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics
Inbunden, 2016
429 kr
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Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most …
Building a Revolutionary State
The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783
Häftad, 2018
288 kr
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How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed under the period’s disorder. Yet by the end of …
Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth
The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake
Inbunden, 2018
481 kr
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The English settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some sought wealth from the land, while others saw it as a place of trade, a political experiment, or a potential spiritual sanctuary. But like other European colonizers in the Americas, …
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves
Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
Häftad, 2019
315 kr
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As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of …
Trading Spaces
The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism
Av Emma Hart
Inbunden, 2019
429 kr
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When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain's …
Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
Inbunden, 2020
467 kr
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The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that …
Province of Affliction
Illness and the Making of Early New England
Inbunden, 2020
525 kr
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How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was especially pressing in colonial America, where episodic bouts of sickness were pervasive, chronic ails common, and epidemics all too familiar.In The Province of Affliction, …
Liberty Power
Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics
Häftad, 2020
279 kr
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Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage—but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most …
Accidental Pluralism
America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662
Av Evan Haefeli
Inbunden, 2021
425 kr
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The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because …
Wives Not Slaves
Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions
Inbunden, 2021
481 kr
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Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital difficulties in the New Hampshire Gazette—a more common practice for the time and place than contemporary readers might think. John Davis began the exchange after …
Trading Freedom
How Trade with China Defined Early America
Inbunden, 2022
437 kr
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Explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic. The economic and geographic development of the early United States is usually thought of in trans-Atlantic terms, defined by entanglements with Europe and Africa. In Trading Freedom, …
Great and Rising Nation
Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic
Inbunden, 2022
1105 kr
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A Great and Rising Nation illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States' imperialist naval aspirations.Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce …
Great and Rising Nation
Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic
Häftad, 2022
358 kr
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A Great and Rising Nation illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States' imperialist naval aspirations.Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce …
Banking on Slavery
Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
Inbunden, 2023
1263 kr
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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every …
Banking on Slavery
Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
Häftad, 2023
358 kr
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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every …
Hercules in the Cradle
War, Money, and the American State, 1783–1867
Häftad, 2023
315 kr
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Explores the origin and evolution of American public finance and shows how the nation’s rise to great-power status in the nineteenth century rested on its ability to go into debt.Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth …
Flowers, Guns, and Money
Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism
Inbunden, 2023
903 kr
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A fascinating historical account of a largely forgotten statesman, who pioneered a form of patriotism that left an indelible mark on the early United States.Joel Roberts Poinsett’s (1779–1851) brand of self-interested patriotism illuminates the paradoxes of the antebellum United States. He was a …
Flowers, Guns, and Money
Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism
Häftad, 2023
248 kr
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A fascinating historical account of a largely forgotten statesman, who pioneered a form of patriotism that left an indelible mark on the early United States.Joel Roberts Poinsett’s (1779–1851) brand of self-interested patriotism illuminates the paradoxes of the antebellum United States. He was a …
Trading Spaces
The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism
Av Emma Hart
Häftad, 2024
323 kr
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Looks at the shift from the marketplace as an actual place to a theoretical idea and how this shaped the early American economy.When we talk about the economy, “the market” is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has …
Promise to Pay
The Politics and Power of Money in Early America
Inbunden, 2024
1017 kr
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An incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America. Promise to Pay follows America’s first paper money—the “bills of credit” of British North America—from its seventeenth-century origins as a means of war finance to its pivotal role in …
