Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press: 169 books
The Politics of War
Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
War often unites a society behind a common cause, but the notion of diverse populations all rallying together to fight on the same side disguises the complex social forces that come into play in the midst of perceived unity. Michael A. McDonnell uses the Revolution in Virginia to examine the political...
The Great Awakening
Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. The common disdain in this secular age for impassioned religious emotion and language is merely symptomatic of the...
by Richard L. Bushman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about.
Richard...
Presidents Above Party
The First American Presidency, 1789-1829
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
George Washington's vision was a presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction. That vision would remain strong in the administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, yet largely disappear under Andrew Jackson...
The Other Founders
Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Fear of centralized authority is deeply rooted in American history. The struggle over the U.S. Constitution in 1788 pitted the Federalists, supporters of a stronger central government, against the Anti-Federalists, the champions of a more localist vision of politics. But, argues Saul Cornell, while...
The Geographic Revolution in Early America
Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in...
Laboratories of Virtue
Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic....
Prodigal Daughters
Susanna Rowson's Early American Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity--bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, Charlotte Temple. Yet this best-selling novel has long been perceived as the prime exemplar of female passivity and subjugation...
By Birth or Consent
Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor contracts or be hanged for arson or picking pockets....
by Gideon Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architect James Madison; as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, he was the only...
by Sarah Rivett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the...
Eloquence Is Power
Oratory and Performance in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and the early...
The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance.
Upon its original publication...
The Precisianist Strain
Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist...