The slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the "Old South" of the early-nineteenth-century United States. In this engaging study of a colonial older South, Robert Olwell analyzes the structures and internal dynamics of a world in which both masters and slaves were also imperial subjects. While slavery was peculiar within a democratic republic, it was an integral and seldom questioned part of the eighteenth-century British empire.Olwell examines the complex relations among masters, slaves, metropolitan institutions, officials, and ideas in the South Carolina low...
The slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the "Old South" of the early-nineteenth-century United States. In this engaging...
Never truly a -new world- entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and their desire to perpetuate old world traditions or to imitate the charismatic model of the British establishment. In the course of colonial history, these contrasting impulses produced a host of distinctive cultures and identities.
In this impressive new collection, prominent scholars of early American history...
Never truly a -new world- entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of tr...
Never truly a -new world- entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and their desire to perpetuate old world traditions or to imitate the charismatic model of the British establishment. In the course of colonial history, these contrasting impulses produced a host of distinctive cultures and identities.
In this impressive new collection, prominent scholars of early American history...
Never truly a -new world- entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of tr...
