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An Empire of Small Places
How Europeans, Africans, and Indians created the early southern landscape Britain’s colonial empire in southeastern North America relied on the cultivation and maintenance of …
Natchez Country
At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them …
Privateers of the Americas
Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf …
Anglo-Native Virginia
The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virginia. Virginians were unique in …
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838
This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island’s slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labour throughout the British …
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era
Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with “niceness”—a set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long-term economic and social …
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the …