Recently added articles from Early American Studies:
From the editor.
Sep 22, 2008; ... This issue of Early American Studies offers a range of articles that have unusual connections. For those absorbed by the complex issues involving cultural change and exchange, essays about New England and the Caribbean will command attention. Andrea Cremer and James Robertson focus on the ...
"Pretends he can read": runaways and literacy in colonial America, 1730-1776.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT For half a century or more, historians have turned to runaway notices to make known the complexity of African American life during the colonial era. Although some, for example, have made use of them to illustrate instances of slave discontent or their understanding of the politics ...
Possession: Indian bodies, cultural control, and colonialism in the Pequot War.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This essay interrogates key aspects of the Pequot War and its aftermath, when bodies became contested sites of cultural control that pivotally reshaped colonial New England. The rhetoric and justifications of an offensive English war against the Pequots relied on the image of ...
Late seventeenth-century Spanish Town, Jamaica: building an English City on Spanish foundations.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The English who captured Jamaica in 1655 found its Spanish colonial capital unfamiliar. Their adaptations of the Spanish cultural landscapes they occupied highlight alternative criteria for appraising townscapes. Spanish military resistance continued for five years, during which ...
The Port Royal earthquake and the world of wonders in seventeenth-century Jamaica.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article examines the great Port Royal earthquake of 1692 in the context of other earthquakes that struck Jamaica in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that although most commentators viewed the tremendous devastation caused by the 1692 disaster as a ...