Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press imprint: 169 books
by Jacob E. Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Tench Coxe participated in or commented on most of the major events in American history from the Revolution to the 1820s. His long career of public involvement embodies many of the significant historical themes of the time: he was a Philadelphia aristocrat, a loyalist out of opportunism, a merchant...
Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution
Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
These journal accounts and letters form one of the most engaging and readable accounts of the American Revolution. Written with directness, simplicity, and charm by the wife of the commanding general of Brunswick troops in the British army, the narrative reveals the conditions in revolutionary America.
Originally...
The Stamp Act Crisis
Prologue to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
'Impressive! . . . The authors have given us a searching account of the crisis and provided some memorable portraits of officials in America impaled on the dilemma of having to enforce a measure which they themselves opposed.'--New York Times
'A brilliant contribution to the colonial field....
The Governors-General
The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people. He describes the entire military connection that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This collection of outstanding essays in the history of early American law is designed to meet the demand for a basic introduction to the literature of colonial and early United States law. Eighteen essays from historical and legal journals by outstanding authorities explore the major themes in American...
Moses Brown
Reluctant Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Moses Brown carried on a wide range of business activities, seeking profit as capital for humanitarian purposes. He became a reluctant participant and eventually a leader in many reform movements--crusades against slavery and war; efforts to provide education for the underprivileged, orphans, and...
Prologue to Revolution
Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis; on...
Seeds of Extinction
Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This study is the first to explain how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the Indian and directed his selection of policy toward the native tribes. Sheehan presents the paradoxical and pathetic story of how the Jeffersonian generation,...
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747
A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as...
Colonists in Bondage
White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This is the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who sold" themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one. Their leaven has gone into...
by Ira D. Gruber
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
By focusing on the Howe brothers, their political connections, their relationships with the British ministry, their attitude toward the Revolution, and their military activities in America, Gruber answers the frequently asked question of why the British failed to end the American Revolution in its...
Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775
A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Although it is obvious that politics, money, and economic conditions were closely interrelated in the twenty years before the Revolution, this is the first account to bring together these strands of early American experience. Ernst also provides and analytical case study of the impact on America of...
by James R. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The dissolution of the ill-starred Virginia Company in 1624 left Virginia -- now England's first royal colony -- without a formal raison d'etre. Most historians have suggested that the nascent local societies were anarchic, under the thrall of violent and unscrupulous men.
James Perry asserts...
Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world.
The practice of captivity attests to the violence...