Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press: 169 books
Foul Means
The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class,...
The Art of Conversion
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile...
Citizen Spectator
Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation,...
Beyond Confederation
Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Beyond Confederation scrutinizes the ideological background of the U.S. Constitution, the rigors of its writing and ratification, and the problems it both faced and provoked immediately after ratification. The essays in this collection question much of the heritage of eighteenth-century constitutional...
by Sarah Knott
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural movement that celebrated the human capacity...
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of...
by Sharon Block
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.
Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more...
by Benjamin Quarles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the...
In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local...
Masterless Mistresses
The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance...
New Netherland Connections
Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within...
White Over Black
American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher...
The Road to Mobocracy
Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social corrective, tolerated by public officials. It became...
Selling Empire
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly...