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Bolkhovitinov, N. N., “Kak sozdavalas’ amerikanskaia natsiia (angliiskie kolonii v Severnoi Amerike v XVII–XVIII vekakh)” (How the American nation was created [British colonies in North America in the 17th–18th centuries]), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2004), 29–32.

Crosby, Harry W., “Defining and Manning ‘The Portolá Expedition,’” Boletín, 22 (no. 2, 2005), 4–21.

Grinev, Andrei V., “The Gold of Russian America: The Gold Rush That Didn’t Happen,” Alaska History, 21 (Spring 2006), 15–36.

Hendricks, Rick, and Gerald Mandell, “Fernando de Valdés Llanos: Asturian Merchant of Parral, 1639–1651,” New Mexico Historical Review, 81 (Spring 2006), 141–73.

Kottman, Karl, “Pablo Tac‘s Vocal Remembrance of ‘Californian,’” Boletín, 22 (no. 2, 2005), 22–52.

Leumas, Emilie, “Ties That Bind: The Family, Social, and Business Associations of the Insurrectionists of 1768,” Louisiana History, 47 (Spring 2006), 183–202.

McConville, Brendan, “Of Spoons and Empires: The Political Uses of Silver in Provincial New York,” Common-Place, 6 (July 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Molodin, A. V., “Poselenie russkoi kolonii v Severnoi Amerike kontsa XVIII–nachala XIX v. (zhilaia i obshchestvennaia zastroika)” (Russian colonial settlements in North America in the late 18th–early 19th centuries [residential and public buildings]), Izvestiia vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenii. Stroitel’stvo (Novosibirsk) (no. 6, 2004), 96–104. In Russian.

Murphy, Nathan W., “Origins of Colonial Chesapeake Indentured Servants: American and English Sources,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 93 (March 2005), 5–24.

Nelson, William E., “The Utopian Legal Order of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630–1686,” American Journal of Legal History, 47 (April 2005), 183–230.

Peterson, Nancy Simons, “Died in a French Prison in 1757: Was This French and Indian War Captive Peter Randall of Preston, Connecticut?,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 93 (June 2005), 110–25.

Rogal, Samuel J., “William Stephens and John Wesley: ‘I cannot pretend to judge,’” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2006), 260–80.

Sogrin, V. V., “Aktual’nye voprosy izucheniia istorii SShA XVII–XVIII” (Pressing questions on the study of American 17th and 18th century history), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2004), 11–28. In Russian.

Winship, Michael P., “Godly Republicanism and the Origins of the Massachusetts Polity,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (July 2006), 427–62.

Xiaode, Wang, “Yingguo dui Beimei zhimindide Zhongshangzhuyi zhengce jiqi yingxiang” (British mercantilist policies toward the thirteen colonies in North America and their consequences), Historical Research (Beijing) (no. 6, 2003), 124–33. In Chinese.

Yeh, Sarah E., “‘A Sink of all Filthiness’: Gender, Family, and Identity in the British Atlantic, 1688–1763,” Historian, 68 (Spring 2006), 66–88.

 

Olbertson, Kristin A., “Criminally Impolite: Speech Transgressions and Social Order in Massachusetts, 1690–1776” (University of Michigan, 2005). Order No. DA3186718.

 

Johnson, Odai, Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli’s Plaster. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. x, 322 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-1-4039-7100-5.)

McConville, Brendan, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xviii, 322 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3065-9.)

Meyers, Debra, and Melanie Perreault, eds., Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives. (Lanham: Lexington, 2006. xxv, 284 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1091-1. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7391-1092-8.)

Ranlet, Philip, Enemies of the Bay Colony: Puritan Massachusetts and Its Foes. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2006. xii, 332 pp. Paper, $44.00, isbn 978-0-7618-3486-1.) Second edition.

Wilson, Richard Guy, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, eds., Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. viii, 431 pp. $49.50, isbn 0-8139-2348-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

 

Haefeli, Evan, and Kevin Sweeney, eds., Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xxii, 298 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 1-55849-542-8. Paper, $22.95, isbn 1-55849-543-6.)

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