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The nature of slavery : environmental disorder and slave agency in colonial South Carolina / S. Max Edelson -- "For want of a social set" : networks and social interaction in the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina, 1725-1775 / Bradford J. Wood -- "Almost an Englishman" : eighteenth-century Anglo-African identities / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Conservation, class, and controversy in early America / Robert M. Weir -- Beyond declension : economic adaptation and the pursuit of export markets in the Massachusetts Bay region, 1630-1700 / James E. McWilliams -- Paternalism and profits : planters and overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825 / James M. Baird -- "The fewnesse of handicraftsmen" : artisan adaptation and innovation in the colonial Chesapeake / Jean B. Russo -- The other "Susquahannah traders" : women and exchange on the Pennsylvania frontier / James H. Merrell -- A death in the morning : the murder of Daniel Parke / Natalie Zacek -- Enjoying and defending charter privileges : corporate status and political culture in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Edward M. Cook, Jr. -- Native Americans, the plan of 1764, and a British empire that never was / Daniel K. Richter -- Between private and public spheres : liberty as cultural property in eighteenth-century British America / Michal Jan Rozbicki

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also extensively analyzed the creation of an economic order (Bretton Woods), mainly designed by Americans and tailored to their interests, but resisted by peoples residing outside of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. This scholarship, centered on the Cold War as vortex and a reconfigured world economy, is rife with contending schools of interpretation and, bolstered by troves of declassified archival documents, will support investigations and writing into the future. By contrast, this book examines a past that ran concurrent with the Cold War and interacted with it, but which usefully can also be read as separable: Washington in the first years after World War II, and in response to that conflagration, sought to redesign international society. That society was then, and remains, an admittedly amorphous thing. Yet it has always had a tangible aspect, drawing self-regarding states into occasional cooperation, mediated by treaties, laws, norms, diplomatic customs, and transnational institutions. The U.S.-led attempt during the first postwar years to salvage international society focused on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Acheson–Lilienthal plan to contain the atomic arms race, the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals to force Axis leaders to account, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the founding of the United Nations. None of these initiatives was transformative, not individually or collectively. Yet they had an ameliorative effect, traces of which have touched the twenty-first century – in struggles to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons, bring war criminals to justice, create laws supportive of human rights, and maintain an aspirational United Nations, still striving to retain meaningfulness amid world hazards. Together these partially realized innovations and frameworks constitute, if nothing else, a point of moral reference, much needed as the border between war and peace has become blurred and the consequences of a return to unrestraint must be harrowing.

92, [4], p., [1] folded leaf ; 20 cm. (8vo) ; Half-title: The rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America. [Price three shillings.] ; Attributed to Macpherson by Adams. Frequently attributed to John Dalrymple. ; "A declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of North America . setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms."--p. [5]-12, dated July 6, 1775. ; "A few more words, on the freedom of the press, addressed by the printer, to the friends of liberty in America."--[4] p. at end. By Robert Bell.

Studies of the electoral behaviour of immigrants in Western Europe and North America have revealed a remarkably coherent cross-national voting pattern. Immigrants from the non-Western world hold a strong preference for left-of-centre parties. This unusual expression of group voting is so stable over time that it has been referred to as an 'iron law'. There is, however, a dearth of scholarly research on this phenomenon. This article tests two explanations for the left-of-centre preferences of immigrants in Norway. The first is that the ideological and socio-economic composition of the immigrant electorate explains the preference for left-of-centre parties. If so, these voters' ethnic or immigrant background is not in itself decisive on Election Day. The second hypothesis is that immigrant voters engage in group voting, in which one's ethnic or immigrant background is significant and trumps other concerns when voting. This would express itself in a coherent voting pattern that cannot be explained by other factors. We also expect those who engage in group voting to favour candidates with similar ethnic backgrounds as themselves. The group voting hypothesis finds the strongest support. The immigrant vote appears to be driven by group adherence, rather than by ideology or social background. Adapted from the source document.

Labor historians from Europe and North America frequently assert that their discipline is not in a healthy state. Such a picture is a distortion, however, for the world does not stop at the equator: in various regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia the historiography of workers and labor movements has made great strides in the last twenty to thirty years. Labor history's "globalization" calls for a new type of historiography, which transcends old-style labor history from North America and Europe by incorporating its findings in a new globally-orientated approach. This article discusses some of the main issues involved: problems of a general theoretical nature, of conceptualization, multidisciplinarity, and sources. The article also identifies a few research desiderata.

Followed by the texts of 2 amendments to each of the preceding acts, as well as "An act for extending the jurisdiction of the courts of justice in the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, to the trial and punishment of persons guilty of crimes and offences within certain parts of North America adjoining to the said provinces". ; Comprises: An act for making more effectual provision for the government of the province of Quebec in North America (i.e. The Quebec Act, p. I-V) and, An act to establish a fund towards further defraying the charges of the administration of justice, and support of the civil government within the province of Quebec in America (p. VI-VIII). ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44

SummaryEryngium yuccifolium, the rattlesnake master, a characteristic species of tall‐grass prairies in eastern North America, is illustrated from plants growing in the North American Prairie planting at Wakehurst Place; its history, ecology, pollination and cultivation are described.

Mariana speaks with Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, and Evan Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of Chubb, about their outlook for North America.