Omohundro Institute And University Of North Carolina Press: 169 books
The Practice of Piety
Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A moving and vivid account of what it meant to be a Puritan, this account draws on diaries, spiritual biographies, and devotional manuals to explore the daily and weekly ritual and discipline. The devotional movement was at the heart of Puritanism, and the spiritual pilgrimage was the soul's progress...
by John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands,...
Freedom's Debt
The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds...
Farmers and Fishermen
Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe...
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise
Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath,...
Early American Technology
Making and Doing Things From the Colonial Era to 1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and...
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture.
Walsh focuses on...
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth...
The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century
A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Since its original publication in 1975, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century has become an important teaching tool and research volume. Warren Billings brings together more than 200 period documents, organized topically, with each chapter introduced by an interpretive essay. Topics include...
by Gordon S. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.--New York Times Book Review
"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history...
For God, King, and People
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within...
Captives and Cousins
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.
Indigenous...
Columbia Rising
Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper...
A Harmony of the Spirits
Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly...