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Early American Histories

A series of studies on early modern North America and the Caribbean from 1500 to 1815, Early American Histories promises innovative research and analysis of foundational questions central to the work of scholars and teachers of American, British, and Atlantic history—books that bring the early American world into focus.

Series Editors: Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs, S. Max Edelson

Titles in this Series

Slavery's Medicine

Slavery's Medicine

Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean

Claire E. Gherini

Citizens of Convenience

Citizens of Convenience

The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border

Lawrence Hatter

The Road to Black Ned's Forge

The Road to Black Ned's Forge

A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier

Turk McCleskey

Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca

Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca

Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives

Edited by Kathryn N. Gray and Amy M. E. Morris

The Evil Necessity

The Evil Necessity

British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Denver Brunsman

To Organize the Sovereign People

To Organize the Sovereign People

Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

David W. Houpt

Plain Paths and Dividing Lines

Plain Paths and Dividing Lines

Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake 

Jessica Lauren Taylor

The Travels of Richard Traunter

The Travels of Richard Traunter

Two Journeys through the Native Southeast in 1698 and 1699

Richard Traunter. Edited by Sandra L. Dahlberg

Making the Early Modern Metropolis

Making the Early Modern Metropolis

Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia

Daniel P. Johnson

The Permanent Resident

The Permanent Resident

Excavations and Explorations of George Washington’s Life

Philip Levy

From Independence to the U.S. Constitution

From Independence to the U.S. Constitution

Reconsidering the Critical Period of American History

Edited by Douglas Bradburn and Christopher R. Pearl

Washington's Government

Washington's Government

Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration

Edited by Max M. Edling and Peter J. Kastor

The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending

The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending

From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746

James Knight. Edited by Jack P. Greene

Statute Law in Colonial Virginia

Statute Law in Colonial Virginia

Governors, Assemblymen, and the Revisals That Forged the Old Dominion

Warren M. Billings

Against Popery

Against Popery

Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism

Edited by Evan Haefeli

Conceived in Crisis

Conceived in Crisis

The Revolutionary Creation of an American State

Christopher R. Pearl

Redemption from Tyranny

Redemption from Tyranny

Herman Husband's American Revolution

Bruce E. Stewart

Experiencing Empire

Experiencing Empire

Power, People, and Revolution in Early America

Patrick Griffin

"Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia

"Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia

Edited by Warren M. Billings and Brent Tarter

Settler Jamaica in the 1750s

Settler Jamaica in the 1750s

A Social Portrait

Jack P. Greene

Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists

Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists

Maryland and the Politics of Religion in the English Atlantic, 1630-1690

Antoinette Sutto

Dunmore's New World

Dunmore's New World

The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings

James Corbett David

Early Modern Virginia

Early Modern Virginia

Reconsidering the Old Dominion

Edited by Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs

Creating the British Atlantic

Creating the British Atlantic

Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity

Jack P. Greene