Oxford University Press

Classic African American Women’s Narratives

Edited by WILLIAM L. ANDREWS

The only one-volume collection of its kind

Classic African American Women’s Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of African American women’s fiction and autobiography during the slavery era in U.S. history. Each text in the volume represents a “first.” Maria Stewart’s Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality (1831) was the first political tract authored by an African American woman. Jarena Lee’s Life and Religious Experience (1836) was the first African American woman’s spiritual autobiography. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) was the first slave narrative to focus on the experience of a female slave in the United States. Frances E. W. Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859) was the first short story published by an African American woman. Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) was the first novel written by an African American woman. Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) was the first autobiography authored by an African American woman. Charlotte Forten’s “Life on the Sea Islands” (1864) was the first contribution by an African American woman to a major American literary magazine (the Atlantic Monthly). Complemented with an introduction by William L. Andrews, this is the only one-volume collection to gather the most important works of the first great era of African American women’s writing.

* Provides complete, authoritative texts

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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El Pueblo: The Historic Heart of Los Angeles

JEAN BRUCE POOLE and TEVVY BALL

http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/pueblo.html

El Pueblo de Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by settlers from
present-day Mexico of Indian, African, and European descent. Capital of
Mexican California in the 1840s, the town grew with the influx of
Anglo-Americans, Europeans, and Chinese later in the nineteenth
century. As Los Angeles blossomed into a modern metropolis, the old
pueblo fell into disrepair. It was revitalized with the opening in 1930 of
the Mexican marketplace at Olvera Street. Illustrated in color
throughout, the book combines engaging text with historical paintings,
archival photographs, and new photography to create a vivid portrait of
the pueblo, its history, and its heritage. The book surveys life in the
Spanish, Mexican, and early American periods and tells the story of
the Siqueiros mural América Tropical, a remarkable tale of art,
ideology, and politics in 1930s Los Angeles. Final chapters tour the
pueblo's historic buildings and discuss current initiatives to preserve its
rich heritage.

Jean Bruce Poole was senior curator and then historic museum director
of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument between 1977 and
her retirement in 2001. Tevvy Ball is an editor with Getty Publications.

Published by Getty Publications, distributed by Oxford University Press.
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Liberty and Conscience
A Documentary History of the Experiences of
Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War

Edited by PETER BROCK

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern
consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans
have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and
compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the
twentieth century has been well documented, there has been surprisingly
little study of its long history in America's early conflicts, defined as
these have been by accounts of patriotism and nation-building. In fact,
during the period of conscription from the late 1650s to the end of the
Civil War, many North Americans refused military service on grounds
of conscience.

In this volume, Peter Brock, one of the foremost historians of American
pacifism, seeks to remedy this oversight by presenting a rich and varied
collection of documents, many drawn from obscure sources, that shed
new light on American religious and military history. These include legal
findings, church and meeting proceedings, appeals by nonconformists to
government authorities, and illuminating excerpts from personal
journals. These accounts contain many poignant, often painful, and
sometimes even humorous episodes that offer glimpses into the lives of
conscientious objectors of the era. One of the most striking features to
emerge from these documents is the critical role of religion in the
history of American pacifism. Brock finds that virtually all who refused
military service in this period were inspired by religious convictions, with
Quakers frequently the most ardent dissenters. In the antebellum period,
however, the pacifist spectrum expanded to include nonsectarians such
as the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the New England
Non-Resistance Society. A dramatic, powerful portrait of early American
pacifism, Liberty and Conscience presents not only the thought and practice
of the objectors themselves, but also the response of the authorities and the
general public.

Peter Brock is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Pacifism from the Middle Ages to the Great War as well as many other books and articles on the history of pacifism. He was a conscientious objector during World War II and later served as a volunteer in the
Anglo-American Quaker Relief Mission in postwar Poland.

Religion & Theology

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Philosophy in America
A Cultural and Intellectual History 1720-2000

BRUCE KUKLICK

A panoramic history of philosophy in America, from the colonial era to the twenty-first-century

Ranging from Joseph Bellamy to Hilary Putnam, and from early New England Divinity Schools to contemporary university philosophy departments, historian Bruce Kuklick recounts the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States.

Readers will explore the thought of early American philosphers such as
Jonathan Edwards and John Witherspoon and will see how the political
ideas of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson
influenced philosophy in colonial America. Kuklick discusses The
Transcendental Club (members Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson) and describes the rise of pragmatism centered on Metaphysical Club of Cambridge (and members William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Peirce). He examines the profound impact Darwinism had on American philosophy and looks at Idealists such as
the Kantian Josiah Royce and the Hegelian John Dewey. The book shows how, in the twentieth century, the Nazi conquest of Europe unleashed a flood of European intellectuals onto these shores, including such major thinkers as Theodore Adorno, Erich Fromm, Rudolph Carnap, and Alfred Tarski. Finally, Kuklick examines the contributions
of such contemporary philosophers as Sidney Hook and Willard Quine and such books as John Rawl's A Theory of Justice and Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man. Kuklick pulls no punches in portraying the state of American philosophy today and its contested role in the intellectual life of the nation and the world.

The range of philosophical thought in our nation's history has been great, from Edwards's Religious Affections to Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and Bruce Kuklick has captured it all in a book that blends intricate details with sweeping vision.

Bruce Kuklick is Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also edited American Quarterly and held appointments in the departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

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The First West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860

Edited by EDWARD WATTS, Michigan State University, and
DAVID RACHELS, Virginia Military Institute

In early nineteenth-century American writing, the "West"--all of the
territory between the Appalachian mountains and the Mississippi
River--was a ubiquitous subject. However, this writing is often
overlooked in studies of the American West, which reach past this
region to the Far Western frontier, and in analyses of whites and Native
Americans, which typically focus on moments of contact.

Tracing historic events in the early westward movement, The First
West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860 brings together
a unique and extensive range of writers and texts. Many of the texts
produced in and about this "first West" have not been reprinted until
now. The book's sixty selections include government documents and
treaties, land-promotion schemes, white depictions of Natives, Native
accounts of whites, Easterners describing Westerners, Westerners
describing Easterners, and literary texts. Several selections concern
contact and conquest, while others focus on community building in the
wake of westward-moving white settlement. The volume includes
literary and non-literary writing from such well-known figures as
Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Margaret Fuller, Black Hawk,
Caroline Kirkland, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and Abraham Lincoln. It also
features writing from lesser-known individuals including William Warren,
Jane Johnston, Rebecca Burlend, Daniel Drake, Eliza Farnham, and
Gideon Lincecum. Demonstrating a strikingly vital interracial,
interregional, and intercultural dialogue, The First West illustrates the
continuing diversification of American cultural history. An exceptional
text for courses in American literature and history, it challenges
students' ideas about the American frontier, the West, and the processes
of contact, settlement, community, and class.

Features many selections that have not been reprinted since their initial publication

Presents a wide variety of material including treaties, letters, political documents, fiction, poetry, and humor

Provides helpful introductions to the authors and explanatory footnotes

English Language & Literature

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Early American Writings

Carla Mulford, General Editor, Pennsylvania State University

Associate Editors:

Angela Vietto, Eastern Illinois University,

and Amy E. Winans, Susquehanna University

Collects a rich sampling of writings from other cultures in addition
to a generous selection of works from the standard English-speaking
authors found in American literature survey texts.

Early American Writings brings together a wide range of writings from the era of
colonization of the Americas through the period of confederation in North America
and the formation of the new United States of America. The anthology includes
materials representing cultures indigenous to the Americas as well as writings by
British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Swedish, German, African, and African
American peoples in America during the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
With more than 170 writers included, the collection represents the works known and
admired in the writers' own day, illustrates the diversity of interests and peoples
depicted in those writings, and demonstrates the range of cross-cultural references
early American readers experienced. The breadth of the collection provides readers
with a fuller understanding of the backdrop for what is known as "American" culture
today, in all its diversity.

Early American Writings includes several original translations and features more
poetry than any other anthology in the field. Each section covers a different period of
colonization and is introduced by extensive commentary. All selections have been
carefully annotated to help students place the writings in their cultural and regional
contexts. Ideal for courses in early/colonial American literature and culture, colonial
American studies, American studies, and American history, Early American
Writings gives students an unprecedented look into the diverse and fascinating
culture of early America.

. Introduces each period of colonization with an extensive essay
. Provides annotations for all selections
. Includes several original translations of materials
. Features more poetry than any other anthology of its kind

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The Slaveholding Republic: Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery

DON E. FEHRENBACHER

Completed and Edited by WARD M. MCAFEE

The final major work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian—an important contribution to our understanding of slavery in the United States

William Lloyd Garrison argued--and many leading historians have since agreed--that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. Garrison called it “a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell.” But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians, Don E. Fehrenbacher, argues against this claim, in a wide-ranging, landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Fehrenbacher ranges from sharp-eyed analyses of the deal-making behind the "proslavery clauses" of the constitution, to colorful accounts of partisan debates in Congress and heated confrontations with Great Britain (for instance, over slaves taken off American ships and freed in British ports). He shows us that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal law). Nevertheless, he also reveals that US policy--whether in foreign courts, on the high seas, in federal territories, or even in the District of Columbia--was consistently proslavery. The book concludes with a brilliant portrait of Lincoln. Fehrenbacher makes clear why Lincoln's election was such a shock to the South and shows how Lincoln's approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by modern standards, quickly evolved into a "Republican revolution" that ended the anomaly of the United States as a "slaveholding republic."

The last and perhaps most important book by a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, The Slaveholding Republic illuminates one of the most enduring issues in our nation's history.

Don E. Fehrenbacher died in 1997. He was the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University, where he taught for 30 years. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, and he edited and completed David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis,
which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. He was awarded the Lincoln Prize for lifetime achievement in 1997. Ward M. McAfee is Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino. One of Don Fehrenbacher's former students, he has published in a variety of fields, including the Civil War and Reconstruction, world religions, and California history. He lives in Upland, California.

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The American Intellectual Tradition
Volume I: 1630-1865, Fourth Edition

David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley, and
Charles Capper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The fourth edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology has been
revised to include more discussions of religion, psychology, social theory, gender,
ethnicity, and the role of the United States in the world. Volume I now offers new
selections from Jonathan Edwards, "Brutus," Judith Sargent Murray, William Ellery
Channing, Nathaniel William Taylor, Charles Grandison Finney, William Lloyd
Garrison, Orestes Brownson, and Martin Delany. Volume II now offers new
selections from Frederick Jackson Turner, Woodrow Wilson, W. E. B. Du Bois, H.
L. Mencken, Sidney Hook, David E. Lilienthal, Erik H. Erikson, Hannah Arendt, W.
W. Rostow, C. Wright Mills, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Ellison, and Nancy J.
Chodorow.

"The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey
ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth
edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical
commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies." --James T. Kloppenberg,
Harvard University

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American History

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Oxford Reference Book Society
The Oxford Companion to United States History

Editor-in-Chief: PAUL S. BOYER

The most important Oxford Companion to appear in
decades--a monumental source of information on United
States history and culture

Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With
over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it
illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but
also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and
medicine; the arts; and religion.

Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and
Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D.
Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and
religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as
Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk
and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson,
even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that
have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded
Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v.
Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the
Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights);
influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies
(conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and
iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the
Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from
Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating,
Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries
cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery,
and the Federal Government.

A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States
History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human
Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in
clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike,
this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience,
its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.

Paul S. Boyer is Merle Curti Professor of History and Director of the
Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of
Wisconsin--Madison, and the author of Salem Possessed: The Social
Origins of Witchcraft.   

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Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History
Volume I: From the Founding Through the Age of Industrialization
Second Edition

Edited by MELVIN I. UROFSKY, Virginia Commonwealth University, and PAUL FINKELMAN, The University of Tulsa

Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, 2/e, is a
two-volume companion to Urofsky and Finkelman's successful text, A
March of Liberty, 2/e. Organized chronologically, this documents reader
skillfully weaves together constitutional and legal history, offering
students a mix of both frequently cited and lesser-known-but equally
important-historical documents and court decisions that have been
instrumental in shaping the nation's constitutional development. The
editors provide an introduction to each document, which summarizes its
significance and places it within its historical context. Each introduction is
followed by a brief list of suggestions for further reading. Both volumes
contain the complete text of the U.S. Constitution for ease of reference.

Now in its second edition, Documents of American Constitutional and
Legal History has been updated to reflect the most recent constitutional
and legal scholarship, including material on the latest Supreme Court
decisions and the recent presidential election controversy. In addition, the
introductory notes and suggested reading sections have also been revised.
Volume I covers the period from colonization up through the age of
industrialization. Documents of American Constitutional and Legal
History, 2/e, is an essential resource for courses in U.S. Constitutional
history and legal history, as well as constitutional law courses in other
disciplines.

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Oxford Reference Book Society

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America
3-Volume Set

Edited by DAVÍD CARRASCO

Long before the Spanish encountered the glory of the Aztec Empire, the region
known as Mesoamerica experienced the rise and fall of a number of great
civilizations. Beginning with the early days of the Olmec (900-400 BCE), the lands
from central Mexico to the edge of today's Costa Rica gave birth to complex, dynamic
societies. Only now, thanks to stunning advances in archaeology and other fields, can
we begin to understand the full record of these extraordinary cultures and the forces
that changed the course of Mesoamerican history.

Presenting the most up-to-date coverage of our knowledge of Mesoamerica, The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive and
comparative reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern
Mesoamerica.

Written for a wide audience, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
is an invaluable reference for interested lay persons, students, teachers, and scholars
in such fields as art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, Latin American
culture, and the history of the region. Organized alphabetically, the articles range from
500-word biographies to 7,000-word entries on geography and history to the legacy
of the arts, writings, architecture, and religious rituals.

An extensive network of cross-references, blind entries, and annotated bibliographies guides the reader to related entries within the encyclopedia and provides the groundwork for further research.

The most wide ranging, authoritative, and ambitious reference source of this kind ever undertaken

Contains more than 600 original articles on every facet of Mesoamerican culture, from key sites and civilizations to basic concepts and major figures

Brings together contributions from leading scholars in many fields and from many countries

Incorporates the explosion of new evidence and scholarship--new archaeological data, linguistic discoveries, and new translations of key literary and religious texts

Covers the strong legacy of Aztec, Olmec, Mayan, and other cultures in contemporary Mexico and Central America

Designed for non-specialists, students, and specialists alike

Davíd Carrasco is Professor of the History of Religions and Director of the
Raphael and Fletcher Lee Moses Mesoamerican Archive at Princeton University

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World History

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The Concise Companion to African American Literature

Edited by William L. Andrews University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

Frances Smith Foster, Emory University, and
Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the
astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept
over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of
writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to
Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on
major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A
Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as
Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character
types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster.
Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of
Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and
Harriet Tubman.

Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave
narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of
related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast
array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of
the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African
American literature.

English Language &
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A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony, Second Edition

John P. Demos.

Thirtieth anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the author

The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little
Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos. This
groundbreaking study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by
the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical
artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal and official enactments, Demos
portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships, emphasizing those of
husband and wife, parent and child, and master and servant. The book's most startling
insights come from a reconsideration of commonly-held views of American Puritans
and of the ways in which they dealt with one another. Demos concludes that Puritan
"repression" was not as strongly directed against sexuality as against the expression
of hostile and aggressive impulses, and he shows how this pattern reflected prevalent
modes of family life and child-rearing. The result is an in-depth study of the ordinary
life of a colonial community, located in the broader environment of
seventeenth-century America.

Demos has provided a new foreword and a list of further reading for this second
edition, which will offer a new generation of readers access to this classic study.

John Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University. He is the
author of Entertaining Satan, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and The Unredeemed
Capture

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New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 201. $11.95 paper.

The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880

ANNE LEE BRESSLER

This book offers the first cultural history of Universalism in America. Bressler
argues that Universalism began as a radical, community-oriented faith and only later
became a "comfortably established" progressive and individualistic one. She
distinguishes Universalist values from more liberal Unitarian values, and shows how
Universalists adopted and later abandoned Calvinist beliefs.

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Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution

JOHN FERLING

A major reconsideration of the American Revolution and of the three
men who did most to create the United States

Setting the World Ablaze is the story of the three men who, perhaps more than any
others, helped bring the United States into being: George Washington, John Adams,
and Thomas Jefferson. Braiding three strands into one rich narrative, John Ferling
brings these American icons down from their pedestals to show them as men of flesh
and blood, and gives us a new understanding of the passion and uncertainty of the
struggle to form a new nation.

A leading historian of the Revolutionary era, Ferling draws on an unsurpassed
command of the primary sources and a talent for swiftly moving narrative to give us
intimate views of each of these men. More than any scholar before him, Ferling
shows us both the overarching historical picture of the era and a gripping sense of
how these men encounterd the challenges that faced them. At close quarters, we see
Washington, containing a profound anger at British injustice within an austere
demeanor; Adams, far from home, struggling with severe illness and French duplicity
in his crucial negotiations in Paris; and Jefferson, distracted and indecisive,
confronting uncertainties about his future in politics. John Adams, in particular,
emerges from the narrative as the most underappreciated hero of the Revolution, while
Jefferson is revealed as the most overrated of the Founders, although the most
eloquent.

Setting the World Ablaze shows in dramatic detail how these conservative
men--successful members of the colonial elite--were transformed into radical
revolutionaries, and in doing so, it illuminates not just the special genius of these three
leaders, but the remarkable transformation of His Majesty's colonies into the United
States.

"A major work, resting on formidable and impeccable scholarship. It tells a
fascinating story of a crucial chapter in American history, and brings that
story to life through the experiences of three unquestioned giants of the era.
Ferling shows that John Adams is perhaps the most under-appreciated hero
of the American Revolution, and brings Washington down from Mount
Rushmore as a great but human figure."--Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas
Jefferson and Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

"John Ferling places Jefferson, Adams and Washington--the bard, the
workhorse, and the leader of men--in relation to the Revolution and to each
other. Jefferson is down, Adams is up, Washington remains first in war, and
Ferling is a clear winner for sweep and instruction."--Richard Brookhiser,
author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington and
Alexander Hamilton, American

John Ferling is Professor of History at the State University of West Georgia and
the author of John Adams: A Life and The First of Men: A Life of George
Washington. He lives in Carrollton, Georgia.

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Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America

JAMES AXTELL, College of William and Mary

Natives and Newcomers describes the major encounters between Indians and
Europeans -- first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social
and sexual mingling, work, conversions, military clashes -- and probes the short- and
long-term consequences for both cultures. The end result is an accessible and often
witty book which shows how encounters between Indians and Europeans ultimately
shaped a distinctly American identity.

Author is one of America's premiere ethnohistorians; this collection
represents the first time his best essays have been collected in one place.

Unlike most readers, the book is written by one person, in one voice, and
covers all facets of Indian-European relations.

The writing is accessible to college-level students, without jargon or
dense academic prose.

An ideal text for Colonial American History or American Indian History.

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A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples

Edited by BARRY M. PRITZKER

The first and primary reference source for those interested in
learning about North American Indians--covering over 200 groups
in all

Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for
further inquiry, this highly readable reference provides a wealth of specific
information about all known North American Indians. Readers will delight in the
stirring narratives about everything from notable leaders and relations with
non-natives; to customs, dress, dwellings, and weapons; to government and religion.
Addressing over 200 groups of Native American groups in Canada and the United
States, A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and People is at once
exhaustive yet readable, covering myriad aspects of a people spread across ten
geographical regions.

Listed alphabetically for easy access, each Native American group is presented in
careful detail, starting with the tribal name, translation, origin, and definition. Each
entry then includes significant facts about the group's location and population, as well
as impressive details about the history and culture of the group. Bringing each entry
up-to-date, Editor Barry Pritzker also addresses with ease current information on each
group's government, economy, legal status, and reservations. Engaging and precise,
Pritzker's prose makes this extensive work an enjoyable read. Whether he is giving
the court interpretation of the term "tribe" (Many traditional Native American groups
were not tribes at all but more like extended families) or describing how a Shoeshone
woman served as a guide on the Louis and Clarke expedition, the material is always
presented in a clear and lively manner.

In light of past and ongoing injustices and the momentum of Indian and Intuit
self-determination movements, an understanding of these native cultures as well as
their contributions to contemporary society becomes increasingly important. This
book provides all the essential information necessary to fully grasp the history,
culture, and current feelings surrounding North American Indians. It is not only a
compelling resource for students and researchers of Native American studies,
anthropology, and history, but an indispensable guide for anyone concerned with the
past and present situation of the numerous Native American groups.

Includes cultural and demographic information from the ancient past
through the present

Features a pronunciation guide, maps, index, glossary, bibliographies,
and numerous illustrations

Barry Pritzker is a former teacher of American History and the author of books on
Ansel Adams, Matthew Brady, and Edward Curtis. He is also a contributing author
for the Dictionary of American Biography and the Atlas of Native American
History, both published by Cambridge University Press.

576 pp.; 7 x 10; 0-19-513877-5

$25.00 (03) Tentative
paper
0195138775
September 2000

$45.00 (02) Tentative
cloth
019513897X
September 2000
Protestants in America

MARK NOLL, Wheaton College

A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and
multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and
ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins of
American Protestants all the way back to the first English colony at Jamestown. The
book covers their involvement in critical issues from temperance to the civil rights
movement, the establishment of Protestant organizations like the American Bible
Society and the Salvation Army, and the significant expansion of their ethnic base
since the first African-American Protestant churches were built in the 1770s. Mark
Noll follows their direct impact on American history--from the American Revolution
to World War I and beyond--and peppers his account with profiles of leading
Protestants, from Jonathan Edwards and Phillis Wheatley to Billy Graham and
Martin Luther King, Jr.

192 pp.; 35 b/w illus.; 7-1/2 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511034-X

$22.00 (04) Tentative
cloth
019511034X
October 2000
Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England

JANE KAMENSKY

Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once historical, socio-cultural, and linguistic, Jane Kamensky explores the little-known words of unsung individuals, and reconsiders such famous Puritan events as the banishment of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem witch trials, to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue." But even while dangerous or deviant speech was restricted, as Kamensky illustrates here, godly speech was continuously praised and promoted. Congregations were told that one should lift one's voice "like a trumpet" to God and "cry out and cease not." By placing speech at the heart of New England's early history, Kamensky develops new ideas about the complex relationship between speech and power in both Puritan New England and, by extension, our world today.

"Governing the Tongue is a fascinating study of the spoken word in seventeenth-century New England. At once meticulously researched and elegantly argued, it combines trenchant analysis with writing so lively and fresh that it is a must read not only for early American scholars but for anyone interested in an absorbing account of the relationship between speech and power."--Carol Karlsen, Harvard Divinity School

"'Speech history' is a topic scarcely imagined as recently as a few years ago. But now, with Jane Kamensky's pathbreaking new book in hand, scholars and students of the American past must take it very seriously indeed. With the utmost care, with great interpretive finesse, and in consistently sparkling prose, Kamensky shows us a new side of that venerable target--colonial New England--and provides as well an excellent model for other studies of other places."--John
Demos, Yale University

"Recovering the sounds in our silent sources is one of the most challenging tasks facing historians. Jane Kamensky has been enormously resourceful in her seeking and finding an astonishing range of ways to do this. Recreating the pervasive ranked-and-gendered hierarchisms of early America for our epistemically equalitarian world is another daunting task which Jane Kamensky has most persuasively accomplished. This is a highly original work that synthesizes of a vast
body of historiographical and theoretical scholarship into a compelling narrative--for which readers will be immeasurably grateful."--Rhys Isaac, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Jane Kamensky is Assistant Professor of American History at Brandeis University and author of The Colonial Mosaic: American Women, 1600-1760 (OUP,
1995).

304 pp.; 3 figures; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-513090-1
$19.95
Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents

JILL LEPORE

This collection of rare documents vividly illustrates the variety of
encounters between Native American peoples and European new
comers from the 15th to 18th centuries. Jill Lepore takes a hands-on
approach to history; she shows rather than describes major historical
events. The documents selected include a wide variety of media, including
maps, articles, calendars, captivity narratives, government documents,
peace treaties, diaries, and correspondence. Native American local maps, archaeological evidence relating to pre-Colombian cultures, a selection of
Hernan Cortes's letters, advertisements for servants, and account ledgers of plantation owners are just a few examples of the unique treasures collected
between the covers of Encounters in the New World.

Textbooks may interpret history, but the books in the Pages from History series are history. Each title, compiled by a prominent historian, is a
collections of primary sources relating to a particular topic of historical significance. Documentary evidence including news articles, government
documents, private letters and diaries, works of fiction, and photographs allows history to speak for itself and makes every reader a historian. Head notes,
extended captions, sidebars, and introductory essays provide the essential context that frames the documents. All the books are amply illustrated and include a chronology, further reading section, and index.

Pages From History Series

176 pp. 150 b/w & 12 color illus; 12 pp. insert; 8 x 10
$23.00s 0-19-510513-3
January 2000

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