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Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence-blood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and iconoclasm-to uncover how European traditions of ritual violence developed during the Reformation were introduced and ultimately transformed in the New World.
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By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.
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Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades of the nineteenth... Læs mere
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This book reconstructs the history of beguine communities in Paris, one of medieval Europe's most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities.... Læs mere
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Ranging from the birth of town meetings in England to the whipping posts of early Boston to the creation of the Scituate shipbuilding common, Town Born reveals how New England town political economies created the foundation for a relatively egalitarian American society.
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The Associational State argues that the relationship between state and civil society is fluid, and that the trajectory of American... Læs mere
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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies... Læs mere
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Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and... Læs mere
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Continuing her earlier work on women free-trade-zone factory workers in Sri Lanka, Sandya Hewamanne here... Læs mere
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Subscription Theater asks why turn-of-the-century British and Irish citizens spent so much time, money, and effort joining... Læs mere
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Focusing on the creation of the African Colonization Society (ACS) in the nineteenth century, The World Colonization Made... Læs mere