The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State
Stephen Aron
A bold new history of Missouri—the region where the American West begins.
In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south. This is the region that Stephen Aron calls the "American Confluence." His innovative book examines the history of that region—a home to the Osage, a colony exploited by the French, a new frontier explored by Lewis and Clark. Aron focuses on the region¹s transition from a place of overlapping borderlands to one of oppositional Border States. American Confluence is a lively account that should delight amateur and professional historians alike.Stephen Aron is Professor of History at UCLA and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center. He is author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay and co–author of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present. He lives in Los Angeles.
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A History of the Trans–Appalachian Frontier
248 pages, 7 b&w photos, 5 maps, index,
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Forthcoming
cloth 0-253-34691-6
$29.95
Debra A. Meyers
A revisionist approach
to the study of women and religion in colonial Maryland.
Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early
modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions
that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation
years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to the New World, where gender
relations and family formations were largely unhampered by the unsettling political
and religious climate of England. In Maryland, English Arminian Catholics, Particular
Baptists, Presbyterians, Puritans, Quakers, and Roman Catholics lived and worked
together for most of the 17th century. By closely examining thousands of wills
and other personal documents, as well as early Maryland's material culture,
this transatlantic study depicts women's place in society and the ways religious
values and social arrangements shaped their lives. Common Whores, Vertuous Women,
and Loveing Wives takes a revisionist approach to the study of women and religion
in colonial Maryland and adds considerably to our understanding of the social
and cultural importance of religion in early America.
Debra Meyers is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University and co-editor of Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds.
Series: Religion in North AmericaHerman L. Bennett
Now in paperback!
The African community under Spanish and Catholic rule in colonial Mexico.
Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. Africans in Colonial Mexico explores how they learned to make their way in a culture of Spanish and Roman Catholic absolutism by using the legal institutions of church and state to create a semblance of cultural autonomy. From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects. His findings demonstrate the malleable nature of African identities in the Atlantic world, as well as the ability of Africans to deploy their own psychological resources to survive displacement and oppression.
Herman L. Bennett is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University.
Series: Blacks in the Diaspora