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  • Forming American Politics

    Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania

    by Alan Tully ...
    Originally published in 1994. In this pathbreaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history—New York and Pennsylvania, the rich and varied colonies at the ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America

    Edited by Robert Olwell, Alan Tully ...
    Series series Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World
    Never truly a "new world" entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and their desire to perpetuate old world traditions or to imitate the charismatic model of the British establishment. In the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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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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  • The Ruling Race

    by James Oakes ...
    This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they ... Read more

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  • Generations of Captivity

    A History of African-American Slaves

    by Ira Berlin ...
    Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later.Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

    by Eric Foner ...
    Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery movement; and a final group of essays treats land and labor after the war. Taken together, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Emancipating New York

    The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827

    by David N. Gellman ...
    Series series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
    An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David N. Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism during the final decades of the eighteenth century as they grappled with the possibility of freeing the state's black ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Pursuits of Happiness

    The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial British American history.Greene argues that the New England declension model traditionally ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton

    The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father

    by Douglas Ambrose, Robert W. T. Martin ...
    This anthology presents a variety of scholarly perspectives on the nation's most enigmatic Founding Father.Revolutionary War officer, co-author of the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury Secretary, Thomas Jefferson's nemesis, and victim of a fatal duel with Aaron Burr: Alexander Hamilton's legacy is complex, multifaceted, and difficult to pin down. On the one hand, Hamilton was the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution

    Edited by Edward G. Gray, Jane Kamensky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of colonial North America and their extraordinary struggles before, during, and after the eight-year ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • The World of the Revolutionary American Republic

    Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent

    Edited by Andrew Shankman ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the period from the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War, as struggles over who would control land and labor were waged across the North American continent. The World of the Revolutionary American Republic brings together original essays from an array of ... Read more

    $350.99 CAD

  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD