Early America: History, Context, Culture – serie
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Palatines, Liberty, and Property
German Lutherans in Colonial British America
Av A. G. Roeber
Häftad, 1998
430 kr
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In Palatines, Liberty, and Property A. G. Roeber explains why so many Germans, when they faced critical choices in 1776, became active supporters of the patriot cause. Employing a variety of German-language sources and and following all the major German migration streams, Roeber explores German …
Seers of God
Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment
Häftad, 2000
398 kr
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Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic of …
Merchants and Empire
Trading in Colonial New York
Av Cathy Matson
Häftad, 2003
452 kr
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In Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's commercial wholesalers, especially the middling merchants who, as a majority of active traders, affected the character of city commerce over its colonial years. Although less prominent in transatlantic …
Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783
Häftad, 2008
418 kr
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Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly became the most feared part of their physical environment, destroying staple crops and provisions, …
Encountering Revolution
Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic
Av Ashli White
Häftad, 2012
418 kr
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Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American …
Every Home a Distillery
Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake
Häftad, 2013
379 kr
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In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake. Her fascinating story is one defined by gender, class, technology, and changing patterns of production. Alcohol was …
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850
Inbunden, 2014
696 kr
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Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half …
Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes-poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality - New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer M. Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the …
Baptism of Early Virginia
How Christianity Created Race
Häftad, 2016
390 kr
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In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies-ultimately in the idea of "hereditary …
Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints
An Atlantic History of Bermuda, 1609–1684
Inbunden, 2022
782 kr
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How can the small, isolated island of Bermuda help us to understand the early expansion of English America?First discovered by Europeans in 1505, the island of Bermuda had no indigenous population and no permanent European presence until the early seventeenth century. Settled five years after …
Bodies Politic
Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830
Inbunden, 2004
591 kr
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A century after the Pilgrims' landing, the ongoing interactions of conquered Indians, English settlers, and enslaved Africans in southern New England had produced a closely interwoven, though radically divided, colonial society. In Bodies Politic, John Wood Sweet argues that the coming together of …
Fortress of the Soul
Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751
Av Neil Kamil
Inbunden, 2005
894 kr
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French Huguenots made enormous contributions to the life and culture of colonial New York during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Huguenot craftsmen were the city's most successful artisans, turning out unrivaled works of furniture which were distinguished by unique designs and arcane …
Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Inbunden, 2009
551 kr
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A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes-poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality-New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city's …
Every Home a Distillery
Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake
Inbunden, 2009
537 kr
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In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake. Her fascinating story is one defined by gender, class, technology, and changing patterns of production. Alcohol was …
Baptism of Early Virginia
How Christianity Created Race
Inbunden, 2012
567 kr
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In "The Baptism of Early Virginia", Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies - ultimately in the idea of …
Groundless
Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier
Inbunden, 2016
356 kr
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Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white …
