Questa serie esplora momenti e conflitti cruciali nella storia del Nord America, radicati nei luoghi specifici in cui si sono svolti gli eventi. Ogni volume approfondisce comunità uniche e le loro esperienze vissute, rivelando come gli sviluppi locali si siano intrecciati con contesti globali più ampi. Unisce magistralmente la sofisticazione accademica con un'enfasi sulle particolarità e le traiettorie locali. Scoprite un viaggio avvincente attraverso la storia, che dà vita al passato attraverso i luoghi stessi in cui è stato plasmato.
The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record.
Independence Day provided an opportunity for a diverse citizenry to share in a nationalistic revelry explicitly promoting political independence and republican government. This title explores how Fourth of July celebrations in the urban Midwest helped to define patriotic nationalism during the nineteenth century.
Focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line. Kristen Epps explores slavery's emergence from an upper South slaveholding culture and its development into a small-scale system.
Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722
The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance marked a significant shift in the dynamics between Native Americans and English settlers in Virginia, establishing a tributary system that defined their interactions. This book explores how the English codified tributary status for allied Native tribes while differentiating them from non-allied groups, examining the implications of these classifications on relationships and power dynamics in the region.