Perspectives on Early America – serie
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Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815
Letters from a Wayward Son
Inbunden, 2022
2658 kr
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Placed within a comprehensive contextual historical narrative, The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784–1815 offers a compelling portrait of one brilliant but compromised man’s perspective of his changing times.Daniel Waldo Lincoln, the second son of Levi Lincoln, a prominent Massachusetts …
Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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This study engages with the emerging field of energy humanities to provide close readings of several early American oriental-observer tales. The popular genre of orientalism offered Americans a means to critique new ideas of identity, history, and nationality accompanying protoindustrialization and …
Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution
John Adams and Jonathan Sewall
Av Colin Nicolson, Owen Dudley Edwards
Häftad, 2020
381 kr
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Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political …
Conscience as a Historical Force
The Liberation Theology of Herman Husband
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724–1795) and his heavily metaphorical political and religious writings during the “Age of Revolution.”This book addresses the …
Conscience as a Historical Force
The Liberation Theology of Herman Husband
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724–1795) and his heavily metaphorical political and religious writings during the “Age of Revolution.”This book addresses the …
Roots of American Politics
From Antiquity to the Early Republic
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon.Before the modern era, European republics relied on procedural complexity in office-filling to arrive at neutral government. They did so with such technical consistency over a long …
Roots of American Politics
From Antiquity to the Early Republic
Häftad, 2026
725 kr
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This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon.Before the modern era, European republics relied on procedural complexity in office-filling to arrive at neutral government. They did so with such technical consistency over a long …
John Adams in the Parisian Crucible
The Cultural Foundations of American Power, 1778–1801
Inbunden, 2026
2542 kr
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While the diplomatic career of John Adams in Europe is frequently side-lined as a series of petty personal conflicts, the early transatlantic relationship was defined by a much more sophisticated intellectual struggle for sovereignty. John Adams in the Parisian Crucible reframes early American …
Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808
Av Maurice Jackson, Susan Kozel
Häftad, 2017
805 kr
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This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition …
Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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This study engages with the emerging field of energy humanities to provide close readings of several early American oriental-observer tales. The popular genre of orientalism offered Americans a means to critique new ideas of identity, history, and nationality accompanying protoindustrialization and …
Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution
John Adams and Jonathan Sewall
Av Colin Nicolson, Owen Dudley Edwards
Inbunden, 2018
1055 kr
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Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political …
Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808
Av Maurice Jackson, Susan Kozel
Inbunden, 2015
2736 kr
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This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition …
