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  • The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania

    A Varied People

    by Judith A. Ridner ...
    The Scots Irish were one of early Pennsylvania’s largest non-English immigrant groups. They were stereotyped as frontier ruffians and Indian haters. In The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania, historian Judith Ridner insists that this immigrant group was socio-economically diverse. Servants and free people, individuals and families, and political exiles and refugees from Ulster, they not only ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Albion's Seed:Four British Folkways in America

    Four British Folkways in America

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Series series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • How the Irish Became White

    by Noel Ignatiev ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    '…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, AmherstThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Read more

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  • Empire and Nation

    The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

    by Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf ...
    Series series Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World
    A look at America's revolution in the context of the larger British empire: "Many interesting essays . . . a valuable scholarly contribution." — Journal of Colonialism and Colonial HistoryHow did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? And what was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and ... Read more

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  • "Myne Owne Ground"

    Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

    by T. H. Breen, Stephen Innes ...
    Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the ... Read more

    $34.69 USD

  • Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

    Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820

    by Trevor Burnard ...
    Series series American Beginnings, 1500–1900
    As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because—to speak bluntly—it worked. These ... Read more

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  • The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution

    by Glyndwr Williams ...
    First Published in 1980. The dynamism within the American colonies in the fifty years or so before the outbreak of the crisis of the 1760s that was to lead to the Revolution has never been in doubt. The articles written included in this text suggest a number of ways in which the ‘imperial factor’ was of real importance in colonial life and show that there was dynamism on the British side as well ... Read more

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  • The Scotch-Irish

    A Social History

    by James G. Leyburn ...
    Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Children of Uncertain Fortune

    Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833

    by Daniel Livesay ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • From Resistance to Revolution

    by Pauline Maier ...
    Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence from 1765 to 1776 and examines the role of popular violence as political allegiances corroded and once-loyal subjects were gradually transformed into ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement

    by Gelien Matthews ...
    Series series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
    In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery agitation and slave ... Read more

    $18.99 USD