Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century
On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of ......
In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed.
This study examines the close cultural, economic, and military relationship between the Russian Empire and the Netherlands in the early modern period. The author argues that the Netherlands had an outsized impact on Russia's early development into a powerful state.
The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
The Making of American Whiteness shows that White supremacy was the guiding principle in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony that made up the United States of America, and for the organization of its civil society.
Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Stone proposes an innovative "neostructuralist" synthesis of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory that marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.
The Legendary Robert Rogers and His Most Famous Frontier Battle
A figure of legendary, almost mythic proportions, Robert Rogers is widely considered the father of U.S. Army Rangers. He gained his fame during the French and Indian War, fighting in the American and Canadian wilderness for the British colonies against the French and Indians, but a decade later, during the Revolution, he was almost a man without a ......
Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive ......
Old Hampshire County and Massachusetts Bay to the Revolution
In this book, Carl I. Hammer uses social, cultural, and political analysis to explore a broad range of significant colonial issues that affected western Massachusetts from the late seventeenth century to the American Revolution.
"This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity in the realms of narrative, medicine, missions, charity, and ......
