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Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean

Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit

By Kristen Block

From The University of Georgia Press - Available June 2012

"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

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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...  More >>

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Creolization and Contraband

Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World

By Linda M. Rupert

From The University of Georgia Press - Available July 2012

"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 >>

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Empire at the Periphery

British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713

By Christian J. Koot

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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Cultivating Regionalism

Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest

By Kenneth Wheeler

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 values...