Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press imprint: 169 books
The Ordeal of the Longhouse
The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century...
Town House
Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This collection of Franklin's political writings contains more than double the number previously recognized as his. Much of this writing was performed during the intensive press campaigns for repeal by parliament of obnoxious measures, such as the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts. His letters reveal the...
The Elusive Republic
Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.
Strangers Within the Realm
Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean.
An introduction surveys British imperial...
Peter Harrison
First American Architect
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This illustrated story of America's first architect is based on material from a number of contemporary sources in the colonial period. Harrison's buildings reflect the classical mode, and they fortunately survived the Revolution. His designs include the King's Chapel, Boston; the Synagogue, Newport;...
Winthrop's Boston
A Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Winthrop's ideals were quite different from those generally ascribed to him, and the reality in New England was quite different from the ideals. The broad purpose of this analytical and interpretive study is to establish a Winthropian ideal and assess the difference between the ideal and the reality...
by Jackson Turner Main
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This is the first book dealing with any period in American history which attempts to describe and analyze national politics through studying voting patterns in state legislatures. During the 1780s two relatively stable legislative parties" emerged in every state, and each state possessed common characteristics....
by Paul W. Mapp
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking...
George Croghan
Wilderness Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
George Croghan--land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent--was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the West before the Revolution. This study is based on Croghan's long-lost personal papers that were found by the author in an old Philadelphia...
Bonds of Alliance
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Baron Ludwig von Closen-Haydenburg's lively account of his campaigns in America as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau during the Revolution is at last available here in published form. This is not only a translation but a critical edition that identifies the numerous eighteenth-century sources the Baron used...
The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759
A Study of Amphibious Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France's Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada. This book sketches the background strategy that led William Pitt to send an expedition to capture them, but it is chiefly the story of the...
Caribbean New Orleans
Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean...