Recently added articles from Early American Studies:

From the editor.

Mar 22, 2008; Crane, Elaine Forman ... This issue of Early American Studies has something for everyone--everyone interested in early America, that is. From Jack Greene's account of the ways in which culture travels over time and place, to Maurice Jackson's exhaustively researched study of the effect of the Haitian Revolution on ...

The cultural dimensions of political transfers: an aspect of the European occupation of the Americas.(Report)

Mar 22, 2008; Greene, Jack P. ... ABSTRACT Looking broadly at the cultural dimensions of political transfers from one European power to another in the early modern Americas from the 1640s to the 1850s, this article attempts to categorize those transfers and to tease out a framework for examining why some established ...

Benjamin Franklin's interiors.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Cahill, Edward ... Refinement hence even humblest life improves; Not the loose fair, that form and frippery loves; But she, whose mansion is the gentle mind, In thought, and action, virtuously refin'd. --Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill ABSTRACT This essay investigates the problem of ...

"Friends of the Negro! Fly with me, the path is open to the sea": remembering the Haitian Revolution in the History, Music, and Culture of the African American People.( )(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Jackson, Maurice ... To Hayti let us go, and then We may enjoy our natural rights, For negroes there are viewed as men And there thought as good as white. --William Wordsworth, "Toussaint Louverture" (1802) ABSTRACT This essay explores how the images, representations, and ideals of the ...

Stripped: clothing and identity in colonial captivity narratives.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Castro, Wendy Lucas ... ABSTRACT This article examines the preoccupation of English colonists with their state of dress during captivity by Indians as reflected in their subsequent narratives. This concern is linked to the conflation of clothing and person, and the anxieties exhibited by the colonists during ...

A "commercial view of this unfortunate war": economic roots of an American National State in the Ohio Valley, 1775-1795.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Bergmann, William H. ... ABSTRACT This article argues that the roots of an American national state were forged in the wars with Native Americans for control of the Ohio Valley between 1775 and 1795. It examines how the new national government's use of its fiscal-military powers shifted and accelerated an economic ...

"The great improvement and civilization of that race": Jefferson and the "Amelioration" of Slavery, ca. 1770-1826.(Thomas Jefferson)(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Dierksheide, Christa ... ABSTRACT After the revolution Jefferson envisioned the gradual abolition of slavery, to be achieved by "amelioration." First, the slave trade would be abolished. Second, slaves and slavery would be "improved." Third, slaves would be emancipated and expatriated. But as soon as Jefferson ...

The diary of Horace C. Lee, 1841-1842: (Part 1).(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Farmer, Patrick Gregory ... In the diary of Horace C. Lee, 1841-42, a young dry goods clerk in Springfield, Massachusetts, explores both his own emerging ideals as he grows into adulthood and also the complex gender, religious, social, and economic dynamics of a midsize New England town as it develops into a city ....