United States History Colonial North America Comprehensive Examination Bibliography OVERVIEWS Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. (2000) Fischer, David Hackett, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. (1989) Greene, Jack P., Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. (1988) Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America. (2000) Richter, Daniel J. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. (2003) Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. (2001) ATLANTIC CROSSINGS Armitage, David. “Three Concepts of Atlantic History,” British Atlantic World. (2002) Bailyn, Bernard, Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. (2005) Donoghue, John, ‘Fire Under the Ashes’: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution. (2013) John Donoghue and Evelyn Jennings, “Introduction” in Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor, the State, and the Rise of Global Capitalism, ca.1500-1945. (2014) Jack Greene and Philip Morgan, eds. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal. (2009) CONTACT Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. (1985) Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. (1983) Crosby, Alfred, Jr. The Columbian Exchange; Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1 1492. (1972) Gutierrez, Ramon. When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. (1991) Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. (1976) Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. (2000) James Merrell, “The Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience,” William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, 41:4 (October 1984), 547-656 Neal Salisbury, “The Indians’ Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans,” William and Mary Quarterly 53, no. 3 (Jul., 1996): 435-458 Seed, Patricia, Ceremonies of Possession. (1995) LABOR AND SLAVERY Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. (2000) Brown, Kathleen M. Goodwives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. (1996) Eltis, David, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. (2000) Gallay, Allen. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South. (2002) Jordan, Winthrop. White over Black: American Attitudes towards the Negro, 1550- 1812. (1969) Kulikoff, Allan, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800. (1986) Linebaugh, Peter and Rediker, Marcus. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. (2000) Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. (1975) 2 Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry. (1998) Thornton, John. Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1440-1680. (2nd ed, 1998) Waldstreicher, David. Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. (2004) Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. (1974) RELIGION AND CULTURE Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. (1970) Bushman, Richard. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. (1992) Butler, Jon, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. (1990) Hall, David, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. (1989) Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. (1989) Lambert, Frank, Inventing the Great Awakening. (2000) Morgan, Edmund S., The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. (1958) Morgan, Edmund S., Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan idea. (1965) Norton, Mary Beth, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. (2002) Rutman, Darrett, American Puritanism, Faith and Practice. (1970) Stout, Harry, Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. (1991) Winship, Michael P. Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641. (20040 3 SOCIAL AND GENDER HISTORY Bushman, Richard, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690–1765. (1967) Demos, John, A Little Commonwealth; Family Life in Plymouth Colony (1970) Goodfriend, Joyce, Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664–1730 (1992) James A. Henretta, “Families and Farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America” WMQ 35 (1978) 3-32 Lemon, James, The Best Poor Man’s Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania. (1976) Levy, Barry, Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. (1988) Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town, The First One Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts,1636-1736. (1970) Smith, Billy G. The Lower Sort: Laboring People in Philadelphia, 1750-1800. (1990) Ulrich, Laurel. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. (1980) IMPERIAL RELATIONS Greene, Jack P. Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788. (1986) Griffin, Patrick. American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier. (2008) Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. (2008) Peter Charles Hoffer, The Great New York Conspiracy: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law. (2003) Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. (1998) 4 Merrell, James. Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier. (2000 McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The economy of British America, 1607-1789. (1985) Purdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. (1998) Dan Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse. (1992) Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. (2007) Usner, Daniel. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783. (1992) White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. (1991) REVOLUTION (1760S AND 1770S) Anderson, Fred. The Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in North America, 1754-1766. (2001) Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. (1968) Breen, T. H., American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. (2011) Breen, T. H., The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence. (2004) Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. (rev. ed. 2003) Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. (1975) Gross, Robert, Minutemen and their World. (1976) Holton, Woody, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. (1999) Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. (1982) 5 Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. (1998) Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. (1974) Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. (1979) Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783. (1979) Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. (1993) EARLY REPUBLIC (1780S AND 1790S) Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s. (1984) Cornell, Saul, The Other Founders. (1999) Davidson, Cathy, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. (1987, 2004) Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. (1980) Holton, Woody, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. (2007) McCoy, Drew, Elusive Republic. (1996) Norton, Mary Beth, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. (1980) Taylor, Alan, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. (1996) Waldstreicher, David, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820. (1997) Wood, Gordon. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. (1969) Young, Alfred. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. (2000) 6 .