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Liberty or Death: Patrick Henry, Theatrical Song, and Transatlantic Patriot Politics 自由还是死亡:帕特里克·亨利、戏剧歌曲和跨大西洋爱国者政治

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.a904224

Amy Dunagin

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Indian Men and French “Women”: Fragile Masculinity and Fragile Alliances in Colonial Louisiana, 1699–1741 印第安男人和法国“女人”:1699-1741年路易斯安那殖民地脆弱的男子气概和脆弱的联盟

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.a904220

Eric Toups

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“Do You Go to New Orleans?”: The Louisiana Purchase, Federalism, and the Contingencies of Empire in the Early U.S. Republic “你去新奥尔良吗?”《路易斯安那购地、联邦制和共和初期帝国的偶然性》

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.a904223

Jacob F. Lee

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“A People before Useless”: Ethnic Cleansing in the Wartime Hudson Valley, 1754–1763 “无用之前的民族”:战争时期哈德逊河谷的种族清洗，1754-1763

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.a904222

Tom Arne Midtrød

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“I Hope I Have a Treasure in Heaven, Because My Heart Is There”: Salvation and Damnation in the Conversion Narrative of Patience Boston “我希望我在天堂有宝藏，因为我的心在那里”:耐心波士顿转变叙事中的救赎与诅咒

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.a904221

D. Bottino, Hannah Peterson

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Jews for Jackson: Isaac Harby, Southern Politics during the Election of 1824, and the Rise of Jacksonian Democracy 犹太人支持杰克逊:艾萨克·哈比，1824年选举期间的南方政治，以及杰克逊民主的兴起

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.0005

Daniel N. Gullotta

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To Counterfeit Is Death? Money, Print, and Punishment in the Early American Public Sphere 伪造死亡?早期美国公共领域中的金钱、印刷与惩罚

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.0009

Katie A. Moore

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Utopian Dreams and Untenable Realities: The Georgia Trustees' Failure to Stabilize the Frontier through Foreign Migration 乌托邦的梦想和站不住脚的现实:格鲁吉亚受托人未能通过外国移民稳定边境

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.0007

Adrian Finucane

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Texas or Territory? Borderlands Separatism and Postwar Politics in the Trans-Nueces, 1848–1850 德克萨斯还是领土?1848-1850年，跨nueces的边疆分离主义与战后政治

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.0006

Bobby Cervantes

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"Canoes of Great Swiftness": Rivercraft and War in the Northeast “大捷的独木舟”:东北的河工与战争

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Early American Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/eam.2023.0008

Zachary M. Bennett

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