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    982,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
    af Christopher P. Iannini
    462,95 kr.

  • - Mark Catesby's New World Vision
     
    647,95 kr.

    This interdisciplinary collection considers Mark Catesby's endeavours as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned.

  • - Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
    af Theodore Dwight Bozeman
    617,95 kr.

    In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist Strain clarifies what Puritanism in its disciplinary mode meant for an early modern society struggling with problems of change, order, and identity.Focusing on ascetic teachings and rites, which in their severity fostered the "precisianist strain" prevalent in Puritan thought and devotional practice, Bozeman traces the reactions of believers put under ever more meticulous demands. Sectarian theologies of ease and consolation soon formed in reaction to those demands, Bozeman argues, eventually giving rise to a "first wave" of antinomian revolt, including the American conflicts of 1636-1638. Antinomianism, based on the premise of salvation without strictness and duty, was not so much a radicalization of Puritan content as a backlash against the whole project of disciplinary religion. Its reconceptualization of self and responsibility would affect Anglo-American theology for decades to come.

  • - Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
    af James H. Merrell
    534,95 kr.

    Follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. This title tells the story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.

  • - American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
    af Winthrop D. Jordan
    577,95 kr.

    The author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review

  • - Empires, Texts, Identities
     
    552,95 kr.

    Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this work investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.

  • - The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
    af Emily Clark
    527,95 kr.

    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 different descents, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, this work exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.

  • - Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic
    af Colin Wells
    677,95 kr.

    At the close of the 18th century, the poet and clergyman Timothy Dwight waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of ""infidelity"". This text re-examines this episode by focusing on ""The Triumph of Fidelity"" (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight's campaign.

  • - The Politics of Reputation in British America
    af Patricia U. Bonomi
    527,95 kr.

    This volume looks at the life of Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 and 1708, whose range of alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects.

  • - Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
    af Saul Cornell
    587,95 kr.

    A study of the Anti-Federalist legacy. Saul Cornell argues that, while the Anti-Federalists won the battle over ratification of the Constitution in 1788, their ideas continue to define the soul of US politics. He explores the range and influence of Anti-Federalist thought on the early Republic.

  • - English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
    af James Horn
    587,95 kr.

    Often compared unfavourably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. This study challenges this view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behaviour on the early Chesapeake.

  • - Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
    af Cornelia Hughes Dayton
    587,95 kr.

    This study investigates changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions - including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape and slander. It argues that women had more opportunity to be heard during the Puritan era.

  • - The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783
    af Daniel H. Usner Jr.
    522,95 kr.

    Examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton South.

  • af Alan Taylor
    582,95 kr.

    This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.

  • - Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
    af Lorena S. Walsh
    1.227,95 kr.

    A history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the 'Golden Age' of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. It contains stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers.

  • - Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
    af James F. Brooks
    522,95 kr.

    An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throughout the Southwest borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th century.

  • - The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
    af Daniel K. Richter
    582,95 kr.

    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 a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.

  • - Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
    af Steven C. Bullock
    667,95 kr.

    Traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. The text follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction by a massive anti-Masonic movement and its reconfiguration into the brotherhood we know today.

  • - British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
    af Eliga H. Gould
    489,95 kr.

    This work examines the British public's predominantly loyal reponse to its government's actions during the American revolution. Drawing on nearly 1000 political pamphlets, as well as broad sides, private memoirs and popular cartoons it offers an insight into 18th-century British political culture.

  • - John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676
    af Walter W. Woodward
    457,95 kr.

  • af Sarah Knott
    522,95 kr.

    In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Moving beyond traditional accounts of social unrest, republican and liberal ideology, and the rise of the autonomous individual, this work offers an interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformation of self and society.

  • - Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
    af Paul A. Gilje
    551,95 kr.

    Provides the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. Paul Gilje relates the practices of New York mobs to their American and European roots and uses both historical and anthropological methods to show how those mobs adapted to local conditions.

  • - The Birth of an American National Identity
    af Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
    547,95 kr.

    This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.

  • - Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
    af Holly Brewer
    522,95 kr.

    In mid-17-century England, people were born into authority based on their social status. By the late 18th century, however, English and American law began to emphasize contractual relations based on informed consent. This work explores how the changing legal status of children illuminates the debates over consent and status in England and America.

  • - An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
    af Clare A. Lyons
    497,95 kr.

    Shows that men and women created a vibrant urban pleasure culture, including the eroticization of print culture. By reading representations of sex against actual behavior, the author reveals the clash of meanings given to sex and illuminates struggles to recast sexuality in order to eliminate its subversive potential.

  • - Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
    af Kathleen M. Brown
    442,95 kr.

    The origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, and assesses its role in the construction of racism in Virginia.

  • af Gordon S. Wood
    463,94 kr.

    This text describes the evolution of political thought from the Declaration to the ratification of the Constitution. The author discusses the debate over Republicanism.

  • - Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
    af Francis Jennings
    462,95 kr.

    The traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent - a 'virgin land' in which Native Americans were assigned the role of foil whose contribution was to stimulate the energy of European dispossessors. This book recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion.

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    557,95 kr.

    William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.

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