
Early American Places Featured Title
Colonization and Its Discontents
Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
From The NYU Press
Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America's abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the role that colonization - supporting the emigration of free and emancipated blacks... More >>

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Cultivating Regionalism
Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest
From The Northern Illinois University Press
In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution that was pivotal in its making -- the small college. During the antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable number of colleges in the Midwest that would help cultivate their regional identity. Through higher education, the val...

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Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
From The University of Georgia Press
"By taking religion seriously and looking across colonial empires, Block has produced a study that will be must reading for everyone interested in the early modern Atlantic."
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University

Early American Places Featured Title
Empire at the Periphery
British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713
From The NYU Press
Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping, where orderliness reflected the effectiveness of the regulatory apparatus constructed to contain Atlantic commerce. More >>

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An Empire of Small Places
Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732-1795
From The University of Georgia Press - Available 9/1/2012
Britain's colonial empire in southeastern North America relied on the cultivation and maintenance of economic and political ties with the numerous powerful Indian confederacies of the region. Those ties in turn relied on British traders adapting to Indian ideas of landscape and power. In An Empire of Small Places, Robert Paulett examines this interaction over the co... More >>
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Early American Places is a collaborative series on the early history of North America supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The participating institutions are: - University of Georgia Press- Northern Illinois University Press - NYU Press - University of Nebraska Press - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |