Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press: 169 books
The Arts in Early American History
Needs and Opportunities for Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colonization to 1826 are primarily intended to aid the scholar and student by suggesting areas of further study and ways of expanding the conventional interpretations of early American history.
Originally...
Final Passages
The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies...
by Mark G. Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by...
A Revolutionary People At War
The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace...
To Live Ancient Lives
The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic...
by Lawrence H. Leder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This is the biography of a wily Scots settler who arrived in New York in 1675 and became one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. His career illustrates the growing breach between English and American approaches to political and administrative problems.
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The Democratic Republicans of New York
The Origins, 1763-1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Through an intensive study of party origins in the state of New York, this volume reexamines and reevaluates the whole of the Democratic Republican movement. It will compel changes in present concepts of anti-Federalist and Republican connections with banking, mercantile, land-speculation, and manufacturing...
by Peter Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by Shaw's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. The account of Adams's twenty-five years of retirement...
Gentleman's Progress
The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This diary of Hamilton's journey through the northern colonies provides an interesting account of the life and times during the colonial period. It is a brilliant account of a typical cultured gentleman of the age and background of his times. As a physician, the diarist views life with a realistic...
Saints and Sectaries
Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This brilliant, dramatic reconstruction of the Puritan mind in action, informed with psychological and sociological insights, provides a fresh understanding of Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and gives her controversy with the Puritan Saints a new dimension...
Meeting House and Counting House
The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The "holy experiment" of the Quakers involved political hegemony and economic wealth. Gradually the Quakers realized that they had become involved in the compromises fatal to the spiritual integrity of the Society of Friends itself. The political crisis of 1756 hastened this realization,...
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.
Moral Capital
Foundations of British Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment...