Bücher der Reihe Early American Places Series

By following key families in Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Anglo-American societies from the Seven Years' War to 1845, this study illustrates how kinship networks - forged out of natal, marital, or fictive kinship relationships - enabled and directed the actions of their members as they decided the futures of their nations.

Explores the volatile history of Dutch Guiana, in particular the forgotten colonies of Essequibo and Demerara, to provide new perspectives on European empire building in the Atlantic world. Bram Hoonhout argues that imperial expansion was a process of improvisation at the colonial level rather than a project that was centrally orchestrated.

Traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac. This is not simply a history of the city during the first president's life but a history of his vision for the national capital and of the conflicts surrounding his vision's implementation.

The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom.

Focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River. Joshua Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the struggle of non-state indigenous people to develop a method of resisting colonization.