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Rebellion and Savagery
The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was...
Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States
Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States investigates why some Eastern European states transitioned to new forms of governance with minimal violence while others broke into civil war. In Bulgaria, the Turkish minority was subjected to coerced assimilation and forced expulsion, but the nation...
Disknowledge
Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance...
Creating Human Rights
How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Creating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson...
The Oldest Revolutionary
Essays on Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Benjamin Franklin is the model American of an America that we have created. But if we can go beyond our preconceptions of Franklin and the 1776 and 1976 image of America, we can learn something of the truth, as well as the art, of his writings. The essays in this volume evaluate Franklin as a printer,...
Literature, American Style
The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Between 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly "American" tradition. No one had yet figured out,...
Front Lines
Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship....
Empires of Love
Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the...
Recipes for Thought
Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe...
Machiavelli's Legacy
"The Prince" After Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual...
Christian Slavery
Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave...
by Evan Haefeli
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion."...
Professional Indian
The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he was the Lost Dauphin, second son...
Zamumo's Gifts
Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy...