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  • A New World of Labor

    The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Freedom Seekers

    Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Winner of the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award, and joint winner of the prestigious 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A New World of Labor

    The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World

    by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff, Jerry Weinberger, Lorraine Smith Pangle, Michael Zuckerman ...
    This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Embodied History

    The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts of the bodies that appeared in runaway advertisements and in seafaring, almshouse, prison, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Embodied History

    The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts of the bodies that appeared in runaway advertisements and in seafaring, almshouse, prison, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions

    Edited by Simon P. Newman, Peter S. Onuf ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army, his publication of The American Crisis (1776–83), and his work with Pennsylvania’s revolutionary government consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost radicals of the Revolution. Thereafter, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Parades and the Politics of the Street

    Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able to play a significant role in forging the political culture of the young nation. The creation of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Parades and the Politics of the Street

    Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

    by Simon P. Newman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able to play a significant role in forging the political culture of the young nation. The creation of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    From the author of King Leopold's Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men—a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery—came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another ... Read more

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  • Albion's Seed

    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

  • Between Two Worlds

    How the English Became Americans

    by Malcolm Gaskill ...
    In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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