In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social,...
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed...
Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670–1825
Edward Pearson
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512824384
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
520 Pages
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers, Edward Pearson offers a sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War. For enslaved peoples, the shape...
Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Christopher M. Parsons
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512825497
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found...
In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have declined in their historic European strongholds, they have...
New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire
Adrian Chastain Weimer
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823974
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense...
English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–1715
April Lee Hatfield
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824018
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
In the decades following England’s 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claims—to land, maritime spaces, and people. English Jamaica,...
From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War
Edited by Michael A. Blaakman, Emily Conroy-Krutz and Noelani Arista
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812252781
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet from...
Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America
Mairin Odle
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512823165
Pub Date: November 2022
Format: Hardcover
176 Pages
Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial...
