University of North Carolina Press
Forced Founders
Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American
Revolution in Virginia
by Woody Holton
Copyright
1999 Cloth:
ISBN#0-8078-2501-8
$39.95
Paper:
ISBN#0-8078-4784-4
$15.95
The Other Founders
Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting Tradition in America,
1788-1828
by Saul Cornell
Cloth:
ISBN#0-8078-2503-4
$55.00
Paper:
ISBN#0-8078-4786-0
$19.95, 1999
Domesticating Slavery
The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
by Jeffrey Robert Young
In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates
southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a
defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival
evidence and integrating political, religious, economic,
and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning
culture that cast the southern planter in the role of
benevolent Christian steward--even as slaveholders were brutally
exploiting their slaves for maximum fiscal gain.
Domesticating Slavery offers a surprising answer to the
long-standing question about slaveholders' relationship with
the proliferating capitalistic markets of
early-nineteenth-century America. Whereas previous scholars have
depicted
southern planters either as efficient businessmen who embraced
market economics or as paternalists whose ideals
placed them at odds with the industrializing capitalist society
in the North, Young instead demonstrates how capitalism
and paternalism acted together in unexpected ways to shape
slaveholders' identity as a ruling elite. Beginning with
slaveowners' responses to British imperialism in the colonial
period and ending with the sectional crises of the 1830s,
he traces the rise of a self-consciously southern master class in
the Deep South and the attendant growth of political
tensions that would eventually shatter the union.
352 pp., 53/4 x 91/4,
notes, bibl., index
$49.95 cloth ISBN 0-8078-2490-9
$18.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-4776-3
1999
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
by Richard S. Dunn
First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a
vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean
more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary
primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development
of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar
production techniques, the vicious character of the slave
trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics, and
the appalling mortality rates for both blacks and
whites that made these colonies the richest, but in human terms
the least successful, in English America.
"A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave
society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and
peculiarities."--Journal of Modern History
"A remarkable account of the rise of the planter class in
the West Indies. . . . Dunn's [work] is rich social history,
based on factual data brought to life by his use of contemporary
narrative accounts."--New York Review of Books
"A study of major importance. . . . Dunn not only provides
the most solid and precise account ever written of the
social development of the British West Indies down to 1713, he
also challenges some traditional historical
cliches."--American Historical Review
Praise for Sugar and Slaves
Drawing upon such sources as travelers' accounts, plantation
records, census returns, wills, inventories, land patents, maps,
and parish
registers, Richard Dunn presents a composite portrait of English
life in the Caribbean three centuries ago.
"Dunn's work is a model of contemporary historical research.
He writes with admirable clarity."--London Financial Times
"A remarkable account of the rise of the planter class in
the West Indies. . . . Dunn's is rich social history, based on
factual data brought
to life by his use of contemporary narrative
accounts."--Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books
"Should be necessary reading for those concerned with
slavery and slave societies, as well as colonial development in
the Western
Hemisphere in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor
Dunn has written an excellent book: not only is it informative,
it is
also readable."--Business History Review
"A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave
society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and
peculiarities."--Journal
of Modern History
"[This] elegantly written book is easily the finest on the
subject and a major addition to colonial
scholarship."--Journal of Economic
History
"[Features] lively and well-informed discussions of the West
Indian economy, society, culture, and political organization in
the
seventeenth century."--Elsa V. Goveia, William and Mary
Quarterly
"A study of major importance: the first systematic and
extended account of the emergence and character of an elite group
for any of the
English colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
. . . Dunn not only provides the most solid and precise account
ever
written of the social development of the British West Indies down
to 1713, he also challenges some traditional historical
cliches."--Jack
P. Greene, American Historical Review
Richard S. Dunn is director of the McNeil Center for Early
American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Winner of the 1973 Walter D. Love Memorial Prize, Conference of
British Studies
Winner of the 1972 Jamestown Prize, Institute of Early American
History and Culture
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision
Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers and Margaret Beck Pritchard
Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century.
Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise.
The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.
[for catalog, in place of 3rd paragraph]
The contributors:
David R. Brigham (Worcester Art Museum)
Joyce E. Chaplin (Vanderbilt University)
Mark Laird (University of Toronto)
Amy R. W. Meyers (Huntington Library & Art Collections)
Therese O'Malley (National Gallery of Art)
Margaret Beck Pritchard (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
Amy R. W. Meyers is curator of American art at The Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Margaret Beck Pritchard is curator of prints, maps, and wallpaper at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia.
Subjects:
American Studies History/United States: Colonial, Revolutionary Era, & Early American Architecture/Fine Arts/Photography History/United States: Biography & Autobiography
Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
The University of North Carolina Press
296 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 16 color illus., 42 b&w; illus., notes, append., index
ISBN: 0-8078-2459-3 Cloth $60.00 ISBN: 0-8078-4762-3 Paper $24.95
North Carolina Women: Making History
Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson.
Foreword by Doris Betts.
For generations, books on North Carolina history have included the names of only a few women. But in addition to such well-known and legendary figures as Queen Elizabeth I and Virginia Dare, a multitude of other women influenced the making of North Carolina. These women's stories have rarely been told, in part because their contributions tended to occur in the relative privacy of their families and communities.
This lively and comprehensive volume finally accords North Carolina women their long-awaited place in history. Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson bring together a wealth of materials to demonstrate how North Carolina women lived, from the days of early native settlements to the end of World War II. Filled with names, places, colorful anecdotes, and more than two hundred photographs and documents that bring to life important moments in history, North Carolina Women establishes the critical influence of women in shaping the character and economy of the state and the values of its citizens.
The narratives embedded in women's history, presented chronologically, create an enormous landscape across time--broadly analyzed and meticulously detailed. By considering the particular contours of gender, race, class, religion, and geography, the authors reveal the diversity and complexity of women's lives and experiences. Interspersed throughout the book are biographies of twenty-two North Carolina women, from Cherokee Beloved Woman Nanye'hi and frontierswoman Rebecca Bryan Boone to civil rights scholar and priest Pauli Murray and political activist Gladys Avery Tillett.
Margaret Supplee Smith, professor of art at Wake Forest University, helped establish the university's women's studies program, coordinated the North Carolina Museum of History's Women's History Project, and curated the exhibition that opened the museum's new building in 1994. Emily Herring Wilson, author of Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South, has taught at Wake Forest University, Salem College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Cornell University.
Approx. 414 pp., 81/2 x 11, 12 color and 238 b&w; illus., 1 table, notes, bibl., index April 1999
ISBN: 0-8078-2463-1 Cloth $29.95
Subjects:
Women's Studies/Gender Studies North Carolina Reference History/United States: Southern
The University of North Carolina Press
Winner of the 1995 Ohio Academy of History Book Prize
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of
slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which
has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature
slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay
and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave
population, increasingly bound on large plantations,
included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their
African pasts to make sense of their new world. The
authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages,
naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of
resistance.
Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners
erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This
system
played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal,
political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it
impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and
Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from
slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result,
slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage
and
therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them
from reliance on a worldview and value system determined
by whites.
Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary are professors emeriti of history at the University of Toledo.
Subjects:
African-American/African Studies
History/United States:
Southern
North Carolina
The University of North Carolina Press
420 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 5 illus., 49 tables, 5 maps
ISBN: 0-8078-2197-7 Cloth $45.00
ISBN: 0-8078-4819-0 Paper $22.95
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the
Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of
Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered
by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in
eighteenth-century
America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways.
Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches,
letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles,
Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and
polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of
public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut.
In New England through the first half of the century,
only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After
midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay
orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or
instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the
early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other
voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century,
concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be
understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people
but rather as a civic conversation of the people.
After thirty years in Connecticut, Christopher Grasso
now lives in Northfield, Minnesota, where he is associate
professor
of history at St. Olaf College.
Subjects:
American Studies
History/United States:
General
Series:
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
The University of North Carolina Press
528 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 18 illus., 4 figs., appends., notes, index March 1999
ISBN: 0-8078-2471-2 Cloth $59.95
ISBN: 0-8078-4772-0 Paper $24.95
March 12, 2001