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Christopher Leslie Brown won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. The prize is given by the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and recognizes an outstanding work of scholarship on those topics.

Holly Brewer was awarded the Order of the Coif Book Award for By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. The Order of the Coif is an honorary scholastic society that focuses on excellence in legal education, scholarship, and professional practice.

Emily Clark received the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, given by the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association, for Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834.

Steven W. Hackel’s Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 has received another prize: the W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association.

Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship, by Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan, introduces the reader to an early republican America significantly different from the partisan political world of the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans that usually defines the historical narratives of the period. Instead, Kaplan traces the intersection and then separation of culture and politics in the new United States. The circles of writers, editors, and critics, forming and commenting on an emerging nation and involved in transatlantic ideas, were intent on creating a public space for intellectual critique and literary production. Their networks of discussion, print, and association operated outside politics, promoting a discourse of dissent that would contribute to human enlightenment and universal betterment.

In Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson’s Early American Women, Marion Rust takes the life and works of the nation’s best-selling novelist until Harriet Beecher Stowe as an opportunity to reassess literate Anglo-American women’s responses to their changing role in early national culture. The author puts Rowson and her texts in the context of the postrevolutionary period’s conflicted and mutable views on gender and agency, the literary public sphere, sentimental discourse, dramatic performance, the expanding franchise, and female academy education. A pre-Victorian sentimentalism mediated the constantly shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is the key to understanding both Rowson’s work and the lives of early national women. Rust’s book shows us the ways in which literature and lived experience overlapped, especially for women trying to find room for themselves in a public that had less and less space for them.

Nicole Eustace’s Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution argues that emotional expression had a causal role in the social transformations of eighteenth-century British America. The author analyzes the role of emotions in social and political interactions during the pivotal years of debate on the organization of society and the regulation of the self that culminated in the American Revolution. Based in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, a setting as remarkable for its social and cultural complexity as for its political contentiousness, the study argues that emotional exchanges provided a daily forum for testing beliefs about human nature and thus for trying Enlightenment ideas about natural equality. Efforts to balance between the demands of self and the needs of society, between the push of passion and the pull of feeling, would come to define the emerging American nation. Yet the precariousness of this equilibrium left Enlightenment ideals hanging in the balance.

A paperback edition of Mary Kelley’s Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic will be available this fall from the University of North Carolina Press. Kelley argues that women’s liberal learning played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation’s history: the movement of women into public life.

Acting Editor of Publications

All books are available from the University of North Carolina Press

• Nicole Eustace, Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution. Cloth: $45.00 (Associates, $36.00).
• Marion Rust, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson’s Early American Women. Cloth: $59.95 (Associates, $47.96); Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96).
• Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan, Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship. Cloth: $59.95 (Associates, $47.96); Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96).
• Peter C. Mancall, ed., The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624. Cloth: $65.00 (Associates, $52.00); Paper: $27.50 (Associates, $22.00).
• Warren M. Billings, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1700. Revised edition. Cloth: $65.00 (Associates, $52.00); Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96).
• Emily Clark, Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834. Cloth: $59.95 (Associates, $47.96); Paper: $22.50 (Associates, $18.00).
• Michael A. McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. Cloth: $45.00 (Associates, $36.00).
• Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776. Cloth: $39.95 (Associates, $31.96); Paper: $21.95 (Associates, $17.56).
• Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic. Cloth: $39.95 (Associates, $31.96); Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96).
• Sharon Block, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. Cloth: $45.00 (Associates, $36.00); Paper: $19.95 (Associates, $15.96).
• Charles F. Hobson, ed., The Papers of John Marshall, Volume XII: January 1831–August 1835. Cloth: $80.00 (Associates, $64.00).
• Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Cloth: $55.00 (Associates, $44.00); Paper: $22.50 (Associates, $18.00).
• Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. Cloth: $49.95 (Associates, $39.96); Paper: $22.50 (Associates, $18.00).
• Clare A. Lyons, Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830. Cloth: $55.00 (Associates, $44.00); Paper: $22.50 (Associates, $18.00).
• Martin Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. Cloth: $49.95 (Associates, $39.96); Paper: $22.50 (Associates, $18.00).
• Bernard L. Herman, Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City. Cloth: $45.00 (Associates, $36.00).
• Steven W. Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850. Cloth: $59.95 (Associates, $47.96); Paper: $22.50 (Associates, $18.00).
• Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. Cloth: $45.00 (Associates, $36.00); Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96).
• Peter E. Pope, Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century. Cloth: $65.00 (Associates, $52.00); Paper: $27.50 (Associates, $22.00).
• Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804. Cloth: $59.95 (Associates, $47.96); Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96).
• Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638. Cloth: $55.00 (Associates, $44.00).

• Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (2006). Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96).
• Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 (2006). Paper: $21.95 (Associates, $17.56).
• Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005). Paper: $24.95 (Associates, $19.96). E. James Ferguson, The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776–1790 (1961). Paper: $27.50 (Associates, $22.00).

Order from Teresa T. Thomas, UNCP, 116 South Boundary Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. For credit card orders by phone: 800-848-6224; by FAX: 800-272-6817. Associates should specify their Associate membership for discount. Please add $5.00 postage/handling for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. North Carolina residents should add 6.5% sales tax.