Books

Early American Places Featured Title 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 >>

Early American Places Featured Title The Year of the Lash Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World By Michele Reid-Vazquez 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 >>

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: Curaçao 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

• Organization of American Historians annual meeting
  
  April 19th - April 22nd, 2012
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• Society for Historians of the Early American Republic conference
  
  July 19th - July 22nd, 2012
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Participating Institutions

• University of Georgia Press
• Northern Illinois University Press
• NYU Press
• University of Nebraska Press
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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