Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
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Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women’s eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman’s war. The “women of the army” toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to k… More >>
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
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Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
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Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the exp… More >>
Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
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In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
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In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner’s view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda’s seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position “in the eye of all trade.”
Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they … More >>
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
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