Cambridge University Press

A History of the Book in America
Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

Amory, Hugh and Hall, David D. (eds.)

A History of the Book in America is a five-volume,
interdisciplinary series that offers a collborative history of the
book in American culture from the earliest days of European
settlement to our own days. Its creation is a principal activity of
the American Antiquarian Society. Volume 1, The Colonial Book
in the Atlantic World is organized around three major themes:
the persisting colonial relationship between European
settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a
pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from
booksellers; and the transition from a "culture of the Word" to
the culture of republicanism. The volume also describes nascent
forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of
manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by
Europeans to introduce written literacy to Native Americans and
African Americans.


SUBJECT:
American literature
December 1999
662 Pages
53 halftones, 16 line diagrams, 2 tables

Hardback
0-521-48256-9
$130.00

British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600?1800.

Colin Kidd.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp viii, 302. $59.95.

Colonial Writing and the New World 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire

Thomas J. Scanlan

Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. Unlike most other studies of the subject, it suggests that colonialism is best understood as a phenomenon that had profound significance for people on both sides of the Atlantic.

CONTENTS

Preface; 1. The allegorical structure of colonial desire; 2. Fear and love: two versions of Protestant ambivalence; 3. Forging the nation: the Irish problem; 4. Preaching the nation; 5. Love and shame: Roger Williams and A Key into the Language of America; 6. Fear and self-loathing: John Eliot's Indian Dialogues; Coda; Index.

August 1999
260 Pages
11 halftones

Hardback
0-521-64305-8
$59.95

Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

Volume III: South America, Part 1 and 2

Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz, eds.

This is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected are also discussed. The volume's emphasis is on self-perceptions of the indigenous peoples of South America at various times and under differing situations.

Subject: anthropology

1999        6 x 9        c. 1680 pp.        7 halftones 12 maps

2 Vol. Hardback Set  

0-521-33393-8        $150.00*

A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816

Claudio Saunt

Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. As the Creeks amassed a fortune in cattle and slaves, new property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New Order of Things is the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless.

CONTENTS

POWER AND PROPRIETY BEFORE THE NEW ORDER, 1733-1783; 1; Fair Persuasions: Power among the Creeks; 2; "Martial virtue, and not riches": The Creek Relationship to Property; THE THE NEW ORDER EMERGES, 1784-1796; 3; Alexander McGillivray: Mestizo yet Indian; 4; Forging a Social Compact; 5; Blacks in Creek Country; THE "PLAN OF CIVILIZATION," 1797-1811; 6; New Roles for Women and Warriors; 7; Creating a Country of Laws and Property; 8; The Power of Writing; 9; The Hungry Years; THE NEW ORDER CHALLENGED, 1812-1816; 10; Seminole Resistance; 11; The Redstick War; 12; The Negro Fort

Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History

August 1999
288 Pages
4 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table

Hardback
0-521-66043-2
$49.95

Facing the "King of Terrors"

Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990

Robert V. Wells

Death, a topic often neglected by historians, is in this book given the attention it deserves as one of the most important aspects of personal and societal experience. Facing the "King of Terrors" examines changes in the roles and perceptions of death in one American community, Schenectady, New York, from 1750 to 1990. It combines an in-depth look at patterns of death in society as a whole with an
investigation of personal responses to such cultural customs.


CONTENTS

1; Meeting the "King of Terrors"; 2; Death in the Colonial Village; 3; Thy Death: 1800-1850; 4; To Speak of Death: Culture and the Individual; 5; The Era of the Civil War; 6; "But the Weaver Knows the Threads": Perspectives on the Civil War; 7; The
Great Transition: 1870-1950; 8; To Speak of Death: Searching for a New Vocabulary; 9; A Vicarious Intimacy with Death: 1950 to the Present

SUBJECT:

American history (general)

December 1999
304 Pages
32 halftones, 9 line diagrams, 4 maps,
11 tables

Hardback
0-521-63319-2
$44.95

March 15, 2001