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Early American Studies Monograph Series

from the
McNeil Center and the University of Pennsylvania Press

EDITORS
Daniel K. Richter
Kathleen M. Brown
Max Cavitch
David Waldstreicher

 

2019 PUBLICATIONS

The Disaffected (2019) Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy (2019) Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots (2019)
Aaron Sullivan,
The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution (2019)
Strother E. Roberts,
Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England (2019)
Tyson Reeder,
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution (2019)
Captives of Liberty(2019) Speaking with the Dead in Early America (2019) Laid Waste: The Culture of Exploitation in Early America (2019)
T. Cole Jones,
Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution (2019)
Erik R. Seeman,
Speaking with the Dead in Early America (2019)
John Lauritz Larson,
Laid Waste: The Culture of Exploitation in Early America (2019)

 

2018 PUBLICATIONS

Unsettling the West (2018) The Medical Imagination (2018) Christian Slavery (2018)
Rob Harper,
Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley (2018)
Sari Altschuler,
The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (2018)
Katharine Gerbner, Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World (2018)
Colonial Complexions (2018) The Commerce of Vision(2018) A Not-So-New World  (2018)
Sharon Block, Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America (2018)
Peter John Brownlee, The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America (2018)
Christopher M. Parsons, A Not-So-New World : Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (2018)

2017 PUBLICATIONS

John James Audubon (2017) Contested Bodies (2017) Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean (2017)
Gregory Nobles,
John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman (2017)
Sasha Turner, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (2017)
Randy M. Browne, Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean (2017)
Warner Mifflin (2017) Liquid Landscape (2017) Poetry Wars (2017)
Gary B. Nash,
Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017)
Michele Currie Navakas,
Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (2017)
Colin Wells,
Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and the Early Republic (2017)

2016 PUBLICATIONS

Slavery's Capitalism (2016) Tea Sets and Tyranny (2016) Dangerous Neighbors (2016)
Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, Editors
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development(2016)
Steven C. Bullock, Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of Politeness in Early America (2016)
James Alexander Dun,
Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution (2016)
Empire by Collaboration (2015) The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States (2016) Against Self-Reliance (2015)
Marisa J. Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (201) Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael Drexler, Editors, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies (2016) Susan Juster, Sacred Violence in Early America (2016)
Republic of Taste (2016) Cast Down (2016) The Threshold of Manifest Destiny (2016)
Catherine E. Kelly, Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America (2016) Mark J. Miller, Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850 (2016) Laurel Clark Shire, The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida (2016)
Frontier Country (2016) The American Revolution Reborn (2016)  
Patrick Spero, Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (2016) Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman, Editors, The American Revolution Reborn (2016)  

2015 PUBLICATIONS

Capitalism By Gaslight (2015) Professional Indian (2015) Anglicizing America (2015)
Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson, Editors
Capitalism By Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America (2015)
Michael Leroy Oberg, Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams (2015)
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Andrew Shankman, and David J. Silverman, Editors,
Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic (2015)
Empire by Collaboration (2015) Against Self-Reliance (2015) Liberty's Prisoners (2015)
Robert Michael Morrissey, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country (2015) William Huntting Howell, Against Self-Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States (2015) Jen Manion, Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (2015)
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience (2015)    
Padraig Riley, Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America (2015)    

 

2014 PUBLICATIONS

Taming Lust (2014) Robert Love's Warnings (2014) Contested Spaces of Early America (2014)
Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown, Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic (2014)
Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger,
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (2014)
Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman, Editors,
Contested Spaces of Early America (2014)
Domestic Intimacies (2014) Lenape Country (2014) The Settlers' Empire (2014)
Brian Connolly,
Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
(2014)
Jean R. Soderlund,
Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
(2014)
Bethel Saler,
The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest (2014)
     

 

2013 PUBLICATIONS

 

Donna Merwick: Stuyvesant Bound (2013) Slavery's Borderland (2013) An Age of Infidels (2013)
Donna Merwick, Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time (2013)
Matthew Salafia,
Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River
(2013)
Eric R. Schlereth,
An Age of Infidels: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States (2013)
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians (2013) Seasons of Misery (2013) Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World (2013)
Sophie White ,
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
(2013)
Kathleen Donegan,
Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America (2013)
Cecile Vidal,
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
(2013)
     

 

2012 PUBLICATIONS

Michael Witge: An Infinity of Nations (2012) 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty
Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (2012)
Nicole Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism (2012)
Evan Haefeli, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty(2012)
Michael A. Lacombe, Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World (2012) Michael A. Lacombe, Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World (2012) Sophie White, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana (2012)
Michael A. Lacombe, Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World (2012) Geoffrey Plank, John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom (2012) Sophie White, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana (2012)
     

 

2011 PUBLICATIONS

Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda, Editors, The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America (2011) Konstantin Dierks, In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America (2011) David Jaffee, A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (2011)
Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda, Editors, The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America (2011)
Konstantin Dierks, In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America (2011)
David Jaffee, A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (2011)
Anna M. Lawrence, One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism (2011) Konstantin Dierks, In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America (2011) Andrew J. Lewis, A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic (2011)
Anna M. Lawrence, One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism(2011)
Tracy Neal Leavelle,
The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America
(2011)
Andrew J. Lewis,
A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic

(2011)
Christopher J. Lukasik, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America (2011) Gail D. MacLeitch, Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire (2011) Gail D. MacLeitch, Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire (2011)
Christopher J. Lukasik, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America
(2011)
Gail D. MacLeitch,
Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire(2011)
Owen Stanwood,
The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution (2011)

1996 - 2010 PUBLICATIONS

(Click on the book covers for further information and to order directly from the press. Titles are in order of publication.) Matthew Dennis, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic (2010) Judith Ridner, A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior (2010)
 

Matthew Dennis, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic (2010)

Judith Ridner, A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior(2010)

Erik R. Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 (2010) John Smolenski, Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (2010) Gunlög Fur, A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians (2009)

Erik R. Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 (2010)

John Smolenski, Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (2010)

Gunlög Fur, A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians (2009)

Joseph M. Hall, Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (2009) Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (2009) Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (2009)

Joseph M. Hall, Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (2009)

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (2009)

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (2009)

Barry Levy, Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution (2009) Sheila L. Skemp, First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (2009) Serena R. Zabin, Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (2009)

Barry Levy, Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution (2009)

Sheila L. Skemp, First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (2009)

Serena R. Zabin, Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (2009)

Katherine Carté Engel, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (2009) J. M. Opal, Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England (2008) Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith, eds., Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (2008)

Katherine Carté Engel, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (2009)

J. M. Opal, Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England (2008)

Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith, eds., Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (2008)

Janet Moore Lindman, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America (2008) John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (2008) Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2007)

Janet Moore Lindman, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America (2008)

John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (2008)

Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2007)

Jason Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (2007) Amy C. Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians (2007) Liam Riordan, Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic (2007)

Jason Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (2007)

Amy C. Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians (2007)

Liam Riordan, Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic (2007)

Michael Leroy Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians (2007) Simon Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (2006) Donna Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland (2006)

Michael Leroy Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians (2007)

Simon Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (2006)

Donna Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland (2006)

Jack D. Marietta and G. S. Rowe, Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (2006) Ann M. Little, Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (2006) Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America (2007)

Jack D. Marietta and G. S. Rowe, Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (2006)

Ann M. Little, Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (2006)

Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America (2007)

Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006) John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, eds., New World Orders:Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (2005) Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (2005)

Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006)

John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, eds., New World Orders:Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (2005)

Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (2005)

Geoffrey Plank, Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire (2005) Margaretta M. Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (2005) Rodney Hessinger, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850 (2005)

Geoffrey Plank, Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire (2005)

Margaretta M. Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (2005)

Rodney Hessinger, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850 (2005)

Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet, eds., Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World (2005) Laura M. Stevens, The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (2004) Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004)

Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet, eds., Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World (2005)

Laura M. Stevens, The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (2004)

Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004)

The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (2004) 	Simon P. Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (2003) Susan Juster, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution (2003)

Richard R. Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (2004)

Simon P. Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (2003)

Susan Juster, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution (2003)

Adrienne D. Hood, The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania (2003) Paul A. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (2003) Judith L. Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York (2002)

Adrienne D. Hood, The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania (2003)

Paul A. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (2003)

Judith L. Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York (2002)

Sarah J. Purcell, Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (2002) Gary B. Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2001) Roderick McDonald, Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson’s Journal of St. Vincent during Apprenticeship (2001)

Sarah J. Purcell, Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (2002)

Gary B. Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2001)

Roderick McDonald, Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson’s Journal of St. Vincent during Apprenticeship (2001)

Ruth Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Eighteenth-Century New England (2001) Susan Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (2001) Donna J. Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (2000)

Ruth Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Eighteenth-Century New England (2001)

Susan Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (2001)

Donna J. Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (2000)

Geoffrey Plank, An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (2000) Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (2000) Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century (1998)

Geoffrey Plank, An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (2000)

Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbea (2000)

Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century (1998)

Simon P. Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (1997) Rosalind Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (1996) Aaron Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (1996)

Simon P. Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (1997)

Rosalind Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (1996)

Aaron Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (1996)