Early American Studies
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
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The Driver’s Story
Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825862
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
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...
The Creole Archipelago
Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826159
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
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,...
Black Elders
The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom
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...
Occupied America
British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825480
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday experience of ordinary people living under military occupation during the American Revolution. Focusing on day-to-day life in port cities...
A Not-So-New World
Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
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...
Speculation Nation
Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824483
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
432 Pages
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...
A Constitutional Culture
New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire
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...
Boundaries of Belonging
English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–1715
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,...
The Early Imperial Republic
From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War
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...
Undoing Slavery
Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512823271
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the...
The Driver’s Story
Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825862
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
The Creole Archipelago
Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826159
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Black Elders
The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825664
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Occupied America
British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825480
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
A Not-So-New World
Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512825497
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Speculation Nation
Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824483
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
432 Pages
A Constitutional Culture
New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823974
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Boundaries of Belonging
English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–1715
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824018
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
The Early Imperial Republic
From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812252781
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Undoing Slavery
Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512823271
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages