The book is an inquiry into the personal values and social imperatives of the eighteenth-century Virginia gentry, for Carter exemplifies the ideas and assumptions that gave structure and coherence to…

The scope of this work allows Greene to consider in depth numerous subjects, including the dynamics of colonization, the development and character of provincial identities, the relationship between new settler…

In this book, Jack P. Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies–Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia–that reflects a process occurring throughout…

This book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. It focuses on the emergence of an early awareness of…

This first part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America

Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. Completed not long before his…

Lee Robert Jackson’s ability to detect spoken lies by the odor emitting from the speaker brings a rush of federal agents to Farmers Mill in an effort to hire the…

Revolutionary Currents explores the global crosscurrents and revolutionary ideologies that inspired four great modern revolutions - England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution in…