Creating an American Identity
New England, 1789-1825
Stephanie Kermes
Hardcover
$84.95
Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-60526-8
ISBN-10: 0-230-60526-5
Trim: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches
304 pages
Creating an American Identity examines the relationship between regionalism and nationalism in New England between 1789 and 1825. During that period New Englanders and their neighbors in New York and Pennsylvania used trans-Atlantic symbols at the same time as a model and an antithesis in the creation of their own national identity. In inventing their collective identity, Northerners not only excluded Europeans, but also Southerners from their vision of America. Widely used visual representations of New England landscapes, virtues, and people created a strong loyalty to the region. Surprisingly, New Englanders utilized their regionalism to forge an American nationalism.
Praise
"In this excellent book, Stephanie Kermes makes a signal contribution to cultural history and regional history. She draws on a transatlantic research base, and she offers a host of original insights on the creation of identity in the early national era. All scholars of New England and the early Republic should read this book."
--Joan E. Cashin, editor of Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South
About the Author(s)
Stephanie Kermes is an Assistant Professor of Social Science at Boston University.
Table of Contents
New-Englandizing America * A Prussian Monarch, an American Hero: Early Republican Royalism and Parallels between the Cult of Frederick the Great and Celebrations of the First American President * Failed Republicans: Images of the British and the French * Hero of Liberty: New England Celebrations of General Lafayette during his Visit in 1824-1825 * Separation for the Nation: The Movement for Maine’s Statehood * God’s People: The Creation of a Protestant Nation
Black Townsmen
Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
Mariana L. R. Dantas
Americas in Early Modern Atlantic World
Hardcover
$79.95
Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7576-8
ISBN-10: 1-4039-7576-0
Trim: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
296 pages
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women as they struggle with slavery, negotiations of manumission, and efforts to adapt to a life in freedom, ultimately illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.
About the Author(s)
Mariana L. R. Dantas is Assistant Professor of History, Ohio University.
Table of Contents
Abstract * Introduction * Shaping Urban Environments in Eighteenth-century Minas Gerais and Maryland * The Urban Slave Population in Baltimore and Sabará * The Urban Slave Labor Force * Manumission Practices and the Negotiation of Labor * A Free Urban Population and Labor Force of African Origin and Descent * Free Townspeople * Conclusion
The Debate on the American Revolution
Issues in Historiography
Gwenda Morgan
Hardcover
Manchester University Press
Published: April 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7190-5241-5
ISBN-10: 0-7190-5241-6
Trim: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
288 pages
Trade Paperback
$24.95
Manchester University Press
Published: April 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7190-5242-2
ISBN-10: 0-7190-5242-4
Trim: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
288 pages
The Debate on the American Revolution is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the U.S. Constitution. The approach is thematic, examining how historians in different periods interpreted these events, their causes, and their meaning. Making accessible the work of often-neglected by early historians, this book examines how the emergence of history as a professional discipline led to new and competing versions of the Revolution. It spans from the first generation of writers--whose ideas about history were shaped by the Enlightenment--to those of the 21st century--who drew on the rich legacy provided by black studies, gender and women’s studies, cultural studies, and ethno-history.
Praise
"A substantial and important survey that assesses and summarizes the truly vast literature on the American Revolution. Readable, insightful, and witty, this book will help students and scholars appreciate the complex histories of the American Revolution."--Professor Stephen Conway, University College London
About the Author(s)
Gwenda Morgan is Reader in History and American Studies at the University of Sunderland.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Pioneers * The "Noble" and the "Ignoble" * Present at the Creation: The Making of the Constitution * Ideology, Slavery, and Original Intent * African Americans: Resistance and Revolution * "A New Era in Female History" * The Indians, the West, and the Revolution * Conclusion
SLAVE REVOLUTION IN THE CARIBBEAN, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents
Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrigus
The Bedford Series in History and Culture
Description
The Haitian Revolution was the first slave rebellion to have a successful outcome, leading to the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. Incited by the French Revolution, the enslaved inhabitants of the French Caribbean began a series of revolts, and in 1791 plantation workers in Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, overwhelmed their planter owners and began to take control of the island. They achieved emancipation in 1794, and after successfully opposing Napoleonic forces eight years later, emerged as part of an independent nation in 1804. A broad selection of documents, all newly translated by the authors, is contextualized by a thorough introduction considering the very latest scholarship. Professors Dubois and Garrigus clarify for students the complex political, economic, and racial issues surrounding the revolution. Useful pedagogical tools include maps, illustrations, a chronology and a selected bibliography.
Author Bio
Laurent Dubois is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. John Garrigus is Professor of History at Jacksonville University.
Table of contents
Part One: Revolution in the Caribbean * Part Two: The Documents * The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century * The Revolution Begins, 1789-1791 * From Slave Revolution to Emancipation, 1791-1794 * Defining Emancipation, 1794-1801 * War and Independence
208 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
$39.95 - Hardcover (1-4039-7157-9)
SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND THE LAW IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
A Brief History with Documents
Sue Peabody and Keila Grinberg
The Bedford Series in History and Culture
Description
In the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English empires in the Americas, individuals and groups turned to courts of law to define and implement various types of status for indigenous Americans, forcibly imported Africans, and colonizing Europeans--and their progeny. Peabody and Grinberg introduce the voices of slaves, slave-holders, jurists, legislators, and others, as they struggle to critique, overturn, justify, or simply describe the social order in which they are embedded.
Author Bio
Sue Peabody is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University, Vancouver. She has published widely, and has won awards for her teaching of undergraduates. Keila Grinberg is Assistant Professor of History at the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, and Director of the History Department at the Universidade Candido Mendes. She is an expert on slavery, civil law, and citizenship in Brazil, subjects on which she has published and presented many papers in the United States, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Praise for Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World
“Among the volume’s strengths, apart from its sweeping geographical, cultural, and chronological scope, is its emphasis on slavery as a system of negotiation involving a complex process of bargaining and accommodation. In line with the most recent scholarship, the authors do a very effective job of portraying the enslaved as actors, rather than simply as passive victims, without minimizing the importance of their allies in the struggle against slavery. The authors also do a very effective job of discussing the intricate connections between slavery and the evolution of racial attitudes. ... This is a serious work of scholarship that is clearly written.”--Steven Mintz, University of Houston
“The authors do a first-rate job in carrying out [their] ambitious agenda. In almost every case, they have selected the essential legal documents regarding the establishment of, challenges to, and eventual destruction of Atlantic slavery. Their editing and interpretation of the documents is exemplary, reflecting a firm grasp of the complexities of the subject, and a thorough knowledge of an extensive historical literature. What ismore, their authorial style and pace should be inviting to student readers. ... In short, this is a well-crafted book that will engage readers in learning more about the people and forces that shaped Atlantic slave societies.”--T. Stephen Whitman, Mount St. Mary’s University
Table of contents
Part I: Introduction: Slavery, Freedom, and the Law * Part II: The Documents * The French Atlantic and the Haitian Revolution * England, British Colonies and the United States * Spain and Its American Colonies * Portugal and Brazil * Epilogue
208 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
$39.95 - Hardcover (1-4039-7151-X)
SAMUEL ADAMS
Father of the American Revolution
Mark Puls
Description
Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American politics, Adams astutely forced Britain into coercive military measures that ultimately led to the irreversible split in the empire. His remarkable political career addresses all the major issues concerning America’s decision to become a nation -- from the notion of taxation without representation to the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams all acknowledged that they built our nation on Samuel Adams’ foundations. Now, in this riveting biography, his story is finally told and his crucial place in American history is fully recognized.
Author Bio
Mark Puls is the co-author of Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Melvin Claxton. Puls worked as a journalist for The Detroit News for twelve years. For their series on the civil rights of Native Americans, he and Claxton were named as Michigan’s top investigative reporters by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Praise for Samuel Adams
“In the midst of the current surge of interest in the founders, the most conspicuous absence is Samuel Adams, an absence that most of his peers would have found inexplicable. Here, at last, is a new life of the man that recovers his crucial role as the Lenin of the American Revolution.”--Joseph J. Ellis, bestselling author of Founding Brothers
288 pages
9 b/w illus reg stock
Size 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
$24.95 - Hardcover (1-4039-7582-5)
ABSENCE AND MEMORY IN COLONIAL AMERICAN THEATRE: Fiorelli’s Plaster
Odai Johnson
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Description
In the case of colonial theater in America, much of what we know about performance has come from the detractors of theater and not its producers: anti-theatrical legislation, sermons, petitions, and prohibitions against the theater, all of which have resulted in a history told as a contest of Puritan and Player. Yet such a narrative hardly accounts for the flourishing theatrical circuit established between 1760 and 1776 (nineteen theatres in seven colonies and the Anglophone Caribbean). This study explores the culture’s social support of the theater in the material evidence it left behind as well as the immaterial evidence: the culture’s memory of theater, and its enormous desire for it.
Author Bio
Odai Johnson is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s School of Drama. He is the author of Rehearsing the Revolution, co-author of The Colonial American Stage, a Documentary Calendar, and numerous articles on the American theater.
Praise for Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre
“With Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre, Odai Johnson has written a book that scholars of American Theatre and early American History have been waiting for. He explores histories and lives that have remained largely unknown until this point. Johnson challenges previous misconceptions about the development of the colonial stage, and through meticulous research, helps to fill in numerous gaps in the historical record. Moreover, his imaginative framework and narrative allow the work to transcend a simple historical account of events, offering a creative new paradigm for theatre research.”--Heather S. Nathans, University of Maryland
“Odai Johnson demonstrates that our historical memories and narratives on American colonial theatre and society have shaped the evidence to tell a distorted story of anti-theatricalism, counter to the far more interesting and complex history that emerges here. With this book, Odai Johnson establishes himself as a theatre historian we all must read.”--Thomas Postlewait, Ohio State University
Table of contents
Part One: (Im)material Witnesses * Working Up from Post-holes* Mr. Sauthier’s Maps * The Anatomy of Desire * The Countenance of Mr. Douglass * Mrs. Warren’s Profession * Assuming the Wall * Part Two: Care-Takers of Memory * Spoiling Nice Stories * Case Studies * The Burning of the Lena Edwin * Silent Travelers, Silent Journals * The Perfect Storm
336 pages
Size 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
$69.95 - Hardcover (1-4039-7100-5)
August 13, 2008