University of North Carolina Press

Preface by Donald Fleming

Though we most often think of Thomas Jefferson as president and statesman, he is also recognized, in the words of the late Dumas Malone, "as an American pioneer in numerous branches of science, notably paleontology, ethnology, geography, and botany." In this fascinating book, Silvio Bedini explores his wide-ranging mathematical and scientific pursuits.

Taught surveying by his map-making father, Jefferson developed an interest in measurement and observation at an early age. He was captivated not only by the topography around him, but also by the stars and planets in the heavens above and by the minerals, fossils, artifacts, and plants in the soil below. Known internationally as a man of learning and as the long-serving president of the American Philosophical Society, Jefferson read widely, corresponded with other science enthusiasts worldwide, promoted scientific exploration--most notably, the Lewis and Clark expedition--and performed his own diverse experiments. Painting a broad picture of Jefferson as scientist, this book offers a captivating new look at one of America's great Renaissance men. About the author

Silvio A. Bedini is Historian Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and has written extensively on the history of science and technology. Well known for his classic Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science, he also organized the 1981 exhibition "Thomas Jefferson and Science" at the National Museum of American History.

Series: Monticello Monograph Series, Distributed for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation

Approx. 136 pp., 7 x 10, 50 illus., notes, bibl., index $14.95 paper
ISBN 1-882886-19-4
Published
Fall/Winter 2002

by Anne M. Boylan

Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectrum of early nineteenth-century women's groups--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish; African American and white; middle and working class--to illuminate the ways in which race, religion, and class could bring women together in pursuit of common goals or drive them apart.

Boylan interweaves analyses of more than seventy organizations in New York and Boston with the stories of the women who founded and led them. In so doing, she provides a new understanding of how these groups actually worked and how women's associations, especially those with evangelical Protestant leanings, helped define the gender system of the new republic. She also demonstrates as never before how women in leadership positions combined volunteer work with their family responsibilities, how they raised and invested the money their organizations needed, and how they gained and used political influence in an era when women's citizenship rights were tightly circumscribed.

About the author
Anne M. Boylan is professor of history and women's studies at the University of Delaware. She is author of Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880.

360 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 15 illus., 15 tables, appends., notes, index
$49.95 cloth
ISBN 0-8078-2730-4
$19.95 paper
ISBN 0-8078-5404-2
Published
Fall/Winter 2002

by Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the political, religious, and communal cultures of southern life. Through the lens of this hostile environment, Thomas Buckley explores with sympathy the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it.
Based on research in almost 500 divorce files, The Great Catastrophe of My Life involves a wide cross-section of Virginians. Their stories expose southern attitudes and practices involving a spectrum of issues from marriage and family life to gender relations, interracial sex, adultery, desertion, and domestic violence. Although the oppressive legal regime these husbands and wives battled has passed away, the emotions behind their efforts to dissolve the bonds of marriage still resonate strongly.

About the author
Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., is professor of American religious history at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Theological Union. He is editor of If You Love That Lady Don't Marry Her: The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856.

360 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 12 illus., 4 tables, 1 genealogical chart, appends., notes, bibl., index
$59.95 cloth
ISBN 0-8078-2712-6
$19.95 paper
ISBN 0-8078-5380-1
Published
Fall/Winter 2002

by Andrew Burstein

Preface by Peter S. Onuf

"The letters of a person . . . form the only full and genuine journal of his life," wrote Thomas Jefferson, whose own correspondence approached nearly 20,000 letters. Andrew Burstein invites readers to rediscover Jefferson through an exploration of his most enduring public and private writings.

Among the public documents examined are two of Jefferson's best-known contributions to American history, the Declaration of Independence and his first inaugural address. On a more personal level, we read the written dialogue between Jefferson and his dying wife, Martha, as well as tender letters written to his daughters and grandson. Also included are thought-provoking letters written to friends and fellow thinkers, highlighted by extracts from the famous correspondence between the aging Jefferson and John Adams. Burstein's lively analysis confirms Jefferson as a writer of both style and substance. In his letters, we see a writer whose words at once convey the eighteenth-century world in which he lived and yet still speak to the modern world with powerful relevance and wisdom.

Andrew Burstein is the Mary Frances Barnard Professor of History at the University of Tulsa. His books include The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist and Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image. He was featured in the Ken Burns production Thomas Jefferson, first aired on PBS in 1997. About the author

Andrew Burstein is the Mary Frances Barnard Professor of History at the University of Tulsa. His books include The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist and Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image. He was featured in the Ken Burns production Thomas Jefferson, first aired on PBS in 1997.

Approx. 96 pp., 7 x 10, 16 illus., notes, index $13.95 paper
ISBN 1-882886-20-8
Published
Fall/Winter 2002

by Gladys-Marie Fry

With a New Preface by the Author

This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally published in 1989, Stitched from the Soul was the first book to examine the history of quilting in the enslaved community and to place slave-made quilts into historical and cultural context. It remains a beautiful and moving tribute to an African American tradition.

Undertaking a national search to locate slave-crafted textiles, Gladys-Marie Fry uncovered a treasure trove of pieces. The 123 color and black and white photographs featured here highlight many of the finest and most interesting examples of the quilts, woven coverlets, counterpanes, rag rugs, and crocheted artifacts attributed to slave women and men. In a new preface, Fry reflects on the inspiration behind her original research--the desire to learn more about her enslaved great-great-grandmother, a skilled seamstress--and on the deep and often emotional chords the book has struck among readers bonded by an interest in African American artistry. About the author

Gladys-Marie Fry is Professor Emerita of Folklore and English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She has also curated more than a dozen exhibitions at institutions such as the American Folk Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Her books and exhibition catalogs include Night Riders in Black Folk History, Man Made: African American Men and Quilting Traditions, and Black Folk Art in Cleveland.

112 pp., 81/2 x 11, 73 color and 50 b&w illus., notes, bibl. $27.50 paper
ISBN 0-8078-4995-2
Published
Fall/Winter 2002

by Mary Kelley

With a New Preface by the Author

In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother.

Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of Private Woman, Public Stage and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance.

About the author
Mary Kelley is a Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Among her most recent books are The Portable Margaret Fuller and The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

432 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, notes, bibl., index $19.95 paper
ISBN 0-8078-5422-0
Published
Fall/Winter 2002

by John Marshall

Edited by Charles F. Hobson

At the close of 1830 John Marshall (1755-1835) had completed his third decade as chief justice of the United States. The preceding four years had been among the busiest of his long and active life. Between April 1827 and December 1830, Chief Justice Marshall delivered numerous circuit court opinions as well as six Supreme Court opinions that addressed issues of constitutional law. His travels on judicial business regularly took him from his Richmond home to Washington and to Raleigh. Marshall attended a convention on internal improvements in Charlottesville in July 1828, and he served as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in Richmond from October 1829 to mid-January 1830.

Continuing the acclaimed annotated edition of the papers of John Marshall, this volume sheds light not only on the great statesman and jurist's life and thought but on the evolution of American jurisprudence as well.

480 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 10 illus., appends., notes, index
$70.00 cloth
ISBN 0-8078-2748-7 Published
Fall/Winter 2002

Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings

by John Michael Vlach

Although nineteenth-century American landscapes typically were painted from a high vantage point, looking down from above, southern landscapes that featured plantations diverged from this convention in telling ways. Portraits of planters' landholdings were often depicted from a point below the plantation house, a perspective that directs the viewer's gaze upward and, as John Vlach observes, echoes the deference and respect the planter class assumed was its due. Moreover, Vlach notes, slaves were rarely represented in plantation paintings made before the Civil War, although it was slave labor that powered the plantation system. After the war and the abolition of slavery, he argues, a wistful revisionism seems to have restored these people — still toiling in the service of the masters — to the landscapes they had created and on which they were so cruelly mistreated.

This richly illustrated book explores the statements of power and ironic evasions encoded in plantation landscapes, focusing on six artists whose collective body of work spans the period between 1800 and 1935 and documents plantations across the South, from Maryland to Louisiana: Francis Guy, Charles Fraser, Adrien Persac, Currier & Ives chief artist Fanny Palmer, William Aiken Walker, and Alice Ravenel Huger Smith.

About the author
John Michael Vlach is professor of American studies and anthropology at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His previous books include Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery and Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art.

Series: The Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts

240 pp., 8 x 10, 12 color and 110 b&w illus., notes, index

$49.95 cloth
ISBN 0-8078-2686-3

$24.95 paper
ISBN 0-8078-5352-6

Published
Spring/Summer 2002

Forthcoming titles

The Devil and Doctor Dwight
Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic
by Colin Wells

Publication: Spring 2002 Please do not order in advance of publication.

Captives and Cousins
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
by James F. Brooks

Publication: Spring 2002 Please do not order in advance of publication.

For ordering information, call
1-800-848-6224 or fax 1-800-272-6817. Please note that these books can be only purchased through
UNC Press and not through the Institute.

Imagining New England
Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century

by Joseph A. Conforti
 

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region — the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination.

This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.

About the author
Joseph A. Conforti is professor of American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. His previous books include Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture.
400 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 40 illus., 1 table, notes, index

$49.95 cloth
ISBN 0-8078-2625-1

$19.95 paper
ISBN 0-8078-4937-5
Published
Fall/Winter 2001

The Correspondence of John Cotton
ed. Sargent Bush, Jr.

Publication: Spring 2001
Please do not order in advance of publication.

Dear Papa, Dear Charley
The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of
Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations
on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery,
and the Politics of Revolutionary America

ed. Ronald Hoffman, Sally D. Mason, and Eleanor S. Darcy

Publication: Fall 2001
Please do not order in advance of publication.

Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America

by Sandra M. Gustafson

Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy
Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the
multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and
the early republic from colonization through 1800. She demonstrates that, in the American crucible
of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular
significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word.

Gustafson develops what she calls the performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for
comprehending the rich traditions of early American oratory. Embodied in the delivery of speeches,
she argues, were complex projections of power and authenticity that were rooted in or challenged
text-based claims of authority. Examining oratorical performances as varied as treaty negotiations
between native and British Americans, the eloquence of evangelical women during the Great
Awakening, and the founding fathers' debates over the Constitution, Gustafson explores how
orators employed the shifting symbolism of speech and text to imbue their voices with power.

Praise for Eloquence Is Power

"Gustafson's dramatic work convincingly and brilliantly shows how black, white, and Native American figures used
the spoken word to challenge social hierarchies built on textual discipline. This is a major book on the dialogue of
the semiotics of speech and that of text or print culture. It will be used constantly by scholars in multiple
disciplines."--Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University

"Gustafson not only provides a new context for thinking about the verbal performances of prominent patriarchs like
Cotton, Edwards, and Adams, but beautifully realizes the subversive potential of oral performance for outsiders like
Sarah Edwards and Samson Occom."--Janice Knight, University of Chicago

"Sandra Gustafson's Eloquence Is Power is a remarkable achievement. Her learned, closely observed analyses of
oratorical performances . . . invite scholars to reassess the emphasis we have placed on written texts in early
American civic culture."--Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut

Sandra M. Gustafson is associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
Virginia

History/United States: Colonial, Revolutionary Era, & Early American; American Studies;
Literature/Literary Criticism: American; Women's Studies/Gender Studies

UNC Press | http://uncpress.unc.edu/ | Toll-free (800) 848-6224

Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 by the University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.

320 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 18 illus., append., notes, index

$39.95 cloth ISBN 0-8078-2575-1
$17.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-4888-3

2000

Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775

by Rebecca Larson

More than a thousand Quaker female ministers were active in the Anglo-American world before the
Revolutionary War, when the Society of Friends constituted the colonies' third-largest religious
group. Some of these women circulated throughout British North America; others crossed the
Atlantic to deliver their inspired messages. In this public role, they preached in courthouses, meeting
houses, and private homes, to audiences of men and women, to Quakers and to those of other faiths,
to Native Americans and to slaves.

Utilizing the Quakers' rich archival sources, as well as colonial newspapers and diaries, Rebecca
Larson reconstructs the activities of these women. She offers striking insights into the ways their
public, authoritative role affected the formation of their identities, their families, and their society.
Extensively researched and compellingly written, Daughters of Light enriches our understanding
of religion and women's lives in colonial America.


Praise for Daughters of Light

“Rebecca Larson offers a deeper and more daring probe into colonial religious life. To recover the long-obscured lives
of Quaker women preachers, Larson ventures far beyond print sources into a diverse array of previously untapped
manuscript letters, diaries, journals, and church records from many archives in both Great Britain and the United
States. From new sources, she documents ordinary people with extraordinary experiences to reveal eighteenth-century
spirituality from a provocative new angle.”--New Republic

“Daughters of Light is a sustained act of historical recovery. . . . [Larson] has given us the stories of thousands of
women whose words and courageous deportment forced large numbers of British North Americans to admit female
competence.”--Women’s Review of Books

"Larson has written the first comprehensive account of the role of 18th-century Quaker women ministers. . . .
Daughters of Light will also be useful for scholars of women's history because it shows how itinerant women
ministers created a visible public role, exercising authority within and outside the Quaker meeting."--Choice

“Daughters of Light should be required reading for everyone engaged by present-day debates about whether the clergy
should be open to women.”--Philadelphia Inquirer

“Wonderfully researched and written. . . . One of the best books ever on women and Quakerism.”--Kirkus Reviews

“With grace and insight . . . Larson brings to light a story too long left in the shadows of Colonial American and
religious history. . . . [She] has resurrected these remarkable women and makes us rethink basic assumptions about
women and religious tolerance in Colonial America. Larson is our own ‘daughter of light’ in giving us so rich a
history.”--Library Journal

“[Larson] provides a welcome corrective to popular historical accounts that underestimate the roles of women and
religious diversity in early American history.”--Booklist

“No other historian has so movingly captured the lives of 18th-century Quaker female preachers. . . . Daughters of
Light is a thoughtful, beautifully written book that bursts with stories of unforgettable women.”--Catherine
Brekus, author of Strangers and Pilgrims

“A remarkable portrait. . . . This fascinating book will generate a new and more complex understanding of the place
of women in colonial American history.”--Drew Gilpin Faust, author of Mothers of Invention

“A highly readable story of the remarkable lives of travelling Quaker women ministers whose faith and fortitude took
them regularly throughout the American colonies and back and forth to England and beyond. If one marvels at the
family management of soccer moms, this is an eye-opening account of how it all worked in the 1700s.”--Robert
Lawrence Smith, author of A Quaker Book of Wisdom

“An exceptionally rewarding book . . . Rebecca Larson tells the story with insight, exemplary research, and vivid
prose.”--Jon Butler, author of Awash In a Sea of Faith


Rebecca Larson is a historian who lives in Santa Barbara, California.

416 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 16 illus., 2 maps, 1 fig., appends., notes, index


$17.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-4897-2

2000

From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers

by Allan Kulikoff

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development
of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers
and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement,
analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society.

Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the
immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its
Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those
farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that
without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most
important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the
war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar
prosperity.


Praise for From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers

A sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy of Britain's American
colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their wives, children, servants, and slaves, Kulikoff tells the story of
immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of market relations among settlers,
and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society.

"This is an important book, with the inestimable value of being a useful book. In an arresting and original
conceptualization, Allan Kulikoff focuses upon the farm household as both the characteristic unit of settlement and
the fondest aspiration of settlers throughout the American colonies. Weaving together disparate threads of historical
experience and analysis, he fashions a compelling and coherent picture of the main patterns of colonial development,
culminating in a fresh view of the American Revolution as a fierce and violent war. His emphasis upon the
singularly important role of small families provides a valuable foundation and context for any understanding of
colonial political, economic, and religious developments, as well as relations with Native Americans and African
slaves."--Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University


Allan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. His previous
books include Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake,
1680-1800.


504 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index

$59.95 cloth ISBN 0-8078-2569-7
$22.50 paper ISBN 0-8078-4882-4

This book is not yet released, but may be ordered now.
Copies will be released shortly before 11/13/2000.

2000

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

by Eliga H. Gould

Winner of the 1993 Jamestown Prize, Institute of Early American History and Culture

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's
most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines
an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's
predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America.

Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors,
including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of
the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British
public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary,
"armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of
military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to
most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all
sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel.

Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs,
and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political
culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the
Atlantic.

Eliga H. Gould is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.

Subjects:

History/United States: Colonial, Revolutionary Era, & Early American
History/British Isles & British Empire
Political Science/Political History/International Affairs

Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
Virginia

Approx. 288 pp., 5
3/4 x 9 1/4, 29 illus., 3 maps, notes, bibl., index 2000

ISBN: 0-8078-2529-8 Cloth $49.95
ISBN: 0-8078-4846-8 Paper $18.95

Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America

Isabelle Lehuu

In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form
of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other
ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to public culture and made the
practice of reading more controversial. For a short yet pivotal period, argues Isabelle Lehuu, the
world of print was turned upside down.

Unlike the printed works of the eighteenth century, produced to educate and refine, the new
media aimed to entertain a widening yet diversified public of men and women. As they gained
popularity among American readers, these new print forms provoked fierce reactions from
cultural arbiters who considered them transgressive. No longer the manly art of intellectual
pursuit, reading took on new meaning; reading for pleasure became an act with the power to
silently disrupt the social order.

Neither just an epilogue to an earlier age of scarce books and genteel culture nor merely a
prologue to the late nineteenth century and its mass culture and commercial literature, the
antebellum era marked a significant passage in the history of books and reading in the United
States, Lehuu argues.

Isabelle Lehuu is associate professor of history at the UniversitÇ du QuÇbec à MontrÇal.

264 pp., 5 3/4 x 9 1/4, 17 illus.,
notes, bibl., index March 2000

ISBN: 0-8078-2521-2 Cloth unjacketed $39.95
ISBN: 0-8078-4832-8 Paper $17.95

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland
A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

by Ronald Hoffman

Charles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of
Independence. In this monumental study of the Carrolls in Ireland and America, that act vindicates a family's
determination to triumph without compromising lineage and faith.

Ronald Hoffman peels back layer after layer of Carroll family history, from dispossession in Ireland to prosperity
and prominence in America. Driven to emigrate by England's devastating anti-Catholic policies, the first Carroll
brought to Maryland an iron determination to reconstitute his family and fortune. He found instead an increasingly
militant Protestant society that ultimately disenfranchised Catholics and threatened their wealth and property.
Confronting religious antagonisms like those that had destroyed their Irish ancestors, this Carroll and his
descendants founded a fortune--and a dynasty that risked everything by allying with the American Revolutionary
cause.

Meeting each crisis with a tenacious will to survive and prevail, the Carrolls earned an esteemed place in the new
nation. Hoffman balances private lives against their contentious public role in American history. The journey from
Irish rebels to successful American revolutionaries shaped and shattered the Carrolls--and then remade them into
one of the first families of the Republic.


Praise for Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland

"Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland tells a powerful and compelling story. . . . It will take its place among the very best of the
intergenerational family histories of colonial and Revolutionary America."--John Murrin, Princeton University

"Ronald Hoffman's extraordinary book is far more than a family biography. It not only frames three generations of Carrolls within the
larger struggles of the Anglo-Irish-American world, but it reveals the human dimensions of Catholic/Protestant conflict on two
continents. . . . That the Carrolls seized their opportunities and eventually converted from outsiders into insiders during the
Revolutionary era is a tribute to them; that Ron Hoffman has told this transatlantic story with such skill is a tribute to him."--Elaine
Forman Crane, Fordham University

"This family saga, chronicling the fall and rise of the Carroll family from the trauma of the Conquests of Ireland to their recovery of full
political status in the American Revolution, is pursued with a vigor and intensity worthy of Thomas Mann. . . . This is a gripping read
and a prime example of Atlantic history at its best."--Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway

"Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland is the most spectacular family saga ever in early American history. It has something for
everyone--the rending brutality of the English conquest of Ireland; the creation of wealth and status in Maryland; the discovery that, for
Catholics like themselves, there is no safety anywhere in the British Empire. . . . The fragility of the aristocratic project has never been
better demonstrated, nor have the terrible human costs of the aristocratic impulse. Yet, ironically, it would be the last of the colonial
Carrolls who would see that aristocrats must give up some of their property and privileges in order to lead Americans into independence.
. . . A marvelous story."--Kenneth A. Lockridge, University of Montana


Ronald Hoffman is director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg,
Virginia, and professor of history at the College of William and Mary. Sally D. Mason is associate editor of the
Charles Carroll of Carrollton Papers.

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

464 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 21 illus., 7 maps, 4 tables, 1 fig., 6 genealogical charts,
append., notes, index

$39.95 cloth ISBN 0-8078-2556-5

Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast

by Lindley S. Butler


North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its
shores have been the scene of some of the most dramatic episodes of piracy and sea warfare in the nation's history.
Now, Lindley Butler brings this fascinating aspect of the state's maritime heritage vividly to life. He offers engaging
biographical portraits of some of the most famous pirates, privateers, and naval raiders to ply the Carolina waters.

Covering 150 years, from the golden age of piracy in the 1700s to the extraordinary transformation of naval warfare
ushered in by the Civil War, Butler sketches the lives of eight intriguing characters: the pirate Blackbeard and his
contemporary Stede Bonnet; privateer Otway Burns and naval raider Johnston Blakeley; and Confederate raiders
James Cooke, John Maffitt, John Taylor Wood, and James Waddell. Penetrating the myths that have surrounded
these legendary figures, he uncovers the compelling true stories of their lives and adventures.

Approx. 296 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 32 illus., 6 maps, notes, bibl., index

$29.95 cloth ISBN 0-8078-2553-0
$15.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-4863-8

The Papers of John Marshall, volume X
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1824-March 1827

Edited by Charles F. Hobson and Susan H. Perdue

This volume continues the acclaimed annotated edition of the papers
of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835), the great statesman and
jurist. The constitutional nationalism of the Marshall Court reached
its peak in 1824 with Gibbons v. Ogden, in which Marshall broadly
expounded the commerce clause while striking down New York's
steamboat monopoly laws. By 1827, however, a crack in the
nationalist consensus revealed itself in Ogden v. Saunders, a
contract case that elicited Marshall's first and only dissent on a
question of constitutional law.

Marshall's active life outside the courtroom included two
longstanding projects: revising his Life of George Washington and
preparing an edition of Washington's correspondence. In his own
correspondence for these years, Marshall comments on such topics
as the causes of the Revolution, the military history of the war, the
social scene in Washington, the abolition of slavery, female education,
and the novels of Jane Austen.

Copyright 2000
Cloth:
ISBN#0-8078-2520-4
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August 13, 2002