Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press: 169 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation of emigrants from England to New England.
This volume collects all known surviving correspondence by and to Cotton. These 125 letters--more...
by David Wheat
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian...
Frontiers of Science
Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often...
Captain John Smith
A Select Edition of His Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colorful writers to visit America in the colonial period. While his first venture was in Virginia, some of his most important work concerned New England and the colonial enterprise as a whole.
The publication in 1986 of Philip Barbour's...
American Baroque
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
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 Baroquecharts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century.
Younger historians and senior scholars...
The Lord Cornbury Scandal
The Politics of Reputation in British America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure, whose alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects by parading through the streets of New York City dressed...
Prospero's America
John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In Prospero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonization's early giants. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten...
Allegories of Encounter
Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native...
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces...
The Long Argument
English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on...
Women of the Republic
Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers,...
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis
Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates...