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2021
Religion and the American Revolution
An Imperial History
Katherine Carte
The Strange Genius of Mr. O
The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity
Carolyn Eastman
Underwriters of the United States
How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Hannah Farber
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
Jan LewisBarry Bienstock; Peter Onuf; Anette Gordon-Reed
Thirteen Clocks
How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
Robert Parkinson
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Migration and the Making of the United States
Samantha Seeley
Seeing Red
Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Michael Witgen
2020
Mining Language
Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Allison Bigelow
Jamaica Ladies
Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire
Christine Walker
2019
Eloquence Embodied
Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Céline Carayon
Virginia 1619
Slavery & Freedom in the Making of English America
Paul Musselwhite Peter C Mancall James Horn
Allegories of Encounter
Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Andrew Newman
Standard-Bearers of Equality
America’s First Abolition Movement
Paul Polgar
Caribbean New Orleans
Empire, Race and the Making of a Slave Society
Cécile Vidal
Voices of the Enslaved
Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Sophie White
2018
The Smugglers’ World
Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
Jesse Cromwell
Children of Uncertain Fortune
Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
Daniel Livesay
The Occupation of Havana
War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Elena Schneider
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Frontiers of Science
Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands
Cameron Strang
American Baroque
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492–1700
Molly A. Warsh
2017
For God, King, and People
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Alexander B. Haskell
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America
Jennifer Van Horn
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
Douglas L. Winiarski
Warring for America
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
Nicole Eustace and Fredrika Teute
2016
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Robert G. Parkinson
Selling Empire
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830
Jonathan Eacott
2015
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740
Mark G. Hanna
2014
The Art of Conversion
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Cécile Fromont
Final Passages
The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807
Gregory E. O’Malley
New Netherland Connections
Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Susanah Shaw Romney
2013
Freedom’s Debt
The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752
William A. Pettigrew
Ireland in the Virginian Sea
Colonialism in the British Atlantic
Audrey Horning
The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
Kevin Joel Berland
Love in the Time of Revolution
Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793–1818
Andrew Cayton
The History and Present State of Virginia
A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish
Robert Beverley
St. George Tucker’s Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782–1825
Charles F. Hobson and Joan S. Lovelace
2012
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747
A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
Gordon M. Sayre and Carla Zecher
A Harmony of the Spirits
Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Patrick M. Erben
Bonds of Alliance
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
Brett Rushforth
Fatal Revolutions
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Christopher P. Iannini
White over Black
American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Winthrop D. Jordan, with new forewords by Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood
Second Edition
2011
Citizen Spectator
Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Wendy Bellion
The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713–1763
Paul W. Mapp
2010
Columbia Rising
Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson
John L. Brooke
This Violent Empire
The Birth of an American National Identity
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
In the Eye of All Trade
Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1783
Michael J. Jarvis
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763
Lorena S. Walsh
Prospero’s America
John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606–1676
Walter W. Woodward
The Invasion of America
Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
Francis Jennings
2009
The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
With a New Introduction by the Author
James H. Merrell
Revolutionary Conceptions
Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820
Susan E. Klepp
Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas
Empires, Texts, Identities
Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti
Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic
Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds
Lisa Voigt
2008
Passion Is the Gale
Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Nicole Eustace
Prodigal Daughters
Susanna Rowson’s Early American Women
Marion Rust
Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan
2007
The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century (Revised Edition)
Warren M. Billings
Masterless Mistresses
The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834
Emily Clark
The Politics of War
Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
Michael A. McDonnell
2006
The King’s Three Faces
The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688 to 1776
Brendan McConville
Learning to Stand and Speak
Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
Mary Kelley
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume XII
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1831–July 1835, with Addendum, June 1783–January 1829
Charles F. Hobson and Joan S. Lovelace
Moral Capital
Foundations of British Abolitionism
Christopher Leslie Brown
The Geographic Revolution in Early America
Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
Martin Brückner
Sex among the Rabble
An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
Clare A. Lyons
American Curiosity
Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
Susan Scott Parrish
2005
Town House
Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780–1830
Bernard Herman
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis
Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850
Steven Hackel
By Birth or Consent
Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
Holly Brewer
2004
Fish into Wine
The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
Peter Pope
A Colony of Citizens
Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804
Laurent Dubois
The Precisianist Strain
Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Theodore Bozeman
2003
Foul Means
The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660–1740
Anthony Parent, Jr.
At the Crossroads
Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763
Jane Merritt
2002
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume XI
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions April 1827–December 1830
Charles F. Hobson, Susan Holbrook Purdue, and Joan S. Lovelace
Captives and Cousins
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
James Brooks
The Devil and Doctor Dwight
Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic
Colin Wells
2001
Dear Papa, Dear Charley
The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance,Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America
Ronald Hoffman, Sally D. Mason and Eleanor S. Darcy
The Many Legalities of Early America
Christopher L. Tomlins, Bruce H. Mann, Mary Sarah Bilder, Holly Brewer, James F. Brooks, Richard Lyman Bushman, Christine Daniels, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, David Barry Gaspar, Katherine Hermes, John G. Kolp, David Thomas Konig, James Muldoon, William M Offutt, Jr., Ann Marie Plane, A. G. Roeber, Terri L. Snyder, and Linda L. Sturtz
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
Kevin Berland, Jan Kirsten Gilliam, and Kenneth A. Lockridge
2000
Eloquence Is Power
Oratory & Performance in Early America
Sandra Gustafson
Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland
A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782
Ronald Hoffman and Sally Mason
The Persistence of Empire
British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
Eliga Gould
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume X
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions January 1827–March 1827
Charles F. Hobson, Susan Holbrook Purdue, and Robert W. Smith
1999
The Other Founders
Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828
Saul Cornell
Forced Founders
Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
Woody Holton
Empire’s Nature
Mark Catesby’s New World Vision
Amy R. W. Meyers and Margaret Pritchard
A Speaking Aristocracy
Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
Christopher Grasso
1998
Contact Points
American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750–1830
Fredrika J. Teute and Andrew R. L. Cayton
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume IX
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions January 1820–December 1823
Charles F. Hobson, Susan Holbrook Purdue, Laura S. Gwilliam, and Robert W. Smith
Slave Counterpoint
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Philip Morgan
The Lord Cornbury Scandal
The Politics of Reputation in British America
Patricia Bonomi
A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763–1840
Jon Sensbach
1997
In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820
David Waldstreicher
Through a Glass Darkly
Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute
1996
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Kathleen Brown
Revolutionary Brotherhood
Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730–1840
Steven Bullock
Laboratories of Virtue
Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760–1835
Michael Meranze
1995
Women Before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789
Cornelia Dayton
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume VIII
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, March 1814–December 1819
Charles F. Hobson and Laura S. Gwilliam
In Public Houses
Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts
David Conroy
The Tuesday Club: A Shorter Edition of “The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club,” by Dr. Alexander Hamilton
Robert Micklus
America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750
Karen Ordahl KuppermanKaren Kupperman
1994
Early American Technology
Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
Judith McGaw
Farmers and Fishermen
Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850
Daniel Vickers
Adapting to a New World
English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
James Horn
1993
An Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1815
Joyce Chaplin
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume VII
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, April 1807–December 1813
Charles F. Hobson, Suzanne E. Coffman, Mark A. Mastromarino, and Laura S. Gwilliam
In Search of Early America
“The William and Mary Quarterly,” 1943–1993
William and Mary Staff
1992
The Ordeal of the Longhouse
The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
Daniel Richter
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783
Daniel Usner, Jr.
1991
Profits in the Wilderness
Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
John Martin
Robert Cole’s World
Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland
Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh
The Long Argument
English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570–1700
Stephen Foster
Strangers within the Realm
Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan
1990
The Formation of a Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1615–1655
James Perry
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume VI
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, 1800–1807
Charles F. Hobson and Fredrika J. Teute
Unification of a Slave State
The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808
Rachel Klein
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760–1820
Alan Taylor
The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club by Dr. Alexander Hamilton
Robert Micklus
1989
Colonial Chesapeake Society
Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo
The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
James H. Merrell
Books about Early America: 2001 Titles
David L. Ammerman and Philip Morgan
1988
To Live Ancient Lives
The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
Theodore Bozeman
Captain John Smith
A Select Edition of His Writings
Karen Kupperman
1987
The Road to Mobocracy
Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763–1834
Paul Gilje
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume V
Selected Law Cases, 1784–1800
Charles F. Hobson, Fredrika J. Teute, George H. Hoemann, and Ingrid M. Hillinger
Beyond Confederation
Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity
Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II
The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674–1744
Kenneth Lockridge
1986
Tobacco and Slaves
The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800
Allan Kulikoff
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise
Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia
Thomas Doerflinger
The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580–1631
Philip Barbour
1985
1984
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume IV
Correspondence and Papers, January 1779–October 1800
Charles T. Cullen and Leslie Tobias
Presidents Above Party
The First American Presidency, 1789–1829
Ralph Ketcham
A People’s Army
Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years’ War
Fred Anderson
1983
1982
The Practice of Piety
Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England
Charles Hambrick-Stowe
1981
In English Ways
The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century
David Allen
Jonathan Edwards’s Moral Thought and Its British Context
Norman Fiering
Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard
A Discipline in Transition
Norman Fiering
Sources for “The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century,” by Perry Miller
James Hoopes
1980
Women of the Republic
Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
Linda Kerber
The Elusive Republic
Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
Drew McCoy
The First American Constitutions
Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era
Willi Adams
1979
A Revolutionary People at War
The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783
Charles Royster
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume III
Correspondence and Papers, January 1796–December 1798
Charles T. Cullen and William C. Stinchcombe
The Governors-General
The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569–1681
Stephen Webb
The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century
Essays on Anglo-American Society
David Ammerman and Thad Tate
1978
Circular Letters of Congressmen to their Constituents, 1789–1829
Noble Cunningham, Jr.
Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600–1775
A Handbook
John McCusker
Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York
Manorial Society, 1664–1775
Sung Kim
1977
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume II
Correspondence and Papers July, 1788–December 1795; Account Book, July 1788–December 1795
Charles T. Cullen and Herbert A. Johnson
1976
The Fledgling Province
Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733–1766
Harold Davis
1975
The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century
A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1689
Warren Billings
The Invasion of America
Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
Francis Jennings
1974
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume I
Correspondence and Papers, November 10, 1775–June 23, 1788; Account Book, September 1783–June 1788
Charles T. Cullen and Herbert A. Johnson
Fame and the Founding Fathers
Essays by Douglass Adair
Trevor Colbourn
1973
Money and Politics in America, 1755–1775
A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution
Joseph Albert Ernst
Essays on the American Revolution
James Hutson and Stephen G. Kurtz
Seeds of Extinction
Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian
Bernard Sheehan
1972
The Partisan Spirit
Kentucky Politics, 1779–1792
Patricia Watlington
Sugar and Slaves
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713
Richard Dunn
Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia
The First American Porcelain Factory, 1770–1772
Graham Hood
The Faithful Shepherd
A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century
David Hall
1970
The Great Awakening
Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740–1745
Richard Bushman
1969
1968
White over Black
American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
Winthrop Jordan
The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts
John Waters, Jr.
1967
New Jersey’s Jeffersonian Republicans
The Genesis of an Early Party Machine, 1789–1817
Carl Prince
The Democratic Republicans of New York
The Origins, 1763–1797
Alfred Young
1966
1965
Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution
Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776–1783
Marvin Brown, Jr.
The Lamp of Experience
Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
H. Colbourn
Winthrop’s Boston
Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630–1649
Darrett Rutman
1964
The Glorious Revolution in America
Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689
Michael G. Hall, Michael Kammen, and Lawrence H. Leder
Loyalists and Redcoats
A Study in British Revolutionary Policy
Paul Smith
1963
The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power
Party Operations, 1801–1809
Noble Cunningham, Jr.
The Quest for Power
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689–1776
Jack Greene
Travels in North America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782, by the Marquis de Chastellux
Howard Rice, Jr.
1962
Saints and Sectaries
Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Emery Battis
Puritan Protagonist
President Thomas Clap of Yale College
Louis Tucker
1961
The Antifederalists
Critics of the Constitution, 1781–1788
Jackson Turner Main
Massachusetts, Colony to Commonwealth
Documents on the Formation of Its Constitution, 1774–1780
Robert Taylor
The Power of the Purse
A History of American Public Finance, 1776–1790
E. James Ferguson
Robert Livingston, 1654–1728, and the Politics of Colonial New York
Lawrence Leder
1960
Benjamin Franklin and Polly Baker
The History of a Literary Deception
Max Hall
The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution
Carl Ubbelohde
1959
The Adams-Jefferson Letters
The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
Lester Cappon
Prologue to Revolution
Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764–1766
Edmund S. Morgan
Seventeenth Century America
Essays in Colonial History
James Morton Smith
1958
The Revolutionary Journal of Baron Ludwig von Closen, 1780–1783
Evelyn M. Acomb
1957
The Jeffersonian Republicans
The Formation of Party Organization, 1789–1801
Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.
American Indian and White Relations to 1830
An Essay
William N. Fenton
The Governor and the Rebel
A History of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia
Wilcomb E. Washburn
1956
The Origins of the American Party System
Three Essays
Joseph Charles
The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735–1789
Brooke Hindle
Freedom’s Fetters
The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
James Smith
1955
The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759
A Study of Amphibious Warfare
Marshall Smelser
1954
1953
The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution
The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant
Richard Hooker
The Stamp Act Crisis
Prologue to Revolution
Edmund Morgan and Helen Morgan
1952
Gentlemen Freeholders
Political Practices in Washington’s Virginia
Charles Sydnor
1950
Virginia Gazette Index: 1736–1780
Lester J. Cappon and Stella Duff
1949
1948
Gentleman’s Progress
The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1774
Carl Bridenbaugh
Meeting House and Counting House
The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682–1763
Frederick Tolles
1947
The History and Present State of Virginia, by Robert Beverley
Louis Wright
Colonists in Bondage
White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607–1776
Abbot Smith
