Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press imprint: 169 books
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This American classic is the only full-length book written and published by Thomas Jefferson during his lifetime. Written in 1781, Notes on the State of Virginia was begun by Jefferson as a commentary on the resources and institutions of his home state, but the work's lasting value lies in its delineation...
The Quest for Power
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern 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,...
A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves...
Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas
Empires, Texts, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
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 collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary...
Colonial South Carolina
A Political History, 1663-1763
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
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."
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary...
The Glorious Revolution in America
Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 created a major crisis among the British colonies in America. Following news of the English Revolution, a series of rebellions and insurrections erupted in colonial America from Massachusetts to Carolina. Although the upheavals of 1689 were sparked by local grievances,...
The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution
The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution gives shape to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. It is set forth by one of the most extraordinary men who ever sought...
Contact Points
American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas...
Unification of a Slave State
The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book describes the turbulent transformation of South Carolina from a colony rent by sectional conflict into a state dominated by the South's most unified and politically powerful planter leadership. Rachel Klein unravels the sources of conflict and growing unity, showing how a deep commitment...
Ireland in the Virginian Sea
Colonialism in the British Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting...
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
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...
The Governor and the Rebel
A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
These eight original essays by a group of America's most distinguished scholars include the following themes: the meaning and significance of the Revolution; the long-term, underlying causes of the war; violence and the Revolution; the military conflict; politics in the Continental Congress; the role...