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Offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of Havana. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of colour and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana.

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland. Their success rested partly on their being key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white development. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence rested with the Anishinaabeg themselves.

Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to demonstrate how enslaved people viewed and experienced their worlds.

Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroque charts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the genesis of its maritime empire.

One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early US Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history. Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic collects thirteen of Lewis's most important essays.

Reorienting the history of US expansion around Native American and African American histories, Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.

How did the American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, Robert Parkinson provides a troubling answer: racial fear.

Examines the intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes was a pivotal question whose solution would largely determine the country's progress toward national union.

Argues that British imperial protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. That Revolution forced a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic.

When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was an ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he had become a bona fide celebrity known simply as Mr. O. The Strange Genius of Mr. O is at once the biography of a remarkable performer, and a story of the US during the founding era.

Examines the connection between patriot discourse and long-standing debates - already central to the1707 Act of Union - about the relationship among piety, moral philosophy,and political unionism. Mailer's exploration of Witherspoon's thought and influence suggests that, for the founders in his circle, civic virtue rested on personal religious awakening.

Offers the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world.

Examines the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary era, Paul Polgar unearths this coalition's comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality.

Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyses depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives.

This biography of William Plumer - New Hampshire lawyer, politician, senator, and governor - furnishes unique insight into state, local, and national politics in the formative period of party development. Plumer was an important participant in the American political scene for forty years. Originally published in 1962.

Fraden explores artist Rhodessa Jones's theater work with incarcerated women, known as the Medea Project. Balancing narrative and commentary, Fraden chronicles the process of turning the inmates' personal stories into public performance and investigates the possibilities for communication and social change of such combinations of art and activism.

Winthrop's Boston: A Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649

Abbot's study of the colony of Georgia, from the time it came under the administration of the Crown in 1754 until the beginning of the American Revolution, tells the story of unprecedented expansion and growth against a backdrop of fast-developing crisis throughout the Empire. Originally published in 1959.

This absorbing appraisal of colonial South Carolina political history is developed in three parts: The Age of the Goose Creek Men", covering 1670-1712; "Breakdown and Recovery", in which the central dispute was over local currency, 1712-43; and "The Rise of the Commons House of Assembly, 1743-63". Originally published in 1966.

In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France's Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada. This book sketches the background strategy that led William Pitt to send an expedition to capture them, but it is chiefly the story of the campaign itself. Originally published in 1955.

This is the first full-length biography of Rufus King. It emphasizes politics and diplomacy but also presents a well-rounded appraisal of King's personality, outlook, and interests. Many little-known facets of King's life are illuminated, including his relationship to the Burr-Hamilton duel. Originally published in 1968.

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 Afro-Americans; and programs of urban redevelopment and public health. Originally published in 1962.

This is the biography of a wily Scots settler who arrived in New York in 1675 and became one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. His career illustrates the growing breach between English and American approaches to political and administrative problems. Originally published in 1961.

George Croghan - land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent - was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the US West before the Revolution. This study is based on Croghan's long-lost personal papers that were found by the author in an old Philadelphia attic. Originally published in 1959.

Describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyses the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system. Originally published in 1960.

Focusing on the role of the American Loyalists in Great Britain's military policy throughout the Revolutionary War, this book also analyses the impact of British politics on plans to utilize those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown.

The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colourful private life by Shaw's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. Originally published in 1976.

Pinckney's lifetime as a leading member of the southern oligarchy is important to an understanding of that group's assumptions about itself, its aspirations, and its exacting standards of public and private conduct for its leaders. It also provides insight into the development of the Federalist and Republican parties in the South.