Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press imprint: 169 books
The Persistence of Empire
British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal...
by W. W. Abbot
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The political history of Georgia--the youngest and smallest of the thirteen colonies--condenses into a relatively short span much of the colonial history of America. Abbot's study of the colony of Georgia, from the time it came under the administration of the Crown in 1754 until the beginning of the...
by Carl Ubbelohde
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system.
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The Fledgling Province
Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province. In addition to black slavery, religion, and education, he examines...
Sugar and Slaves
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production...
American Curiosity
Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth...
A People's Army
Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A People's Army documents the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the...
Tobacco and Slaves
The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both...
Revolutionary Brotherhood
Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. He follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction...
Education in the Forming of American Society
Needs and Opportunities for Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a pungent revision of the professional educator's school of history, Bailyn traces the cultural context of education in early American society and the evolution of educational standards in the colonies. His analysis ranges beyond formal education to encompass such vital social determinants as the...
Fatal Revolutions
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. Iannini argues that these transformations...
by David S. Shields
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various 'texts'--conversations, letters, newspapers, and privately circulated manuscripts--David Shields reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.
Gentlemen Freeholders
Political Practices in Washington's Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Here is a vivid picture of late eighteenth-century Virginia's keen and often hot-tempered local politics. Sydnor has filled his book with the lively details of campaign practices, the drama of election day, the workings of the county oligarchies, and the practical politics of that training school...
Seventeenth-Century America
Essays in Colonial History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this series of provocative essays, nine specialists in early American history examine some of the more important aspects of the seventeenth-century colonial experience, presenting an impressive sampling of modern historical research on such topics as colonists and Indians, people and society, church...