Exploring neglected aspects of our colonial, revolutionary, and early national history and culture, Early American Studies reinterprets familiar themes and events in fresh ways. Interdisciplinary in character, and with a special emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region from about 1600 to 1850, the series is published in partnership with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Series Editors:
Kathleen M. Brown
David Boies Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Roquinaldo Ferreira
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Emma Hart
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania and The Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Daniel K. Richter
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
Michelle Craig McDonald
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827552
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic worldCoffee is among the most common goods traded and consumed worldwide, and so omnipresent its popularity...
A fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf SouthIn The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many...
Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South
Bradley J. Dixon
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512826425
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English lawA sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic...
Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalismAs the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked...
An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England
Gloria McCahon Whiting
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824490
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slaveryAs winter turned to spring in the year 1699, Sebastian and Jane embarked on a campaign of persuasion....
Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512826319
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
416 Pages
Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northernersThe Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the...
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor...
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,...
The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom
Frederick Knight
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825664
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her renowned autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave...
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...
