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In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a "new economic history".

Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the essential role of women in forming and securing relationships, and she reveals how a dense web of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up.

Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, this title suggests that there were three active parties - the partisan, court, and country. From the land-grant maze following the 1779 migration, through a brief Tory movement, the author traces the parties' development and their struggle for power in the world of postrevolutionary Kentucky politics.

Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. This volume investigates these diverse artifacts - from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices - to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire.

This distinguished study brings to light and interprets thoughtfully a vast fund of information on the scientific interests and contributions of the revolutionary generation. It presents an integrated discussion of the character of science in colonial America, and it assesses the changes made in this pattern during the American Revolution. Originally published in 1956.

Analysing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s.

This is the definitive study of the unsuccessful rebellion in Virginia led in 1676 by the younger Nathaniel Bacon, celebrated in history as the rebel, against Sir William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia and one of the lords proprietors of Carolina. Using all known English and American sources, Washburn sheds light on many misconceptions surrounding the episode.

This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology.

Describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern US royal colonies - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia - in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.

Presents 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 the fiber of American society.

The first book dealing with any period in American history which describes and analyses 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. Originally published in 1972.

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

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In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighbouring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonising distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting their close interconnection as fields for colonial experimentation.

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 dynamics of this system from its origins to the end of French colonial rule.

Taking a material culture approach, this book examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life.

History and Present State of Virginia: A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish

Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

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

The author of this study investigates 18th-century social and economic thought - an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts and assumptions - integrating the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era.

Presenting an examination of Spanish California, this book aims to illuminate Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. Concentrating on the experiences of the Costanoan and Esselen peoples during the colonial period, it concludes with an epilogue that carries the story of their survival.

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

The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response. The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution.

Part three of three volume set, this text opens with Monroe's inauguration, reports the postwar period, and chronicles the changing developments in the 1820s. Originally published in 1978.

Part one of three volume set, this text covers the beginnings of the new government through the first six years of Jefferson's presidency. Originally published in 1978.

Part two of three volume set, this text begins with the Congress that met following the Chesapeake incident, covers the period of the War of 1812, and closes with the end of Madison's administration. Originally published in 1978.

This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Benjamin Franklin's Letters to the Press, 1758-1775: