Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press imprint: 169 books
by Jennifer Van Horn
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to...
Daniel Morgan
Revolutionary Rifleman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Over the vast distances and rough terrain of the Revolutionary War, the tactics that Daniel Morgan had learned in Indian fighting--the thin skirmish line, the stress upon individual marksmanship, the hit-and-run mobility--were an important element of his success as a commander. He combined this success...
This Violent Empire
The Birth of an American National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.
Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg...
Learning to Stand and Speak
Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social...
Love in the Time of Revolution
Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay...
Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside politics. They believed that neither the nation nor...
Forced Founders
Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots...
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that...
A Colony of Citizens
Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s,...
The King's Three Faces
The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break...
Adapting to a New World
English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values,...
Women Before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic...
A Speaking Aristocracy
Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new...
The Devil and Doctor Dwight
Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
At the close of the eighteenth century, Timothy Dwight--poet, clergyman, and, later, president of Yale College--waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of "infidelity." The Devil and Doctor Dwight reexamines this episode by focusing on The Triumph of Infidelity (1788), the...