Grasso Christopher Ed (26 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No DJ. 1st Edition. Pp: 206-417. Titles: frt. & sp. Illust. w/ b/w drawings, photos, portraits & tables. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Four papers on Early American History and Culture. 3d ser., 69, no. 2. A cleancopy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Breen, Narrative of commercial life: consumption, ideology, and community on the eve of the American Revolution. Grasso, The experimental philosophy of farming: Jared Eliot and the cultivation of Connecticut. Lambert, Subscribing for profits and piety: the friendship of Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield. Haberlein, German migrants in colonial Pennsylvania: resources, opportunities, and experience. Selig, A German soldier in America, 1890-1783: the journal of Georg Daniel Flohr. Anderson, The great migration study . Pole, Further reflections on law and the American Revolution: a comment on the comments. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 197 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Forum on rethinking mercantilism. Evans, The plantation hoe: he rise and fall of an Atlantic commodity, 1650-1850. Narrett, Geopolitics and intrigue: James Wilkinson, the Spanish borderlands, and Mexican independence. Grubb, State redemption of the continental dollar, 1779-90. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 202 pages. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: van Deusen, Seeing Indios in sixteenth-century Castile. Paton, Witchcraft, poison, law, and Atlantic slavery. Cangany, Fashioning moccasins: Detroit, the manufacturing frontier, and the empire of consumption, 1701-1835. Bullock and McIntyre, The handsome tokens of a funeral: glove-giving and the large funeral in eighteenth-century New England. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 212 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Forum on transformation of Virginia: tobacco, slavery, and empire. Goldman, Spain and the founding of Jamestown. Browne, The "bad business" of obeah: power, authority, and the politics of slave culture in the British Caribbean. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 182 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Hinderaker and horn, Territorial crossings: histories and historiographies of the early Americas. Burnham, Samuel Gorton's leveller aesthetics and the economics of colonial dissent. Miquelon, Ambiguous concession: what diplomatic archives reveal about article 15 of the Treaty of Utrecht and France's North American policy. Weeks, Of rattlesnakes, wolves, and tigers: a harangue at the Chickasaw Bluffs, 1796. Cleves, "Heedless youth": the Revolutionary War poetry of Ruth Bryant (1760-83). Reviews. 9.25" tall; 204 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, some curling, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Middleton and Smith, Class and early America: an introduction. Rollison, The specter of the commonality: class struggle and the commonwal in England before the Atlantic world. Thompson, The thief, the householder, and the commons: languages of class in seventeenth-century Virginia. Seeny, What difference does a mode make? A fomparison of two seventeenth-century colonies: Canada and Newfoundland. McDonnell, Class war? Class struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia. Hemphill, Manners and class in the revolutionary era: a transatlantic comparison. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 213 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Hardwick, Pearsall, and Wulf, Introduction: centering amilies in Atlantic histories. Altman, Marriage, family, and ethnicity in the early Spanish Caribbean. Sweet, Defying social death: the multiple configurations of African slave family in the Atlantic world. Mangan, Moving Mestizos in sixtenth-century Peru: Spanish fathers, indigenous mothers, and the children in between. Premo, Familiar: thinking beyond lineage and across race in Spanish Atlantic family history. Sparks, Gold Coast merchant families, pawning, and the eighteenth-century British slave trade. Christie, "He is the master of his house": families and political authority in counterrevoluton Montreal. Ipsen, "The christened muylatresses": Euro-African families in a slave-trading town. Davidson and Verjus, Generational conflict in revolutionary France: widows, inheritance practices, and the "victory" of sons. 9.25" tall; 219 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Forum on ethnogenesis. Furstenberg, Atlantic slavery, Atlantic freedom: George Washington, slavery, and transatlantic abolitionist networks. Spady, Power and confession: on the credibility of the earliest reports of the Denmark Veseyy slave conspiracy. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 142 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Smallwood, African guardians, European slave ships, and the changing dynamics of power in the early modern Atlantic. Codignola, Roman Catholic conservatism in a new North Atlantic World, 1760-1829. Howell, A more perfect copy: David Rittenhouse and the reproduction of Republican virtue. Fitzmaurice, The commercial ideology of colonization in Jacobean England: Robert Johnson, Giovanni Botero, and the pursuit of greatness. Holton, Abigail Adams, bond speculator. Crane, AbigailAdams, gender politics, and The History of Emily Montague: a postscript. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 235 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Lipman, "A meanes to knitt them togeather": the exchange of body parts in the Pequot War. Eustace, The sentinmental paradox: humanity and violence on the Pennsylvania frontier. Gordon, Martial art: Benjamin West's The Death of Socrates, colonial politics, and the puzzles of patronage. Cesarini, John Eliot's "A breif history of the Mashepog Indians," 1666. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 202 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Houston, Benjamin Franklin and the "Wagon Affair" of 1755. Stievermann, A "plain, rejected little rock": the politics of martyrological self-fashioning among Pennsylvania's German peace churches, 1739-65. Waterman, Elizabeth Whitman'ssws disappearance and her "disappointment." Spieler, The legal structure of colonial rule during the French Revolution. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 227 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Abolishing the Slave Trades: Ironies and Reverberations. 9.25" tall; 347 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Roundtable. Greene, Colonial history and national history: reflections on a continuing problem. Armitage, From colonial history to postcolonial history: a turn too far? Gould, The question of home rule. Zuckerman, Exceptionalism after all; or ,the perils of postcolonialism. Yokota, Postcolonialism and material culture in the early United States. Rothman, Beware the weak state. Einhorn, the nation is already there. Greene, elaborations. Edling, "So immense a power in the affairs of war": Alexander Hamilton and the Restoration of public credit. Molineux, Pleasures of the smoke: "black Virginians" in Georgian London's tobacco shops. McClain and Ellefson, A letter from DCarolina, 1688: French Huguenots in the New World. Roper, The 1701 "act for the better ordering of slaves": reconsidering the history of slavery in proprietary South Carolina. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 213 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Winship, Godly republicanism and the origins of the Massachusetts polity. Cheney, A false dawn for Enlightenment cosmopolitanism? Franco-American trade during the American war of independence. Potofsky, The political economy of the French-American debt debate: the idewological uses of Atlantic commerce, 1787 to 1800. White, "A baser commerce": retailing, class and gender in French colonial New Orleans. Roberts, Working between the lines: labor and agriculture on two Barbadian sugar plantations, 1796-97. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 213 pages. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Block and Brown, Clio in search of Eros: redefining sexualities in early America. Bloch, Changing conceptions of sexuality and romance in eighteenth-century America. Fissell, Hairy women and naked truths: gender and the politics of knowledge in Aristotle's Masterpiece. Spear, Colonial intimacies: legislating sex in French Louisiana. Rust, What's wrong with Charlotte Temple? Lyons, Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture: homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Carroll, "I indulged my desire too freely": sexuality, spirituality, and the sin of self-pollution in the diary of Joseph Moody, 1720-1724. Foster, Antimasonic satire, sodomy, and eighteenth-century masculinity in the Boston Evening-Post. Forum: Reconsidering early American sexuality. Reviews. 9.0" tall; 269 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Iannini, "The itinerant man": Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's revolution, and the fate of Atlantic cosmopolitanism. McDonnell, A world turned "topsy turvy": Robert Munford, The Patriots, and the crisis of the revolution in Virginia. Holton, "From the labours of others": the war bonds controversy and the origins of the constitution in New England. Edney and Cimburek, Telling the traumatic truth: William Hubbard's Narrative of King Philip's War and his "map of New England." Reviews. 9.25" tall; 180 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Waterman, The Bavarian illuminati, the early American novel, and histories of the public sphere. Slauter, Being alone in the age of the social contract. Brooks, The early American public sphere and the emergence of a black print counterrepublic. Brooke, On the edges of the public sphere. Bloch, Inside and outside the public sphere. Waldstreicher, Two cheers for the "public sphere" and one for historians' skepticism. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 138 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Rather, Benjamin West's professional endgame and the historical conundrum of William Williams. Olson, Donald W., et al., Perfect tide, ideal moon: an unappreciated aspect of Wolfe's generalship at Québec. Forum: the Madisonian moment. Reviews. 9.0" tall; 241 pages. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Clemens, The consumer culture of the middle Atlantic, 1760-1820. Haulman, Fashion and the culture wars of revolutionary Philadelphia. Lewis, A democracy of facts, and empire of reason: swallow submersion and natural history in the early American Republic. Hallock, Male pleasure and the genders of eighteenth-century botanic exchange: a garden tour. Ziser, Sovereign remedies: natural authority and the Counterblaste to Tobacco. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 263 pages. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Vaughan, Sir Walter Ralegh's Indian interpreters, 1584-1618. Anderson, Animals into the wilderness: the development of livestock husbandry in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. Clark and Gould, The feminine face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852. Stagg, The Madison administration and Mexico: reinterpreting the Gutiérrez-Magee raid of 1812-1813. 9.0" tall; 206 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Peterson, Puritanism and refinement in early New England: reflections on communion silver. Middleton, "How it came that the bakers bake no bread": a struggle for trade privileges in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam. Gronim, Geography and persuasion: maps in British colonial New York. Flavell, Government interception of letters from America and the quest for colonial opinion in 1775. Pulsipher, "Our sagwwes are sageles": a letter on Massachusetts Indian policy after King Philip's War. Reviews. 9.0" tall; 276 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Griffin, The people with no name: Ulster's migrants and identity formation in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Koschnik, The democratic societies of Philadelphia and the limits of the American public sphere, circa 1793-1795. Kelpp and McDonald, Inscribing experience: an American working woman and an English gentlewoman encounter Jamaica's slave society, 1801-1805. Klepp and McDOnald, Eliza Chadwick Roberts: a voyage to Jamaica, 1805. Reviews. 9.0" tall; 190 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Doerflinger, Rural capitalism in iron country: staffing a forest factory, 1808-1815. Armitage, The declaration of independence and international law. Conway, From fellow-nationals to foreigners: British perceptions of the Americans, circa 1739-1783. Bickham, Sympathizing with sedition? George Washington, the British press, and British attitudes during the American war of independence. Simmons, Colonial patronage: two letters from William Franklin to the Earl of Bute, 1761. Forum: The making of a slave conspiracy, part 1. 9.0" tall; 338 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Jones, Virgin soils revisited. Miller, Gender, artisanry, and craft tradition in early New England: the view through the eye of a needle. Rushforth, "A little flesh we offer you": the origins of Indian slavery in New France. Ghachem, The slave's two bodies: the life of an American legal fiction. Canny and Kupperman, The scholarship and legacy of David Beers Quinn (1909-2002). Reviews. 9.0" tall; 241 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Gould, Zones of law, zones of violence: the legal geography of the British Atlantic, circa 1772. Silverman, "We chuse to be bounded": Native American animal husbandry in colonial New England. Pearsall, "The late flagrant instance of depravity in my family": the story of an Anglo-Jamaican cuckold. Helo and Onuf, Jefferson, morality, and the problem of slavery. Churchill, Gun ownership in early America: a survey of manuscript militia returns. Reviews. 9.0" tall; 228 pages. …