Books written by Philip D. Morgan
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Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
For brickmaking, see Lucy Bowles Wayne, “Burning Brick: A Study of a Lowcountry Industry” (Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1992), esp. 51, 55; and Bradford L. Rauschenberg, “Brick and Tile Manufacturing in the South Carolina Low ...
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Colonial Chesapeake Society
Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the ...
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Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples...
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Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
My recent book, Peter Hunt, Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians (Cambridge, UK, 1998), argues for greater slave participation than Garlan and Welwei accept and discerns a pattern of neglect in our sources.
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Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the ...
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Black Experience and the Empire
This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style.
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Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
This volume discusses key areas of the Atlantic world, including the British, Dutch, French, Iberian, and African Atlantic, as well as the movement of ideas, peoples, and goods.
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Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
117–48 ; and David Barry Gaspar , Bondmen and Rebels : A Study of MasterSlave Relations in Antigua ( Baltimore , 1985 ) , pp . 65–68 , 93-99 . 3. Gaspar , Bondmen and Rebels , ch . 4 ; Robert V. Wells , The Population of the British ...
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Early North America in Global Perspective
These essays capture the complexity of North America's past and are in tune with the global influences that shape its present.
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Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
These original essays present a comprehensive and incisive look at how Atlantic history has been interpreted across time and through a variety of lenses from the fifteenth through the early nineteenth century.
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Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples...
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African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
William H. Adams, ed., “Historical Archaeology of Plantations at Kings Bay, Camden County, Georgia,” Report Submitted to ... Samford, Subfloor Pits, 149–73; Mark Leone, The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in ...
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Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with...
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Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon
The text illuminates three key themes: first, the lives, families, and experiences of the enslaved people of Mount Vernon; second, Washington's changing views on slavery, culminating in his pioneering action to free his slaves per the terms ...
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Diversity and Unity in Early North America
The book opens up previously unexplored areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of new methods such as anthropology, and historical demography to the study of early America.
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Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500–1800
Featuring chapters by Jonathan Israel, Natalie Zemon Davis, Aviva Ben-Ur, Holly Snyder, and other prominent Jewish historians, this collection opens new avenues of inquiry into the Jewish diaspora and integrates Jewish trade and settlements ...
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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
... Iglesias, conventos y hospitales en Cartagena colonial (Bogotá: El Ancora Editores, 1998); José López Sánchez, Cuba: medicina y civilización, siglos XVII y XVIII (Havana: Editorial Científico y Técnica, 1997); Stipriaan, Surinaams ...