Travellers and their Tales in Early America, 1550-1850
Honours Special Subject, Department of Modern History
MO4907
Dr. Sarah Pearsall
Reading List
NB: Back issues of William and Mary Quarterly, American Historical Review, and Journal of American History can be found online at http://www.jstor.ac.uk. More recent issues of William and Mary Quarterly, etc can be found at http://www.historycooperative.org.
On Travel Narratives
Percy Guy Adams. Travelers and Travel Liars, 1660-1800. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962.
Frank Shuffelton. “Circumstantial Accounts, Dangerous Art: Recognizing African-American Culture in Travelers' Narratives.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 27:4 (1994), 589-603.
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Louis Montrose. “The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery.” Representations, No. 33 (1991), 1-41.
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On Early America
*John M. Murrin. “Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonists in America." In Diversity and Unity in Early North America, edited by Philip D. Morgan, 259-282. London: Routledge, 1993.
*Daniel Vickers. A Companion to Colonial America. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. All of the essays are very useful, concise and up-to-date ways of gaining an overview.
Nicholas Canny, ed. Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. 1: The Origins of Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
P. J. Marshall, ed. Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Nancy A. Hewitt, ed. A Companion to American Women’s History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Karen Kupperman. Major Problems in Colonial American History. Second ed. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1999.
Albert L Hurtado. Major Problems in American Indian History. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2000.
Peter C. Mancall and James H. Merrell. American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850. London: Routledge, 2000.
David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick. The British-Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002.
Section One: Early Explorers and Observers
Contact between Native Americans and Europeans
*Karen Kupperman. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. (useful with Heriot, Smith etc)
*Daniel Richter. Facing East from Indian Country. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. (useful with Smith)
*James Axtell. Natives and Newcomers : The Cultural Origins of North America.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
*Karen Ordahl Kupperman. “Presentment of Civility: English Reading of American Self-Presentation in the Early Years of Colonization.” William and Mary Quarterly 54: 1 (1997): 193-228.
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*Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975. Ch. 1-2.
*Kathleen M. Brown. “The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier,” in Nancy Shoemaker, ed. Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women. New York: Routledge, 1995.
*Joyce E. Chaplin. “Natural Philosophy and an Early Racial Idiom in North America: Comparing English and Indian Bodies.” William and Mary Quarterly 54: 1 (1997): 229-252.
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*Nancy Shoemaker. “How Indians Got to be Red.” American Historical Review, 102:3. (1997), 625-644.
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*Alden T. Vaughan. “From White Man to Redskin: Changing Anglo-American Perceptions of the American Indian.” American Historical Review 87 (1982), p 917-952.
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*Neal Salisbury, “The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans.” William and Mary Quarterly 53.3 (1996): 435-458.
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*James Merrell. “The Customes of Our Country": Indians and Colonists in Early America.” Philip D. Morgan, ed. Diversity and Unity in Early North America.
London: Routledge, 1993. 76-112.
Philip L. Barbour. The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith. London: Macmillan, 1964.
Alfred D. Crosby. The Columbian Exchange Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Transformations and English Settlement
*William Cronon. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
*Virginia DeJohn Anderson. New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
*James P. P. Horn. Adapting to the New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Neal Salisbury. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
James Axtell. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Alden T. Vaughan, “Sir Walter Raleigh’s Indian Interpreters, 1584-1618,” William and Mary Quarterly 59:2 (2002), 341-376.
http://www.historycoop.org/journals/wm/59.2/vaughan.html
Joyce E. Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).
Plane, Ann Marie. Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000.
James Axtell. “Colonial America without the Indians: Counterfactual Reflections.” Journal of American History 73.4 (1987): 981-996.
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James Merrell. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.
Richard White. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
James Merrell. Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. London: Norton, 1999.
Colin Calloway. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. London: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.
David Cressy, Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
John Demos, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. London: Oxford University Press, 1999 (second ed).
Kenneth A. Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years. Enlarged ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985.
David Hackett Fischer. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
David Hackett Fischer, and others. “Forum: Albion's Seed: Four Folkways in America — A Symposium.” William and Mary Quarterly 43 (1991): 223-308.
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Caribbean Voyages
*Jennifer L. Morgan.“'Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder': Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770.” William and Mary Quarterly 54.No. 1 (1997): 167-192. (useful with Ligon)
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*Winthrop Jordan. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1968.
*Karen Ordahl Kupperman. “Fear of Hot Climates in the Anglo-American Colonial Experience.” William and Mary Quarterly, 41: 2 (1984): 213-240.
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Karen Ordahl Kupperman. “The Puzzle of the American Climate in the Early Colonial Period.” American Historical Review, 87:5 (1982), 1262-1289.
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Larry D. Gragg. ‘A Puritan in the West Indies: The Career of Samuel Winthrop.” William and Mary Quarterly, 50:4 (1993): 768-786.
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David W. Galenson. “Population Turnover in the English West Indies in the Late Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Perspective.” The Journal of Economic History 45:2 (1985): 227-235.
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Richard S. Dunn. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan. “Before Othello: Elizabethan Representations of Sub-Saharan Africans.” William and Mary Quarterly 54: 1 (1997): 19-44.
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Richard B. Sheridan. Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
Benjamin Braude. “The Sons of Noah and the Construction of Ethnic and Geographical Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” William and Mary Quarterly 54:1 (1997): 103-142.
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James H. Sweet. “The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought.” William and Mary Quarterly 54:1 (1997): 143-166.
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John Thornton. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Philip D. Curtin. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex : Essays in Atlantic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Section Two: Captivity and Slavery
English Captivity
(many of the works in the previous sections would also prove helpful)
*Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, (New York: Knopf, 2001), Ch 1. (useful with Rowlandson)
*Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York: Random House, Inc., 1980, Ch, 11 on “Captives.”(useful with Rowlandson)
*Jill Lepore. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Vintage, 1998. (useful with Rowlandson)
*Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney. “Revisting The Redeemed Captive: New Perspectives on the 1704 Attack on Deerfield.” William and Mary Quarterly 52:1 (1995), 3-46. (useful with Williams)
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*John Demos. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York: Knopf, 1994. (useful with Williams)
June Namias. White Captives: Gender and Etnicity on the American Frontier. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
James Axtell. “The White Indians of Colonial America.” William and Mary Quarterly 32 (1975), 55-88.
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Linda Colley. Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
African Captivity
*James Walvin. An African's Life: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745 -1797 (Washington, Cassell, 1998).
*Randy J. Sparks. “Two Princes of Calabar: An Atlantic Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom,” William and Mary Quarterly 59 (2002), 555-584.
http://www.historycoop.org/journals/wm/59.3/sparks.html
Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds. “The Spirit of Trade: Olaudah Equiano's Conversion, Legalism, and the Merchant's Life.” African American Review 32:4 (1998), 635-647.
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Adam Potkay. “Olaudah Equiano and the Art of Spiritual Autobiography.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 27:4. (1994), 677-692.
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Geraldine Murphy. “Olaudah Equiano, Accidental Tourist.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 27:4 (1994), 551-568.
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Betty Wood. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.
Edmund S. Morgan. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975.
Ira Berlin. “Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America.” Philip D. Morgan, ed. Diversity and Unity in Early North America. London: Routledge, 1993
Ira Berlin. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Philip D. Morgan. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Peter Wood. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974.
Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
David Barry Gaspar, and Darlene Clark Hines, eds. More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Martha Hodes, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Caribbean Plantation Life
*Susan E. Klepp and Roderick A. McDonald. “Inscribing Experience: An American Working Woman and and English Gentlewoman Encounter Jamaica’s Slave Society, 1801-1805.” William and Mary Quarterly 58 (2001): 637-660. (useful with Roberts)
http://www.historycoop.org/journals/wm/58.3/klepp.html
*Richard S. Dunn. “A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799 to 1828.” William and Mary Quarterly 34 (1977): 32-65.
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Deirdre Coleman. “Janet Schaw and the Complexions of Empire.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36:2 (2003),169-193.
Elizabeth A. Bohls. “The Aesthetics of Colonialism: Janet Schaw in the West Indies, 1774-1775.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 27:3 (1994), 363-390.
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Bush, Barbara. Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838. London: James Currey, 1990.
Michael Craton. Empire, Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Randle, 1997.
Hall, Douglas D. In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood of Jamaica, 1750-1786, (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1999).
Richard S. Dunn. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Richard Hart. Slaves Who Abolished Slavery. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1985.
Philip D. Morgan “Three Planters and Their Slaves: Perspectives on Slavery in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica, 1750-1790.” In Race and Family in the Colonial South, ed. Winthrop D. Jordan and Sheila L. Skemp, 37-80. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.
Christine Daniels, and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 1999. Especially article by Trevor Burnard.
Sara Salih, ed. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave. New York: Penguin Books, 2000
Trevor Burnard. “Inheritance and Independence: Women’s Status in Early Colonial Jamaica.” William and Mary Quarterly, (1991): 93-114.
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________. “European Migration to Jamaica, 1655-1780.” William and Mary Quarterly, 53: 4. (1996), 769-796.
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B.W. Higman. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Semester 2
Section Three: Becoming America?
*Jon Butler. Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America (New York: Penguin, 2001).
Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz, eds. Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Documents in Early American History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. (useful with Knight)
Richard D. Brown, ed. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791. New York: D.C. Heath, 1991.
Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Jack P. Greene. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Material and other Transformations
*Richard Bushman. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Part I.
*Robert Micklus . “The Delightful Instruction of Dr. Alexander Hamilton's Itinerarium.” American Literature 60:3. (1988), 359-384.
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*Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth, (New York: Knopf, 2001).
Robert Blair St. George, ed. Material Life in America, 1600-1860. Boston, MA : Northeastern University Press, 1988.
Richard D. Brown. Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
T.H. Breen, “‘Baubles of Britain’: The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century.” In Diversity and Unity in Early North America, ed. Philip D. Morgan. (London: Routledge, 1993): 227-256..
T.H. Breen, “Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution.” William and Mary Quarterly 50 (1993): 471-501.
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York: Random House, Inc., 1980.
Gary B. Nash. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution. Abridged ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Peter Thompson. Rum Punch & Revolution : Taverngoing & Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Sharon V. Salinger. Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.
Gary B. Nash Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1988).
James Merrell. Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. London: Norton, 1999.
Colin Calloway. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Gregory Dowd. A Spirited Resistance: The Native American Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Religion and The Great Awakening
Patricia Bonomi. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Frank Lambert. Inventing the “Great Awakening.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Rhys Isaac. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982.
Jon Butler. Awash in a Sea of Faith. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990.
David D. Hall. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics & Evangelism in Revolutionary New England. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Voluntary Immigration and Indentured Servants
(much on involuntary immigration and slavery in previous section on Captivity and Slavery)
*Sharon V. Salinger. “To Serve Well and Faithfully”: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. (useful with Moraley)
Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction. New York: Vintage, 1986.
David W. Galenson. White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Aaron S. Fogleman. Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996)
Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1986.
Nicholas Canny, ed. Europeans on the Move: Studies in European Migration, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden, eds. Colonial Identity in the Atlantic world, 1500-1800 (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1987).
Aaron S. Fogleman. “From Slaves, Convicts, and Servants to Free Passengers:
The Transformation of Immigration in the Era of the American Revolution,' Journal of American History, 85 (1998): 43-76.
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Ida Altman and James Horn. To Make America: European Emigration in Early Modern Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Section Four: New Nation, New Frontiers
*Pamela Regis. Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur and the Influence of Natural History. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
*Norman S. Grabo. “Crèvecoeur 's American: Beginning the World Anew.” William and Mary Quarterly 48:3 (1991), 159-172.
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Frank Cogliano. Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History. London: Routledge, 2000.
Richard D. Brown, ed. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791. New York: D.C. Heath, 1991.
Robert M. Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and George A. Rawlyk, eds. Loyalists and Community in North America. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Robert M. Calhoon. The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. E277.C2
Cynthia Kierner. Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800 : Personal and Political Narratives. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Charles Royster. A Revolutionary People at War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Sylvia R. Frey. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
David Waldstreicher. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1997.
Joyce Appleby. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap, 2000.
Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky. Jeffersonian America. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
New Frontiers
*James P. Ronda. “Dreams and Discoveries: Exploring the American West, 1760-1815.” William and Mary Quarterly 46 (1989): 145-162.
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*Eve Kornfeld . “Encountering "the Other": American Intellectuals and Indians in the 1790s.” William and Mary Quarterly 52:2. (1995), 287-314.
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*Richard White. “Discovering Nature in North America.” The Journal of American History, 79 (1992): 874-891.
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*Thomas P. Slaughter. The Natures of John and William Bartram. New York: Vintage, 1997.
*Thomas P. Slaughter. Exploring Lewis and Clark : Reflections on Men and Wilderness. New York: Knopf, 2003.
*Frederick Jackson Turner. The Frontier in American History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986 [1920]. Ch. 1.
*John Mack Faragher. Review Article: “The Frontier Trail: Rethinking Turner and Reimagining the American West.” The American Historical Review, 98 (1993): 106-117.
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*Gregory H. Nobles. “Breaking into the Backcountry: New Approaches to the Early American Frontier, 1750-1800.” William and Mary Quarterly 46:4. (1989), 641-670.
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Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron . “From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in between in North American History.” The American Historical Review 104 (1999): 814-841.
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Patricia Nelson Limerick. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York : Norton, 1987.
James A. Hijiya. “Why the West is Lost,” William and Mary Quarterly, 51 (1994): 276-292.
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Also see the Forum that responded to his article:
Forum: "Why the West is Lost.” William and Mary Quarterly, 51 (1994): 717-754.
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John C. Greene, “American Science Comes of Age, 1780-1820.” The Journal of American History 55 (1968): 22-41.
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James P. Ronda. Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. Revised ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Sarah H. Hill. “Weaving History: Cherokee Baskets from the Springplace Mission.” William and Mary Quarterly 53:1 (1996), 115-136.
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John Logan Allen. Passage through the Garden : Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975
Stephen Edward Ambrose. Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York : Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Richard Drayton. Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the
'Improvement' of the World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Richard White, “The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” The Journal of American History 65 (1978): 319-343.
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Roderick Frazier Nash. Wilderness and the American Mind. 4th ed.
New Haven, CT: Yale Nota Bene, 2001
Domestic Manners
*Helen L. Heineman. “Frances Trollope in the New World: Domestic Manners of the Americans.” American Quarterly 21 (1969): 544-559.
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*Richard Bushman. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Part II.
*George Rogers Taylor. The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860. Vol. IV, The Economic History of the United States. New York: Rinehart & Co, Inc., 1951 or Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, 1989.
Helen L. Heineman. "Starving in that Land of Plenty": New Backgrounds to Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans.” American Quarterly 24 (1972): 643-660.
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Kenneth Cmiel. “A Broad Fluid Language of Democracy": Discovering the American Idiom.” The Journal of American History 79 (1992): 913-936.
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Lucia Stanton. “Looking for Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the British Lions.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1993): 649-668.
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Richard L. Bushman and Claudia L. Bushman. “The Early History of Cleanliness in America.” The Journal of American History 74 (1988): 1213-1238.
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Linda K. Kerber. “The Abolitionist Perception of the Indian.” The Journal of American History 62 (1975): 271-295.
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