Peter Charles Hoffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 959964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Charles Hoffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffer |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFER P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence
The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence offers a wide-ranging and accessible anthology of essays for understanding the Declaration's intellectual and social context, connection to the American Revolution, and influence in the United States and throughout the world. The volume places the document in the context of ideas during the Enlightenment and examines the language and structure to assess its effect and appeal throughout th…
Alexander Hamilton’s Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Bank Bill
Alexander Hamilton's view of law was more than pragmatic. Forward looking, and innovative, it saw law as a creative tool. Often misread, and dismissed, as mere policy preference, it was in fact sophisticated and superbly articulated jurisprudence. In the years between the ratification debate and the proposal for the First Bank of the United States, Hamilton displayed this jurisprudence to great effect
The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950–1975
Clio among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities
Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter
New edition of a classic social history In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution in U.S. history. At the time of Vesey’s conviction, Charleston was America’s chief slave port and one of it…
Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580 – 1865
Book Review| December 01 2011 Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580 – 1865 Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580 – 1865Tomlins, Christopher New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010xvi + 600 pp., $115.00 (cloth); $36.99 (paper) Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (4): 169–171. htt…
The Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History
My first thought on being asked to review the splendid, luminary-filled, richly revealing collection of essays assembled by Richard S. Kirkendall and the folks at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) was, “why me?” True, I attended the 2007 Minneapolis meeting, the centennial gathering from which this project emanated, but then, I have been going to OAH conventions since 1970 and have never failed to enjoy and profit from them. I recall …
The Brave New World: A history of early America
"The Brave New World covers early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to the creation of the new nation. Peter Charles Hoffer combines Atlantic Rim scholarship with a Continental perspective, illuminating early America from all angles - from its first settlers to the Spanish Century, from African slavery to the Salem witchcraft cases, from prayer and drinking practices to the development of co…
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Journal Article New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Get access New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. By Lepore Jill. (New York: Knopf, 2005. xx, 323 pp. $26.95, isbn1-4000-4029-9.) Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer University of GeorgiaAthens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Sensory Worlds in Early America
Contents:Introduction New Worlds for Historians: The Realm of the Senses1. Brave New Worlds: English-Indian Encounters 2. Invisible Worlds: Indian Wars and Witchcraft Crises 3. Other Worlds: Slave Revolts and Religious Awakenings 4. A World of Difference: The Revolution of the Senses
Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History
Journal Article Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History Get access Hull N.E.H. Hoffer Peter Charles, Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xi, 328 pp. $35.00 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). Jams L. Mcdonald Jams L. Mcdonald Syracuse University College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal Hi…
Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
Journal Article Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York. By Donna Merwick. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xviii, 281 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3608-7.) Get access Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1465–1466, https://doi.org/10.2307/267…
The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History
In late 17th-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan was brought into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, neighbours turned against neighbours and children against parents with accusations of witchcraft, and 19 people were hanged for having made pacts with the devil. Peter Charles Hoffer, a historian long familiar with the Salem witchcraft trials, now reexamines this notorious episode in…
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way
Journal Article The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: “We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way.” By Bryan F. Le Beau. (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1998. xii, 308 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-13-442542-1.) Get access Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Page 6…
The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History
Journal Article The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History. By Peter Charles Hoffer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xii, 165 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0858-3. Paper, $10.95, ISBN 0-7006-0859-1.) Get access Elizabeth Reis Elizabeth Reis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 652–653, htt…
The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History
Journal Article The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History Get access Hoffer Peter Charles, The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xi, 165 pp. $25.00 (cloth). $10.95 (paper). Arthur Steinberg Arthur Steinberg Livingstone College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 421–422, https://doi…
The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Journal Article Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. By Elaine G. Breslaw New York and The Devils Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. By Peter Charles Hoffer Baltimore Get access Amanda Porterfield Amanda Porterfield Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, …
The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Journal Article The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials Get access Hoffer Peter Charles, The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xx, 279 pp. $29.95. Edgar J. McManus Edgar J. McManus Queens College, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, Issue 4, Oct…
Invisible Worlds and Criminal Trials The Cases of John Proctor and O. J. Simpson
Journal Article Invisible Worlds and Criminal Trials The Cases of John Proctor and O.J. Simpson Get access Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer Research Professor of History and sometime adjunct Professor of Law *University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 287–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/846243 Published: 01 July 1997
The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History
The American Whig: William Livingston of New York
Journal Article The American Whig: William Livingston of New York Get access Klein Milton M., The American Whig: William Livingston of New York. Outstanding Studies in Early American History, Murrin John ed. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1993. xx, 628 pp. $95.00. Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History…
Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684-1809
Law and People in Colonial America
Sensory Worlds in Early America
Contents:Introduction New Worlds for Historians: The Realm of the Senses1. Brave New Worlds: English-Indian Encounters 2. Invisible Worlds: Indian Wars and Witchcraft Crises 3. Other Worlds: Slave Revolts and Religious Awakenings 4. A World of Difference: The Revolution of the Senses
Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History
Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803
Journal Article Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558–1803. By Peter C. Hoffer and N. E. H. Hull. (New York: New York University Press, 1981. xxii + 211 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $22.50.) Get access Lyle P. Koehler Lyle P. Koehler University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages …
Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter
New edition of a classic social history In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution in U.S. history. At the time of Vesey’s conviction, Charleston was America’s chief slave port and one of it…
Power and Precedent in the Creation of an American Impeachment Tradition: The Eighteenth-Century Colonial Record
t Pt ~o0 understand what the Framers [of the Federal Constitution] had in mind, Raoul Berger has written of impeachment in America, we must begin with English law, for nowhere did they more evidently take off from that law than in drafting the impeachment provisions. Following similar reasoning, historians have ransacked Stuart parliamentary and American constitutional records for impeachment precedents and commentary. Six neglected eighteenth-ce…
The First American Impeachments
T S HE study of impeachment in America properly begins in the seventeenth-century colonies. The impeachments of Governor John Harvey of Virginia (i635), of John Morecroft, Thomas Trueman, Charles James, and Jacob Young in Maryland (i669-i683), and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Nicholas More (i685) were serious attempts by American colonists to adapt the English law of impeachment to conditions in the New World. These cases constitute a neglected epi…
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Journal Article New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Get access New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. By Lepore Jill. (New York: Knopf, 2005. xx, 323 pp. $26.95, isbn1-4000-4029-9.) Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer University of GeorgiaAthens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
American Businessmen and the Japan Trade, 1931-1941: A Case Study of Attitude Formation
Research Article| May 01 1972 American Businessmen and the Japan Trade, 1931-1941: A Case Study of Attitude Formation Peter C. Hoffer Peter C. Hoffer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1972) 41 (2): 189–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638327 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
American Businessmen and the Japan Trade, 1931-1941: A Case Study of Attitude Formation
Research Article| May 01 1972 American Businessmen and the Japan Trade, 1931-1941: A Case Study of Attitude Formation Peter C. Hoffer Peter C. Hoffer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1972) 41 (2): 189–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638327 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
To Determine on the Future Government: Robert Yates's Plan of Union, 1774-1775
R obert Yates (1738-i80i) was, in his quiet way, one of the most influential and respected of the upriver New York Revolutionaries. An Albany Dutch plebeian lawyer, he rose to local power with his brother Peter and his cousin Abraham Yates when the Revolutionary crisis weakened the DeLancey-Johnson-Dutch patrician alliance. In I77I he gained a city council seat. Three years later he had become a leading penman and theorist for the Whig resistance…
Choosing Sides: A Quantitative Study of the Personality Determinants of Loyalist and Revolutionary Political Affiliation in New York
Journal Article Choosing Sides: A Quantitative Study of the Personality Determinants of Loyalist and Revolutionary Political Affiliation in New York Get access N. E. H. Hull, N. E. H. Hull graduate student Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter C. Hoffer, Peter C. Hoffer assistant professor of history University of Georgia, Athens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Psychohistory and Empirical Group Affiliation: Extraction of Personality Traits from Historical Manuscripts
Peter C. Hoffer, Psychohistory and Empirical Group Affiliation: Extraction of Personality Traits from Historical Manuscripts, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Summer, 1978), pp. 131-145
The First American Impeachments
T S HE study of impeachment in America properly begins in the seventeenth-century colonies. The impeachments of Governor John Harvey of Virginia (i635), of John Morecroft, Thomas Trueman, Charles James, and Jacob Young in Maryland (i669-i683), and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Nicholas More (i685) were serious attempts by American colonists to adapt the English law of impeachment to conditions in the New World. These cases constitute a neglected epi…
Power and Precedent in the Creation of an American Impeachment Tradition: The Eighteenth-Century Colonial Record
t Pt ~o0 understand what the Framers [of the Federal Constitution] had in mind, Raoul Berger has written of impeachment in America, we must begin with English law, for nowhere did they more evidently take off from that law than in drafting the impeachment provisions. Following similar reasoning, historians have ransacked Stuart parliamentary and American constitutional records for impeachment precedents and commentary. Six neglected eighteenth-ce…
Thomas Jefferson and the Law
Journal Article Thomas Jefferson and the Law. By Edward Dumbauld. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. xv + 293 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Peter C. Hoffer Peter C. Hoffer University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages 917–918, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887665 Published: 01 March 1980
Counting crime in premodern England and America: A review essay
Law and Liberty: In the Matter of Provost William Smith of Philadelphia, 1758
Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803
Journal Article Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558–1803. By Peter C. Hoffer and N. E. H. Hull. (New York: New York University Press, 1981. xxii + 211 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $22.50.) Get access Lyle P. Koehler Lyle P. Koehler University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages …
Jeremy Belknap: A Biography
Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Vision of the Generation of 1776
Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776
Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776
Journal Article Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776. By Peter Charles Hoffer. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. xiii + 166 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on method and materials, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $8.00.) Get access Peter Shaw Peter Shaw State University of New York, Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ameri…
Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803
Impeachment in America, 1635-1805
Impeachment in America, 1635-1805
Impeachment in America, 1635-1805
Impeachment in America, 1635-1805
"Impeachment and "Our Perfect Constitution
Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776
Will the Real Continental Congress Please Stand Up
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
Journal Article Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789—March 3, 1791 Get access Bickford Charlene Bangs Veit Helen E., eds., Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789—March 3, 1791. Vol. IV: Legislative Histories, Amendments to the Constitution through Foreign Officers Bill (HR-116). Vol. V: Legislative Histories, Funding Act (HR-63) t…
Honor and the Roots of American Litigiousness
Journal Article Honor and the Roots of American Litigiousness Get access Peter Charles Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer Professor of History *University of Gerogia. The author is grateful to Richard Beeman, Richard S. Dunn, N.E.H. Hull, David T. Konig, Bruce Mann, William E. Nelson, Michael Zuckerman, and the members of the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies and the University of Georgia Department of History Faculty Colloquium for their g…
The Aristocracy of the Long Robe: The Origins of Judicial Review in America
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