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Cohen, Joanna, “‘The Right to Purchase Is as Free as the Right to Sell’: Defining Consumers as Citizens in the Auction-House Conflicts of the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Spring 2010), 25–62.

Filimonova, M. A., “‘The sixth pillar’: Ratifikatsiia konstitutsii 1787 g. v Massachusetse” (“The sixth pillar”: The ratification of the Constitution of 1787 in Massachusetts), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 21–34. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.

Filimonova, M. A., “Ottsy-osnovateli kak zurnalisty” (The founding fathers as journalists), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 41–72. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.

Gilje, Paul A., “‘Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights’: The Rhetoric of the War of 1812,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Spring 2010), 1–23.

Howell, William Huntting, “Starving Memory: Joseph Plumb Martin Un-tells the Story of the American Revolution,” Common-Place, 10 (Jan. 2010), http://www.common-place.org.

Korotkova, S. A., “Flag Betsi Ross” (Betsy Ross’s flag), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 15–20. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.

Krasnov, N. A., “Bor’ba v Kontinantal’nom kongresse SShA po voprosam vneshnei politiki v 1778–1779 gg.” (The struggle in the Continental Congress of the United States on the problems of foreign policy, 1778–1779), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 6, 2009), 121–27. In Russian.

Krasnov, N. A., “Frantsuzskaia diplomatiia v SShA vo vremia voiny za nezavisimost: 1775–1783 gody” (French diplomacy and the United States in the days of the War for Independence: 1775–1783), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 3, 2009), 65–79. In Russian.

Maass, John R., “‘Too Grievous for a People to Bear’: Impressment and Conscription in Revolutionary North Carolina,” Journal of Military History, 73 (Oct. 2009), 1091–115.

 

Barbier, Brooke C., “Daughters of Liberty: Young Women’s Culture in Early National Boston” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3349635.

Barzilay, Karen Northrop, “Fifty Gentlemen Total Strangers: A Portrait of the First Continental Congress” (College of William and Mary, 2009). Order No. DA3353201.

Bottiger, Patrick Gary, “Two Towns, Multiple Places: Race and Identity on the Early Republic’s Frontier” (University of Oklahoma, 2009). Order No. DA3352819.

Breidenstein, Rychie Lynn, “‘That Thy House May Be Filled’: A Study of Earliest American Methodist Lay Worship Leaders between 1766 and 1773 Philip Embury, Robert Strawbridge, Joseph Pilmore and Francis Asbury” (Drew University, 2009). Order No. DA3351881.

Fischer, John Ryan, “Domesticating the Pacific Frontier: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3350726.

Haberman, Robb K, “Periodical Publics: Magzines and Literary networks in Post-Revolutionary America” (University of Connecticut, 2009). Order No. DA3351334.

Harrison, Candice L., “The Contest of Exchange: Space, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770–1859” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3344471.

Oakes, John Stephen, “‘Conservative Revolutionaries’–A Study of the Religious and Political Thought of John Wise, Jonathan Mayhew, Andrew Eliot, and Charles Chauncey” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR46819.

 

Brunsman, Denver, and Joel Stone, eds., Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760–1805. (Detroit: Detroit Historical Society, 2009. viii, 191 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-615-32114-1.)

Cohen, Sheldon S., Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy: Privateer, Patriot, Pioneer. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xxii, 232 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3433-1.)

Stauber, Leland G., The American Revolution: A Grand Mistake. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2010. 292 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-59102-763-8.)

 

Kornblith, Gary J., Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776–1821. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. xiv, 165 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7425-5095-7. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5096-4.)

Sypher, Francis J., Jr., ed., Liber A: 1628–1700 of the Collegiate Churches of New York. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009. lxviii, 372 pp. $49.00, isbn 978-0-8028-6509-0.)

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