When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain's colonization of North America was a key moment in the market's shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart's book takes in the shops, auction sites,...
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Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America
by Carol Armbruster
This volume presents a comparative framework in which to study the history of publishing and reading in Europe and North America during the eighteenth century. The chapters are written by leading French and American specialists in publishing during the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary eras. The book synthesizes current knowledge in the field and advances scholarship, particularly with respect to copyright legislation. It skillfully integrates the history of publishing during this period with...
John Forbes: Scotland, Flanders and the Seven Years' War, 1707-1759
by John Oliphant
In November 1758 Brigadier General John Forbes's army expelled the French army from Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River. Over seven months Forbes had co-ordinated three obstructive and competitive colonies, managed Indian diplomacy, and cut a road through over a hundred miles of mountain and forest. This is the first full biography of Forbes, which traces his rise from surgeon in the Scots Greys to distinguished service in War of the Austrian Succession before his 1757 posting to Nort...
Under a Colonial Roof-Tree; Fireside Chronicles of Early New England
by Arria S Huntington
In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of “white,” “black,” and “Indian” developed a...
In a major interdisciplinary reinterpretation of first-generation New England cultural formation, Phillip H. Round demonstrates that Puritanism was only one ingredient in the creation of a new American civil society. Examining five discourses at work in the early modern era -- civic order, truth-telling, gender difference, authorship, and ethnicity -- he provides fresh readings of early American writers like William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet, and historical figures like Anne Hutchinson and Th...
The South's Burden, or, the Curse of Sectionalism in the United States
Cultural Encounters in Atlantic History,1500-1825
Encounters among the people of the Atlantic World in the early modern period provide a wide-ranging perspective on nearly all aspects of society. Interactions occurred at many levels - among races, nationalities, and ethnic, regional, religious, and linguistic groups - with influences and modifications that spread in multiple directions, not only from East to West and European to indigenous people. The essays in this volume are designed to suggest the great variety of these cultural encounters a...
Daily Life in the Early American Republic, 1790-1820 (Daily Life Through History)
by David Stephen Heidler and Dr Jeanne T Heidler
The study of American history has become so complex in recent years that readers now often face a choice between a broad survey simplified to the point of distortion and daunting array of specialized studies. The need remains for a lucid overview of the principal events of each period of the nation's history, together with a balanced interpretation of their significance. Benjamin W. Labaree's America's Nation-Time provides such an overview and interpretation for the colonial period.
The Colonial Wars, Prelude to the American Revolution (Abelard Sports Books)
by Don Lawson
Discusses four major colonial wars in North America and the way their outcomes contributed to the causes of the Revolutionary War. Included are King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, and the French and Indian War.
Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers (Debating Historical Issues in the Media of the Time)
by David A Copeland
For every major event or issue of the colonial period, newspapers printed the opinions of the day, in many cases attempting to influence public opinion. Issues such as medical discoveries, education, and censorship are covered in this collection along with important events such as the French and Indian War, the trial of John Peter Zenger, and the Boston Massacre. Each chapter introduces the event or issue and includes news articles, letters, essays, even poetry representing both sides of the arg...
From Whence the Silver, The Role of Money in Colonial America (Traditional American History, #3)
by James M Volo
Wonders of the Yellowstone Region in the Rocky Mountains [microform]
by James 1810-1883 Richardson