By Linda Sturtz
July 18, 2002
This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and ...
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By Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy
July 18, 2002
In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, ...
By Kirsten Schultz
September 13, 2001
This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World....
By Kenneth Maxwell
August 21, 2003
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Trevor Burnard
January 31, 2002
Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study ...
By Alejandro Caneque
October 07, 2004
To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of ...
By Elizabeth Mancke
December 22, 2004
The Fault Lines of Empire is a fascinating comparative study of two communities in the early modern British Empire--one in Massachusetts, the other in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Mancke focuses on these two locations to examine how British attempts at reforming their empire impacted the ...
