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Serie: Early american studies
gebondenEngels312 blz.9780812249866
20-2-2018
The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812217520
1-6-2000
"Through richly detailed accounts of individual entrepreneurs, including the prominent printer-publisher Mathew Carey, Remer reveals the economic logic behind this distinctive book trade. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812221565
23-3-2011
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged. Beyond the Farm blends biography, social history, and cultural history to describe and explain that change. Meer
GebondenEngels9780812248197
30-5-2016
With essays from leading and emerging scholars of Haitian and U.S. history, literature, and cultural studies, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States traces the rich terrain of Haitian-U. Meer
GebondenEngels9780812235807
19-1-2001
How entrepreneurial housebuilders fueled a rapid economy. "A well-written and easily read business book with a historical perspective, quite fit for a general readership interested in the history of American enterprise. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812218220
2-10-2003
During the seven years of British occupation that spanned the American Revolution, communities conventionally depicted as hostile opponents were, in fact, in frequent contact. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812223149
13-10-2014
Leading religious historians connect changes in law and rhetoric to daily cooperation and conflict in early America. These essays examine such topics as Native American spiritual life, the biblical sources of tolerance and intolerance, contemporary philosophies of religious liberty, and the resilience of African American faiths. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812223217
17-10-2014
Historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines religious conversions in the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among the Illinois, Ottawas, and other Algonquian-speaking peoples and the rapidly evolving and always contested colonial context in which they occurred. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812223637
11-5-2016
Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812217650
3-1-2001
"Herndon has painstakingly reconstructed the lives of these most obscure early New Englanders. Meer
GebondenEngels9780812246995
14-4-2015
Empire by Collaboration explores the remarkable collaborative culture of colonial Illinois Country, where settlers, natives, and imperial officials negotiated local and imperial priorities and gave rise to new economies and forms of social life. Meer
GebondenEngels9780812239157
3-3-2006
Connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America. Meer
GebondenEngels9780812239553
26-9-2006
Troubled Experiment exposes the difference between glowing reputation and grim reality of crime in early Pennsylvania. The plight of lawmakers and magistrates, and the sufferings of victims, women, children, and minorities take their places in this tragedy. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812222050
18-5-2012
A Nation of Women provides a history of the significance of gender in Lenape/Delaware encounters with Europeans, and a history of women in these encounters. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812219227
20-11-2007
New World Orders juxtaposes case studies from Brazil to California to New York to explore the wide variety of legal and extralegal means by which social order was maintained in the early Americas. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812221237
3-8-2010
Although differing in their approaches, the contributors to this collection all agree that class remains indispensable to our understanding of the transition from an early modern to modern era in North America and the Atlantic world. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812221336
26-8-2010
Examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the attempts of native peoples to make sense of the newcomers who threatened to transform their world in frightening ways. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812221824
15-8-2011
Bodies of Belief argues that the paradoxical evolution of the Baptist religion, specifically in Pennsylvania and Virginia, was simultaneously egalitarian and hierarchical, democratic and conservative. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812221855
18-8-2011
Catalysts in the birth of evangelicalism, the Moravians supported their religious projects through financial savvy, a distinctive communalism at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and transatlantic commercial networks. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780812221947
1-11-2011
Through a series of engrossing narratives, Death in the New World uses the customs surrounding death among Indians, Africans, and Europeans as a lens through which to examine the cross-cultural interactions in North America and the Caribbean in the three centuries following Columbus. Meer