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Chapters from books not included in main list: (2 items)
Sweet negotiations: sugar, slavery, and plantation agriculture in early Barbados - Russell
R. Menard, 2006
Book | Chapter 5
Worlds of wonder, days of judgment: popular religious belief in early New England - David
D. Hall, 1989
Book
General Texts and Source Collections (7 items)
Colonial British America: essays in the new history of the early modern era - Jack P.
Greene, J. R. Pole, 1984
Book
The peopling of British North America: an introduction - Bernard Bailyn, 1987, c1986
Book
American colonies - Alan Taylor, 2002, c2001
Book
Major problems in American colonial history: documents and essays - Karen Ordahl
Kupperman, 2000
Book
Interpreting a continent: voices from colonial America - Kathleen DuVal, John DuVal, c2009
Book
Atlantic history: a critical appraisal - Jack P. Greene, Philip D. Morgan, 2009
Book
The British Atlantic world, 1500-1800 - David Armitage, M. J. Braddick, 2002
Book
Week 1: Paths to the New World (16 items)
People (12 items)
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Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world - Alison Games, 1999
Book
Hopeful journeys: German immigration, settlement, and political culture in colonial
America, 1717-1775 - Aaron Spencer Fogleman, c1996
Book
The People with No Name: Ulster's Migrants and Identity Formation in Eighteenth-Century
Pennsylvania - Patrick Griffin, 2001
Article
Irish immigrants in the land of Canaan: letters and memoirs from colonial and
revolutionary America, 1675-1815 - Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, David
N. Doyle, 2003
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Kingdom and colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World 1560-1800 - Nicholas P. Canny, 1988
Book
The westward enterprise: English activities in Ireland, the Atlantic and America, 1480-1650
- Kenneth R. Andrews, P. E. H. Hair, David B. Quinn, Nicholas P. Canny, 1978 [i.e.1979
Book
Trade, plunder and settlement: maritime enterprise and the genesis of the British Empire,
1480-1630 - Kenneth R. Andrews, 1984
Book
The Social Basis of English Commercial Expansion, 1550-1650 - Robert Brenner, 1972
Article
Social Mobility in England, 1500-1700 - Lawrence Stone, 1966
Article
Younger Sons in the Seventeenth Century - Joan Thirsk, 1969
Article
The Jamestown project - Karen Ordahl Kupperman, 2007
Book
A path in the mighty waters: shipboard life & Atlantic crossings to the New World - Stephen
Russell Berry, 2015
Book
Ideologies of Empire (4 items)
Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7, Of Colonies - Adam Smith
Webpage
The wealth of nations: Books IV-V - Adam Smith, Andrew S. Skinner, 1999
Book | Read: Book IV, Chapter 7 - Of Colonies.
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The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America - Nicholas P. Canny, 1973
Article
Lords of all the world: ideologies of empire in Spain, Britain and France, c.1500-c.1800 - A.
R. Pagden, 1995
Book
Weeks 2 and 3: Settling America (35 items)
The Chesapeake (Virginia and Maryland) (7 items)
Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs: gender, race, and power in colonial
Virginia - Kathleen M. Brown, 1996
Book
From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in
Seventeenth-Century Maryland - Russell R. Menard, 1973
Article
Adapting to a new world: English society in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake - James
P. P. Horn, c1994
Book
Robert Cole's world: agriculture and society in early Maryland - Lois Green Carr, Russell R.
Menard, Lorena Seebach Walsh, 1991
Book | Chapter 2 digitised.
American slavery, American freedom: the ordeal of colonial Virginia - Edmund Sears
Morgan, 1975
Book
The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, 1977
Article
Seasons of misery: catastrophe and colonial settlement in Early America - Kathleen
Donegan, 2014
Book
New England (13 items)
Escaping Salem: the other witch hunt of 1692 - Richard Godbeer, 2005
Book
The times and trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans divided - Michael P. Winship, 2005
Book
A New England town: the first hundred years : Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736 -
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Kenneth A. Lockridge, 1985
Book
Profits in the wilderness: entrepreneurship and the founding of New England towns in the
seventeenth century - John Frederick Martin, 1991
Book
Revising the Errand: New England's Ways and the Puritan Sense of the Past - David M.
Scobey, 1984
Article
Farmers & fishermen: two centuries of work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 Daniel Vickers, 1994
Book
The New England merchants in the seventeenth century - Bernard Bailyn, 1955
Book
The devil in the shape of a woman: witchcraft in colonial New England - Carol F Karlsen,
1989
Book
New England and the Challenge of Heresy, 1630 to 1660: The Puritan Crisis in
Transatlantic Perspective - Stephen Foster, 1981
Article
Underlying Themes in the Witchcraft of Seventeenth-Century New England - John Demos,
1970
Article
Good wives: image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750 Laurel Ulrich, 1991
Book
Women before the bar: gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 - Cornelia
Hughes Dayton, 1995
Book | Please look in Week 8 to see scan of Chapter 3.
The English Atlantic in an age of revolution, 1640-1661 - Carla Gardina Pestana, 2007
Book | Chapter 3 digitised.
The Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware) (7
items)
Death of a notary: conquest and change in colonial New York - Donna Merwick, 1999
Book
Before the melting pot: society and culture in colonial New York City, 1664-1730 - Joyce D.
Goodfriend, 1992
Book
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Quakers and politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 - Gary B. Nash, 1993
Book
The best poor man's country: a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania James Thomas Lemon, 1972
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Landlord and tenant in colonial New York: manorial society, 1664-1775 - Sung Bok Kim,
1978
Book
"How It Came that the Bakers Bake No Bread": A Struggle for Trade Privileges in
Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam - Simon Middleton, 2001
Article
From privileges to rights: work and politics in colonial New York City - Simon Middleton,
2006
Book
The Lower South and the Caribbean (Carolinas) (8 items)
Dying in Paradise: Malaria, Mortality, and the Perceptual Environment in Colonial South
Carolina - H. Roy Merrens and George D. Terry, 1984
Article
Black majority: Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion Peter H Wood, 1996
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Economic beginnings in colonial South Carolina, 1670-1730 - Converse D. Clowse, 1971
Book
Plantation enterprise in colonial South Carolina - S. Max Edelson, 2006
Book
Assimilation in North Carolina's Moravian Community - Daniel B. Thorp, 1986
Article
Jesus Is Female: The Moravian Challenge in the German Communities of British North
America - Aaron Spencer Fogleman, 2003
Article
Inheritance and Independence: Women's Status in Early Colonial Jamaica - Trevor Burnard,
1991
Article
European Migration to Jamaica, 1655-1780 - Trevor Burnard, 1996
Article
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Week 4: Whose New World? Europeans and Native Americans (13 items)
Second Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians - James H. Merrell, 2012
Article
Indians and English: facing off in early America - Karen Ordahl Kupperman, 2000
Book
The middle ground: Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 Richard White, 2011
Book
Into the American woods: negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier - James Hart Merrell,
1999
Book
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England - William Cronon,
2003
Book
The European and the Indian: essays in the ethnohistory of colonial North America - James
L. Axtell, 1981
Book
The Indians' new world: Catawbas and their neighbors from European contact through the
era of removal - James Hart Merrell, 1991, c1989
Book
The name of war: King Philip's War and the origins of American identity - Jill Lepore, 1999
Book
Dead Men Tell No Tales: John Sassamon and the Fatal Consequences of Literacy - Jill
Lepore, 1994
Article
The unredeemed captive: a family story from early America - John Demos, 1996
Book
The ordeal of the longhouse: the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European
colonization - Daniel K. Richter, 1992
Book
At the crossroads: Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763 - Jane T.
Merritt, 2003
Book | Please refer to Week 10 to see Chapter 7 digitised.
The native ground: Indians and colonists in the heart of the continent - Kathleen DuVal,
2006
Book
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Week 5: Unwilling Migrants (10 items)
Saltwater slavery: a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora - Stephanie E.
Smallwood, 2007
Book
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 - John Kelly Thornton,
1998
Book
Eighteenth-century criminal transportation: the formation of the criminal Atlantic - Gwenda
Morgan, Peter Rushton, 2004
Book
“Out of the Land of Bondage”: The English Revolution and the Atlantic Origins of Abolition John Donoghue, 2010
Article
The evil necessity: British naval impressment in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world Denver Alexander Brunsman, 2013
Book
The Knowles Atlantic Impressment Riots of the 1740s - Denver Alexander Brunsman, 2007
Article
The many-headed hydra: sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the
revolutionary Atlantic - Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker, 2000
Book
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Olaudah Equiano, 2001
Book
From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in
Seventeenth-Century Maryland - Russell R. Menard, 1973
Article
Bound for America: A Profile of British Convicts Transported to the Colonies, 1718-1775 A. Roger Ekirch, 1985
Article
Week 6: The Colonies in a British Atlantic World (26 items)
The economy of British America, 1607-1789 - John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard, 1985
Book
Tobacco and slaves: the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 Allan Kulikoff, 1986
Book
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The fabulous history of the Dismal Swamp Company: a story of George Washington's times
- Charles Royster, 2000
Book
A vigorous spirit of enterprise: merchants and economic development in Revolutionary
Philadelphia - Thomas M. Doerflinger, 1986
Book
Tobacco culture: the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve of Revolution T. H. Breen, 2001
Book
Markets and Composite Farms in Early America - Richard Lyman Bushman, 1998
Article
Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America - James A. Henretta, 1978
Article
Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic
community, 1735-1785 - David Hancock, 1995
Book
Commerce and culture: the maritime communities of colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 Christine Leigh Heyrman, 1984
Book
Purchasing identity in the Atlantic world: Massachusetts merchants, 1670-1780 - Phyllis
Whitman Hunter, 2001
Book
The marketplace of revolution: how consumer politics shaped American independence - T.
H. Breen, 2004
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Material life in America, 1600-1860 - Robert Blair St. George, 1988
Book
The refinement of America: persons, houses, cities - Richard L. Bushman, 1993, c1992
Book
What clothes reveal: the language of clothing in colonial and federal America : the Colonial
Williamsburg Collection - Linda Baumgarten, 2002
Book
"Pedlar in divinity": George Whitefield and the transatlantic revivals, 1737-1770 - Frank
Lambert, 1994
Book
Under the cope of heaven: religion, society and politics in colonial America - Patricia U.
Bonomi, 2003
Book
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The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 - Rhys Isaac, 1982
Book
The intellectual construction of America: exceptionalism and identity from 1492 to 1800 Jack P. Greene, 1993
Book
Civil tongues & polite letters in British America - David S. Shields, 1997
Book
Awash in a sea of faith: Christianizing the American people - Jon Butler, 1990
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Pursuits of happiness: the social development of early modern British colonies and the
formation of American culture - Jack P. Greene, 1988
Book
Imperatives, behaviors, and identities: essays in early American cultural history - Jack P.
Greene, 1992
Book
Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction - Jon
Butler, 1982
Article
Becoming America: the revolution before 1776 - Jon Butler, 2000
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
From colonials to provincials: American thought and culture, 1680-1760 - Ned C.
Landsman, 2000
Book | Chapter 3 digitised.
Through a glass darkly: reflections on personal identity in early America - Ronald Hoffman,
Mechal Sobel, F.J. Teute, 1997
Book
Week 7: Backcountries and Borderlands (8 items)
At the edge of empire: the backcountry in British North America - Eric Hinderaker, Peter C.
Mancall, 2003
Book | Chapter 3 digitised.
Breaking the backcountry: the Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 Matthew C. Ward
Webpage | Read Chapter 3, pp. 59-91.
Breaking the backcountry: the Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 Matthew C. Ward, 2003
Book | Chapter 3, pp. 59-91.
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Elusive empires: constructing colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 - Eric Hinderaker,
1997
Book
American leviathan: empire, nation, and revolutionary frontier - Patrick Griffin, 2007
Book
The people with no name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of
a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764 - Patrick Griffin, 2001
Book
The elusive West and the contest for empire, 1713-1763 - Paul W. Mapp, 2011
Book
The native ground: Indians and colonists in the heart of the continent - Kathleen DuVal,
2006
Book
Week 8: Politics, Law, and Order in the Eighteenth Century (21 items)
The urban crucible: social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American
Revolution - Gary B. Nash, 1979
Book
The "lower sort": Philadelphia's laboring people, 1750-1800 - Billy Gordon Smith, 1990
Book
The many-headed hydra: sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the
revolutionary Atlantic - Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker, 2000
Book
Diversity and unity in early North America - Philip D. Morgan, 1993
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Riot and revelry in early America - Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman, William Pencak,
2002
Book
Inequality in early America - Carla Gardina Pestana, Sharon V. Salinger, 1999
Book
New World orders: violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas - John
Smolenski, Thomas J. Humphrey, 2005
Book | Available in library and as e-book. Read: Sharon Block, “Violence or Sex?
Constructions of Rape and Race in Early America,”.
The British Atlantic world, 1500-1800 - David Armitage, M. J. Braddick, 2002
Book | Read: Keith Wrightson, “Class”.
Taverns and drinking in early America - Sharon V Salinger, 2002
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Tocqueville, Turner, and Turds: Four Stories of Manners in Early America - Michael
Zuckerman, 1998
Article
The Journal of American History - Michael Zuckerman
Journal | Read articles in this issue.
Deference, Republicanism, and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth-Century
America - Richard R. Beeman, 1992
Article
Creole gentlemen: the Maryland elite, 1691-1776 - Trevor G. Burnard, 2002
Book
The king's three faces: the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776 - Brendan McConville,
2006
Book | Chapter 5 digitised.
The Lord Cornbury scandal: the politics of reputation in British America - Patricia U. Bonomi
, 1998
Book
Peripheries and center: constitutional development in the extended polities of the British
Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 - Jack P. Greene, 1986
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Women before the bar: gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 - Cornelia
Hughes Dayton, 1995
Book | Chapter 3 digitised.
Robert Love's warnings: searching for strangers in colonial Boston - Cornelia Hughes
Dayton, Sharon V. Salinger, 2014
Book
Settlers, liberty, and empire: the roots of early American political theory, 1675-1775 Craig Yirush, 2011
Book
Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic - 2015
Book
Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761 - Andrew D. M. Beaumont, 2014
Book
Week 10: The Seven Years War (19 items)
A people's army: Massachusetts soldiers and society in the Seven Years' War - Fred
Anderson, 1984
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Crucible of war: the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America,
1754-1766 - Fred Anderson, 2000
Book
The war that made America: a short history of the French and Indian War - Fred Anderson,
2006
Book
Breaking the backcountry: the Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 Matthew C. Ward, 2003
Book
A People's Army: Provincial Military Service in Massachusetts during the Seven Years' War
- Fred Anderson, 1983
Article
`The European Method of Warring Is Not Practiced Here': The Failure of British Military
Policy in the Ohio Valley, 1755-1759. - Ward, M.C.
Article
The sense of the people: politics, culture, and imperialism in England, 1715-1785 Kathleen Wilson, 1995
Book
The urban crucible: social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American
Revolution - Gary B. Nash, 1979
Book
Rebellion of the Regulars: Working Soldiers and the Mutiny of 1763-1764 - Peter Way,
2000
Article
Competing Authorities: The Debate over Parliamentary Imperial Jurisdiction, 1763-1776* Jack P. Greene, 2008
Article
A Note on the Comparative Study of the Structure of Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Britain and Its American Colonies - Paul Lucas, 1971
Article
Competing Authorities: The Debate over Parliamentary Imperial Jurisdiction, 1763-1776* Jack P. Greene, 2008
Article
A Note on the Comparative Study of the Structure of Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Britain and Its American Colonies - Paul Lucas, 1971
Article
Peripheries and center: constitutional development in the extended polities of the British
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Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 - Jack P. Greene, c1986
Book | Available in library and as e-book.
Political Mimesis: A Consideration of the Historical and Cultural Roots of Legislative
Behavior in the British Colonies in the Eighteenth Century - Jack P. Greene, 1969
Article
The origins of American politics - Bernard Bailyn, 1968
Book
The marketplace of revolution: how consumer politics shaped American independence - T.
H. Breen, 2004
Book | Available in library and as e-book. Chapters 6 through 8.
The king's three faces: the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776 - Brendan McConville,
2006
Book | Please refer to week 8 to see scan of chapter 5.
At the crossroads: Indians and empires on a mid-Atlantic frontier, 1700-1763 - Jane T.
Merritt, 2003
Book | Chapter 7 digitised.
Primary Sources
There are numerous primary sources for the study of early America online.
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