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Dunmore's New World
The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves and Two Illegal Royal Weddings
Inbunden, 2013
600 kr
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Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in …
Early Modern Virginia
Reconsidering the Old Dominion
Av Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs
Häftad, 2013
387 kr
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This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond. The contributors represent some of the best of a …
Dunmore's New World
The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, ... Royal Weddings
Häftad, 2015
366 kr
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Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in …
Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Inbunden, 2016
543 kr
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Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In …
Conceived in Crisis
The Revolutionary Creation of an American State
Inbunden, 2020
674 kr
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Conceived in Crisis argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies. To an equal or greater degree, it was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments …
Against Popery
Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism
Av Evan Haefeli
Inbunden, 2020
528 kr
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Although commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically significant than this common conception would suggest. As the essays collected in this volume demonstrate, anti-popery is a powerful lens through which to …
Making the Early Modern Metropolis
Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia
Inbunden, 2022
1236 kr
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Philadelphia was the most dynamic city in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America. In Making the Early Modern Metropolis, Daniel Johnson takes a thematic approach to Philadelphia’s related economic, legal, and popular cultures to provide a comprehensive view of its urban development, …
Making the Early Modern Metropolis
Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia
Häftad, 2022
417 kr
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Philadelphia was the most dynamic city in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America. In Making the Early Modern Metropolis, Daniel Johnson takes a thematic approach to Philadelphia’s related economic, legal, and popular cultures to provide a comprehensive view of its urban development, …
Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories Thereon Depending
From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746
Av James Knight, Jack P. Greene
Inbunden, 2021
877 kr
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Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony's development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most …
Statute Law in Colonial Virginia
Governors, Assemblymen, and the Revisals That Forged the Old Dominion
Inbunden, 2021
482 kr
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Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal …
Washington's Government
Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration
Av Max Edling, Peter J. Kastor
Inbunden, 2021
616 kr
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Washington's Government shows how George Washington's administration the subject of remarkably little previous study was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought. Rather than simply following a blueprint laid out by the Constitution, Washington and his advisors constructed over …
From Independence to the U.S. Constitution
Reconsidering the Critical Period of American History
Av Douglas, Bradburn, Douglas Bradburn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
885 kr
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The "Critical Period" of American history—the years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789—was either the best of times or the worst of times. While some historians have celebrated the achievement of the Constitutional Convention, …
From Independence to the U.S. Constitution
Reconsidering the Critical Period of American History
Av Douglas, Bradburn, Douglas Bradburn m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
387 kr
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The "Critical Period" of American history—the years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789—was either the best of times or the worst of times. While some historians have celebrated the achievement of the Constitutional Convention, …
Travels of Richard Traunter
Two Journeys Through the Native Southeast in 1698 and 1699
Av Richard Traunter, Sandra L. Dahlberg
Inbunden, 2022
592 kr
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In the final years of the seventeenth century, Richard Traunter—an experienced Indian trader fluent in three Indigenous languages—made a number of trips into the interior of Virginia and the Carolina colonies, keeping a record of his travels and the people he encountered. This primary-source …
Travels of Richard Traunter
Two Journeys Through the Native Southeast in 1698 and 1699
Av Richard Traunter, Sandra L. Dahlberg
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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In the final years of the seventeenth century, Richard Traunter—an experienced Indian trader fluent in three Indigenous languages—made a number of trips into the interior of Virginia and the Carolina colonies, keeping a record of his travels and the people he encountered. This primary-source …
Permanent Resident
Excavations and Explorations of George Washington's Life
Av Philip Levy
Inbunden, 2022
398 kr
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No figure in American history has generated more public interest or sustained more scholarly research around his various homes and habitations than has George Washington. The Permanent Resident is the first book to bring the principal archaeological sites of Washington's life together under one …
Plain Paths and Dividing Lines
Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Inbunden, 2023
1119 kr
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It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century …
Plain Paths and Dividing Lines
Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Häftad, 2023
373 kr
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It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century …
To Organize the Sovereign People
Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Inbunden, 2023
1353 kr
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This book explores the struggle to define self-government in the critical years following the Declaration of Independence, when Americans throughout the country looked to the Keystone State of Pennsylvania for guidance on political mobilization and the best ways to create a stable arrangement that …
To Organize the Sovereign People
Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Häftad, 2023
387 kr
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This book explores the struggle to define self-government in the critical years following the Declaration of Independence, when Americans throughout the country looked to the Keystone State of Pennsylvania for guidance on political mobilization and the best ways to create a stable arrangement that …
Evil Necessity
British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Häftad, 2024
329 kr
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A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, …
Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca
Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives
Av Kathryn N. Gray, Amy M. E. Morris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1353 kr
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Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas, and the myths surrounding her down to the present dayThis collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahontas. Contributions from established leaders in the field offer innovative perspectives on the life of …
Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca
Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives
Av Kathryn N. Gray, Amy M. E. Morris m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
402 kr
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Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas, and the myths surrounding her down to the present dayThis collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahontas. Contributions from established leaders in the field offer innovative perspectives on the life of …
Slavery's Medicine
Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean
Inbunden, 2025
1353 kr
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Healthcare and hierarchy in Caribbean plantation slavery From their inception, British Caribbean sugar plantations generated wealth on the basis of nightmarish systems of labor exploitation, where illness was a constant of enslaved life. Then, in the second half of the eighteenth century, …
Slavery's Medicine
Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean
Häftad, 2025
402 kr
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Healthcare and hierarchy in Caribbean plantation slavery From their inception, British Caribbean sugar plantations generated wealth on the basis of nightmarish systems of labor exploitation, where illness was a constant of enslaved life. Then, in the second half of the eighteenth century, …
Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Häftad, 2025
329 kr
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Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In …
Early Modern Virginia
Reconsidering the Old Dominion
Av Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs
Inbunden, 2011
616 kr
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This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond. The contributors represent some of the best of a …
Evil Necessity
British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2013
355 kr
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A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced labourers in the eighteenth century.In The Evil Necessity, …
Creating the British Atlantic
Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation and Continuity
Inbunden, 2013
949 kr
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Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World …
Creating the British Atlantic
Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation and Continuity
Häftad, 2013
456 kr
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Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World …
