Books

Early American Places Featured Title Colonization and Its Discontents Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania By Beverly C. Tomek 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 to Africa - played in national and international antislavery movements.   More >>

Early American Places Featured Title Creolization and Contraband Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World By Linda M. Rupert From The University of Georgia Press "This exploration of localized sociocultural mixing and extensive, illicit commerce on a Dutch Caribbean island makes for a fascinating study of colonial agency." Philip Morgan, author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry  More >>

All Early American Places Titles

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• Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
  
  By Beverly C. Tomek
• Creolization and Contraband: Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
  
  By Linda M. Rupert
• Cultivating Regionalism: Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest
  
  By Kenneth Wheeler
• Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713
  
  By Christian J. Koot
• On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
  
  By Diane Mutti Burke
• Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
  
  By Kristen Block
• Sounds American: National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860
  
  By Ann Ostendorf
• The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
  
  By Michele Reid-Vazquez

Upcoming Events

• Society for Historians of the Early American Republic conference
  
  July 19th - July 22nd, 2012
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  November 1st - November 4th, 2012
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The Series

"The Early American Places series is an exciting development in scholarly publishing, one that will highlight the most important part of the study of history: the local and particular dimensions of global issues and trends. This is where the rubber meets the road, where ordinary people's lives help to make, and are made by, the bustling wider world in which they live. Early American Places is an original series, and it will publish important scholarship."

— Stephanie M. H. Camp, University of Washington