Author: Don Higginbotham
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: institute, american, hist, omohundro, published, morgan, revolutionary, rifleman, daniel
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1979-07-23
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0807813869
ISBN-13: 9780807813867

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: american, culture, williamsburg, virginia, history, omohundro, republic, published, creation, institute
Number of Pages: 675
Published: 1998-04-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0807847232
ISBN-13: 9780807847237

Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the

Author: Sharon Block
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: history, american, culture, williamsburg, virginia, institute, omohundro, sexual, power, america, published, rape
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-09-04
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0807830453
ISBN-13: 9780807830451

In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates th

Author: Woody Holton
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: american, omohundro, virginia, institute, history, culture, revolution, forced, indians, debtors, slaves, making, founders
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-09
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0807847844
ISBN-13: 9780807847848

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.The Virginia gentry’s efforts to shape London’s imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, t