Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of t...
Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America’s first abolition movement. In show...
In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on the...
This illustrated story of America's first architect is based on material from a number of contemp...
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation...
Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal tra...
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial soc...
At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous...
James Wilson, signer of the federal constitution and one of the most influential leaders in the f...
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colo...
These eight original essays by a group of America's most distinguished scholars include the follo...
Hall has made the first detailed investigation of Polly Baker. It leads through the exciting worl...
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the ag...
This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to Ame...
This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding...
This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of ...
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the...
John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the...
At the close of 1830 John Marshall (1755-1835) had completed his third decade as chief justice of...
Baron Ludwig von Closen-Haydenburg's lively account of his campaigns in America as aide-de-camp t...
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive ...
Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, Watlington ...
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role...
Volume I covers the beginnings of the new government through the first six years of Jefferson's p...
Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-Africa...
This absorbing appraisal of colonial South Carolina political history is developed in three parts...
These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representatio...
In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a pow...
Written in the 1750s by Scottish physician Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding members of the...
Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was gr...
The 'holy experiment' of the Quakers involved political hegemony and economic wealth. Gradually t...
In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a ...
Although it is obvious that politics, money, and economic conditions were closely interrelated in...
George Mason was the oldest of that brilliant group of gentlemen radicals from Virginia who provi...
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languag...
A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the s...
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to Ne...
This distinguished study brings to light and interprets thoughtfully a vast fund of information o...
Edited by the late Philip L. Barbour, acknowledged as the leading authority on Captain John Smith...
In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, ...
George Croghan--land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent--was a man of fascinat...
Tench Coxe participated in or commented on most of the major events in American history from the ...
In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France's Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Ma...
In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen ...
Through an intensive study of party origins in the state of New York, this volume reexamines and ...
This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major character...
In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the In...
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress o...