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Contested Bodies
Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
Av Sasha Turner
Häftad, 2019
402 kr
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It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before …
Dispossessed Lives
Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Häftad, 2018
340 kr
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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us …
Parades and the Politics of the Street
Festive Culture in the Early American Republic
E-bok, 2010
437 kr
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Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were …
Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America
E-bok, 2015
571 kr
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On the eve of the American Revolution there existed throughout the British-American colonial world a variety of contradictory expectations about the political process. Not only was there disagreement over the responsibilities of voters and candidates, confusion extended beyond elections to the …
These Fiery Frenchified Dames
Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia
E-bok, 2010
437 kr
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On July 4, 1796, a group of women gathered in York, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of American independence. They drank tea and toasted the Revolution, the Constitution, and, finally, the rights of women. This event would have been unheard of thirty years before, but a popular …
In My Power
Letter Writing and Communications in Early America
E-bok, 2011
571 kr
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In My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United States. In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a …
Native Ground
Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent
E-bok, 2011
504 kr
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In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, …
Religion and Profit
Moravians in Early America
E-bok, 2013
489 kr
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The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian …
Nation of Women
Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians
Av Gunlög Fur
E-bok, 2012
437 kr
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A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America.In Delaware society at the …
Liberty on the Waterfront
American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution
E-bok, 2012
504 kr
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Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with …
Zamumo's Gifts
Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast
E-bok, 2012
437 kr
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In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for …
Unwelcome Americans
Living on the Margin in Early New England
E-bok, 2010
424 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn eighteenth-century America, no centralized system of welfare existed to assist people who found themselves without food, medical care, or shelter. Any poor relief available was provided through local taxes, and these funds were quickly …
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn
Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 178-185
E-bok, 2013
940 kr
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Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of …
Doomsayers
Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution
Av Susan Juster
E-bok, 2010
427 kr
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The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old …
Town Born
The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution
Av Barry Levy
E-bok, 2011
504 kr
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor-indentured servitude and chattel slavery-in order to produce staple export crops like rice, …
Abraham in Arms
War and Gender in Colonial New England
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old Testament resonated …
Shame and the Sorrow
Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around …
First City
Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory
Av Gary B. Nash
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of …
Embodied History
The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia
E-bok, 2013
427 kr
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Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of …
Sealed with Blood
War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America
E-bok, 2010
437 kr
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The first martyr to the cause of American liberty was Major General Joseph Warren, a well-known political orator, physician, and president of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Shot in the face at close range at Bunker Hill, Warren was at once transformed into a national hero, with his story …
Poor Indians
British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility
E-bok, 2010
415 kr
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Between the English Civil War of 1642 and the American Revolution, countless British missionaries announced their intention to "spread the gospel" among the native North American population. Despite the scope of their endeavors, they converted only a handful of American Indians to Christianity. …
Weaver's Craft
Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania
E-bok, 2011
788 kr
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Cloth was one of the most important commodities in the early modern world, and colonial North Americans had to develop creative strategies to acquire it. Although early European settlers came from societies in which hand textile production was central to the economy, local conditions in North …
Subjects Unto the Same King
Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England
E-bok, 2014
571 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleLand ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King, a book that cogently redefines the relationship between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century …
Many Identities, One Nation
The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic
Av Liam Riordan
E-bok, 2010
493 kr
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The richly diverse population of the mid-Atlantic region distinguished it from the homogeneity of Puritan New England and the stark differences of the plantation South that still dominate our understanding of early America. In Many Identities, One Nation, Liam Riordan explores how the American …
Head in Edward Nugent's Hand
Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English …
Beyond the Farm
National Ambitions in Rural New England
Av J. M. Opal
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American …
First Lady of Letters
Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence
E-bok, 2011
694 kr
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Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Her name, though, has virtually disappeared from the public consciousness. Thanks to …
Sweet Liberty
The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique
E-bok, 2012
504 kr
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From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost against Spanish and English dominance in the Caribbean, the island was transformed by the increase in European demand for sugar, coffee, and indigo. …
Peoples of the River Valleys
The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians
E-bok, 2013
427 kr
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Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially …
Ties That Buy
Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America
E-bok, 2012
437 kr
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In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late …
