Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press imprint: 169 books
In the Eye of All Trade
Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community...
Warring for America
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent and understand the world they inhabited.
Drawing...
Fish into Wine
The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America's oldest industry, the cod fishery.
The unregulated English...
An Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina,...
The Gentle Puritan
A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a "landmark in the history of the American mind" by Clifford K. Shipton when it appeared in 1962. Stiles lived at a critical time--the transition from the Reformation to the Enlightenment,...
Through a Glass Darkly
Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early American history, these leading scholars in the field...
Rufus King
American Federalist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This is the first full-length biography of Rufus King. It emphasizes politics and diplomacy but also presents a well-rounded appraisal of King's personality, outlook, and interests. Many little-known facets of King's life are illuminated, including his relationship to the Burr-Hamilton duel.
Originally...
Loyalists and Redcoats
A Study in British Revolutionary Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Focusing on the role of the American Loyalists in Great Britain's military policy throughout the Revolutionary War, this book also analyzes the impact of British politics on plans to utilize those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown. The capacity of the Loyalists to affect the war's outcome...
Technology in Early America
Needs and Opportunities for Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology.
Originally published in 1966.
A UNC Press...
Slave Counterpoint
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these...
by Lynn Warren Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This biography of William Plumer--New Hampshire lawyer, politician, senator, and governor--furnishes unique insight into state, local, and national politics in the formative period of party development. Plumer was an important participant in the American political scene for forty years.
Originally...
by John J. Waters
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Otis family was largely responsible for committing Barnstable to the revolutionary cause, a move that irrevocably undermined the placid, homogenous nature of their society. As he discusses the reactions of the Otises and their community to this crisis, Waters illuminates the causes of the Revolution...
New Jersey's Jeffersonian Republicans
The Genesis of an Early Party Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Historians now recognize that development of American party machinery is most accurately and profitably studied at the state level. The emphasis of this work is on party machinery, for it was in this area that New Jersey's Jeffersonian Republican party made its most original contributions to the emerging...