Bücher der Reihe Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

Abbot's study of the colony of Georgia, from the time it came under the administration of the Crown in 1754 until the beginning of the American Revolution, tells the story of unprecedented expansion and growth against a backdrop of fast-developing crisis throughout the Empire. Originally published in 1959.

This book describes the turbulent transformation of South Carolina from a colony rent by sectional conflict into a state dominated by the South's most unified and politically powerful planter leadership. Rachel Klein unravels the sources of conflict and growing unity, showing how a deep commitment to slavery enabled leaders from both low- and backcountry to define the terms of political and ideological compromise.The spread of cotton into the backcountry, often invoked as the reason for South Carolina's political unification, actually concluded a complex struggle for power and legitimacy. Beginning with the Regulator Uprising of the 1760s, Klein demonstrates how backcountry leaders both gained authority among yeoman constituents and assumed a powerful role within state government. By defining slavery as the natural extension of familial inequality, backcountry ministers strengthened the planter class. At the same time, evangelical religion, like the backcountry's dominant political language, expressed yet contained the persisting tensions between planters and yeomen.Klein weaves social, political, and religious history into a formidable account of planter class formation and southern frontier development.

Part one of three volume set, this text covers the beginnings of the new government through the first six years of Jefferson's presidency. Originally published in 1978.

Part two of three volume set, this text begins with the Congress that met following the Chesapeake incident, covers the period of the War of 1812, and closes with the end of Madison's administration. Originally published in 1978.

Part three of three volume set, this text opens with Monroe's inauguration, reports the postwar period, and chronicles the changing developments in the 1820s. Originally published in 1978.

Taking a material culture approach, this book examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life.

Winthrop's Boston: A Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649

Explains how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the Indian and directed his selection of policy toward the native tribes. It presents the paradoxical and pathetic story of how the Jeffersonian generation, with the best of goodwill toward the American Indian, destroyed him with its benevolence, literally killed him with kindness.

Fraden explores artist Rhodessa Jones's theater work with incarcerated women, known as the Medea Project. Balancing narrative and commentary, Fraden chronicles the process of turning the inmates' personal stories into public performance and investigates the possibilities for communication and social change of such combinations of art and activism.

This biography of William Plumer - New Hampshire lawyer, politician, senator, and governor - furnishes unique insight into state, local, and national politics in the formative period of party development. Plumer was an important participant in the American political scene for forty years. Originally published in 1962.