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  • - Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic
    af Ashli (University of Miami and 6290 SW 49th Street) White
    358,95 kr.

    It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic.

  • af Matthew (Associate Professor and Chair Mulcahy
    368,95 kr.

    By integrating the West Indies into the larger story of British Atlantic colonization, Mulcahy's work contributes to early American history, Atlantic history, environmental history, and the growing field of disaster studies.

  • - Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751
    af Neil (The University of Texas at Austin) Kamil
    878,95 kr.

    French Huguenots were colonial New York City's most successful artisans, turning out unrivaled works of furniture that were distinguished by unique designs and arcane details.

  • - Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier
    af Gregory Evans (Director of Native American Studies and Professor of History and American Culture Dowd
    383,95 kr.

    They were all, by definition, groundless, but they were not all false, and they influenced the classic issues of historical inquiry: the formation of alliances, the making of revolutions, the expropriation of labor and resources, and the origins of war.

  • - Trading in Colonial New York
    af Cathy (University of Delaware) Matson
    383,95 kr.

    Indeed, middling or lesser merchants fashioned a plausible alternative to mercantilism, and contributed significantly to the challenges Americans offered to British rule in the final colonial years.

  • - How Christianity Created Race
    af Rebecca Anne Goetz
    383,95 - 543,95 kr.

    Using court records, letters, and pamphlets, Goetz suggests new ways of approaching and understanding the deeply entwined relationship between Christianity and race in early America.

  • - Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake
    af Sarah Hand Meacham
    328,95 - 498,95 kr.

    American historians will find this study both enlightening and surprising.

  • - Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850
    af Jenna M. (Assistant Professor of History Gibbs
    538,95 kr.

    Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will take an interest in this provocative work.

  • af Jennifer M. (Simon Fraser University) Spear
    413,95 - 538,95 kr.

    Strikingly argued, richly researched, and methodologically sound, this wide-ranging look at how choices about sex triumphed over established class systems and artificial racial boundaries supplies a refreshing contribution to the history of early Louisiana.

  • - German Lutherans in Colonial British America
    af A. G. (Pennsylvania State University) Roeber
    367,95 kr.

    Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, Roeber's study of German-American settlements and their ideas about liberty and property provides an unprecedented view of how non-English culture and beliefs made their way from Europe to America.

  • - Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment
    af Michael P. Winship
    363,95 kr.

    This study asks: how did the logic of Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile assumptions of the early Enlightenment?; and, faced with a new intellectual world largely opposed to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility?

  • af Michael J. (University of Rochester) Jarvis
    706,95 kr.