The Early American Republic
A Documentary Reader
Edited by: Sean Patrick Adams (University of Florida)
Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
Description
With voices ranging from those of presidents to slaves, from both men and women, and from Native Americans and white settlers, this book tells the story of the first half-century of the United States.
• Provides students with over 50 essential documents from the Early Republic: the first five decades of the USA
• Includes lesser-known documents, for example Thomas Jefferson's rules for 'republican etiquette'
• Incorporates eyewitness testimony from major historical figures, alongside that of ordinary people from the period
• Includes an introduction, document headnotes and questions at the end of each chapter designed to encourage students to engage with the material critically
About the Author
Sean Patrick Adams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, where he teaches courses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History. He is the author of numerous publications, most notably Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (2004).
Paperback
Status: Forthcoming
ISBN: 9781405160988
ISBN10: 1405160985
Hardback
Status: Forthcoming
ISBN: 9781405160971
ISBN10: 1405160977
Publication Dates
USA: Sep 2008
Rest of World: Aug 2008
Australia: Oct 2008
Format
229 x 152 mm , 6 x 9 in
Details
240 pages, 4 illustrations.
A Companion to American Cultural History
Edited by: Karen Halttunen (University of Southern California)
Series: Blackwell Companions to American History
Description
A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.
• 30 essays explore the history of American 'culture' at all analytic levels
• Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field
• Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series
• Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Karen Halttunen
Detailed contents
About the Author
Karen Halttunen is Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Southern California, and former president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 and Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination.
US / Canada
$174.95
ISBN: 9780631235668
ISBN10: 0631235663
USA: Feb 2008
Format
244 x 172 mm , 6.75 x 9.75 in
Details
600 pages, 20 illustrations.
The Colonial Era
By: PAUL CLEMENS (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey)
Series:Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
Description
Comprehensive and accessible, this first title in the series “Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History” offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history.
• Short headnotes introduce each selection
• Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research
• Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text
Paul G. E. Clemens has taught colonial history at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, for more than thirty years. He is the author of The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore (1980), awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society for the best book on the history of the United States, Canada, or Latin America; and coauthor of Land Use in Early New Jersey (1995).
Paperback US / Canada
$29.95
ISBN: 9781405156622
ISBN10: 1405156627
Hardback
US / Canada
$69.95
ISBN: 9781405156615
ISBN10: 1405156619
Publication Dates
USA: Aug 2007
Format
229 x 152 mm , 6 x 9 in
Details
256 pages, 35 illustrations.
A Companion to the History of the Book
Edited by: Simon Eliot (University of London) and JONATHAN ROSE (Drew University)
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Description
From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Blackwell Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book.
• Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts
• Written by a group of expert contributors
• Covers topical debates, such as the nature of authorship and the future of the book
Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book in the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies. He is General Editor of the new multi-volume History of Oxford University Press and editor of the journal Publishing History. His publications include Some Patterns and Trends in British Publishing 1800-1919 and Literary Cultures and the Material Book. He was president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) between 1997-2001.
Jonathan Rose is Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and is co-editor of the journal Book History. His publications include The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), and British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1965 (1991).
Hardback
US / Canada
$149.95
ISBN: 9781405127653
ISBN10: 1405127651
Publication Dates
USA: May 2007
246 x 171 mm , 6.75 x 9.75 in
Details
512 pages, 23 illustrations.
A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America
Edited By:
IVY SCHWEITZER, Dartmouth College
SUSAN CASTILLO, Glasgow University
This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing.
*Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation.
*Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during the early centuries of exploration.
*Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing.
*Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
*Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer's 'The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology' (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
List of illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Susan Castillo (Glasgow University) and Ivy Schweitzer (Dartmouth College)
Detailed Contents
About the Authors
Susan Castillo is John Nichol Professor of American Literature at Glasgow University. Her books include Notes from the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature and Culture (1995), Engendering Identities (1996) and Native American Women in Literature and Culture (1997, with Victor Da Rosa).
Ivy Schweitzer is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and teaches in the Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Programs. She is the author of The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (1991).
Together, they are also the editors of The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
Hardback 1405112913
$99.95
Americas/Canada
£85.00
Publication Dates:
USA: Sep 2005
Format: 246 x 171mm, 6.75 x 9.75in
Illustrations: 25
Pages: 576
May 13, 2008