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An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a centur...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New ...

Reducere. This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along th...

Reducere. Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly...

Reducere. This American classic is the only full-length book written and published by Thomas Jefferson during his lifetime. Written in 1781, Notes on the Sta...

Reducere. For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between the...

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring ...

Reducere. Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The internationa...

Reducere. Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eightee...

Reducere. Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding p...

Reducere. In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously r...

Reducere. 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 figur...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

DescriptionCharles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In this mon...

Reducere. In this iconoclastic book, Francis Jennings recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. The traditional history of early ...

Reducere. When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of th...

Reducere. Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

Reducere. DescriptionCombining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of ...

Reducere. In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at ...

Reducere. Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America?In the country's founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which ...

Reducere. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonqui...

This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a p...

Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and ...

Reducere. Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

Reducere. Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, ...

Reducere. Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship...

Reducere. In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their na...