Riot and revelry have been mainstays of English and European history writing for more than a generation, but they have had a more checkered influence on American scholarship. Despite considerable attention from "new left" historians during the 1970s and early 1980s, and more recently from cultural and "public sphere" historians in the mid-1990s, the idea of America as a colony and nation deeply infused with a culture of public performance has not been widely demonstrated the way it has been in Britain, France, and Italy. In this important volume, leading American historians demonstrate...
Riot and revelry have been mainstays of English and European history writing for more than a generation, but they have had a more checkered influen...
Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able to play a significant role in forging the political culture of the young nation. The creation of many of the patriotic holidays we still celebrate coincided with the emergence of the first two-party system. With the political songs they sang, the liberty poles they raised, and the partisan...
Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and ...
Embodied History The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia Simon P. Newman Winner of the 2004 American Studies Network Book Prize "Newman has ably probed the limited representations of the bodies of the poor in the public records--glimpses of lives otherwise unrecorded--and has given us a useful and readable account of the ways in which the poor were regulated by the emergent disciplinary power of the modern state, even as some poorer individuals were able in limited ways to resist that power."--William and Mary Quarterly "A well-researched, well-written, and compelling study of...
Embodied History The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia Simon P. Newman Winner of the 2004 American Studies Network Book Prize "Newman has ably p...
Europe's American Revolution explores how the American Revolution has been constructed, defined and understood by Europeans from the 1770s up until the present day. Historians in the United States have often assumed that the ideals of the American Revolution had an enduring significance outside of their own country, arguing that the contagion of liberty spread to France and beyond. According to this view, the American republic and the values upon which it was founded have served as the world's first and foremost emblem of liberty and democratic government. The essays in this volume...
Europe's American Revolution explores how the American Revolution has been constructed, defined and understood by Europeans from the 1770s up...
A New World of Labor The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic Simon P. Newman "A New World of Labor is a landmark event in British Atlantic history. It is a major book by a major historian and will have an enormous impact on the way we conceptualize any number of topics, from the importance of integrating once again seventeenth-century British developments with developments in Africa and the Americas; to the necessity of seeing the Atlantic slave trade as considerably different in Africa and America; to reassertions of the centrality of labor in understanding New...
A New World of Labor The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic Simon P. Newman "A New World of Labor is a landmark event in...
The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army, his publication of The American Crisis (1776-83), and his work with Pennsylvania's revolutionary government consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost radicals of the Revolution. Thereafter, Paine spent almost fifteen years in Europe, where he was actively involved in the French Revolution, articulating his radical social, economic, and political vision in major...
The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American ind...
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the New World. By the early seventeenth century, more than half a million enslaved men, women, and children had been transported to the island. In A New World of Labor, Simon P. Newman argues...
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...
