A Roger Ekirch: 3 books
by A. Roger Ekirch
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
"Ekirch out-kidnaps Stevenson in this thrilling, thoroughly documented story." —Booklist, starred review
No saga of personal hardship so captivated the British public in the eighteenth century as that of James Annesley, the presumptive heir of five aristocratic titles and scion...
American Sanctuary
Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From “one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession” (Gordon S. Wood)—a dazzling and original work of history.
A. Roger Ekirch’s American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered...
'Poor Carolina'
Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Ekrich examines the reasons for eighteenth-century North Carolina's political factionalism, social violence, and governmental paralysis. Especially disruptive were the opening of new areas of settlement and the influx of migrant groups with high material hopes, particularly since the colony's economy...