Early American Places Featured Title
The Year of the Lash
Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
From The University of Georgia Press
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the "Year of the Lash" -- a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades. More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Early American Places Featured Title
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 values...
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AHA wrap-up Thanks to everyone who came out for the EAP reception at the American Historical Association meeting in Chicago. The editors look forward to seeing folks again at OAH this spring.
New titles for Spring 2012 |
Participating Institutions
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 |
