Recent Scholarship
Colonial
Bellin, Joshua David, “John Eliot’s Playing Indian,” Early American Literature, 42 (March 2007), 1–30.
Ford, Lisa, “Empire and Order on the Colonial Frontiers of Georgia and New South Wales,” Itinerario (Leiden), 30 (no. 3, 2006), 95–113.
Longmore, Paul K., “‘Good English without Idiom or Tone’: The Colonial Origins of American Speech,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Spring 2007), 513–42.
Martín Rodríguez, Manuel, “La Historia de la Nueva Mexico de Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá: recepción crítica (con nuevos datos biográficos de su autor)” (The history of New Mexico by Caspar Perez de Villagra: Its critical reception [with new biographical data on its author]), in El humanismo español, su proyección en América y Canarias en la época del humanismo (Spanish humanism, its projection in America and the Canary Islands in the era of humanism), ed. Antonio María Martín Rodríguez and Germán Santana Henríquez, 189–253. (Las Palmas: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2006. isbn 8-496-71835-2.) In Spanish.
Parmenter, Jon, and Mark Power Robison, “The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empire: Iroquois and Acadians between the French and British in North America, 1744–1760,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 167–206.
Rasmussen, Barbara, “Anarchy and Enterprise on the Imperial Frontier: Washington, Dunmore, Logan, and Land in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio Valley,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Winter 2006), 1–26. Heavily illustrated.
Sweet, Julie Anne, “The British Sailors’ Advocate: James Oglethorpe’s First Philanthropic Venture,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 1–27.
Warren, Wendy Anne, “‘The Cause of Her Grief’: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England,” Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1031–49.
Eden, Jason Edward, “Negotiating a New Religious World: English Missionaries and American Indians in Colonial Southeastern Massachusetts” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3219990.
Spady, James O’Neil, “‘Like the spider from the rose’: Colonial Knowledge Competition and the Origins of Non-Elite Education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s–1820s” (College of William and Mary, 2006). Order No. DA3222150.
Weglian, Emily Jane, “Colonial Transformations of Death and Burial: Mortuary Analysis in North American Colonial Contexts” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220049.
Castex, Jean-Claude, Dictionnaire des batailles terrestres franco-anglaises de la Guerre de Sept Ans (Dictionary of the French-British land battles of the Seven-Years War). (Paris: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2006. 624 pp. $55.00, isbn 2-763-78334-1.) In French.
Codignola, Luca, Colombo e altri navigatori (Columbus and other navigators). (Genoa: Fratelli Frilli Editori, 2007. 223 pp. €14.00, isbn 978-88-7563-266-3.) In Italian.
Harland-Jacobs, Jessica L., Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717–1927. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 384 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3088-8.)
Kelly, James C., and Barbara Clark Smith, Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings. (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2007. 191 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-58834-241-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Marchand, Philip, Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xx, 459 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99417-4.)
Martín Rodríguez, Antonio María, and Germán Santana Henríquez, eds., El humanismo español, su proyección en América y Canarias en la época del humanismo (Spanish humanism, its projection in America and the Canary Islands in the era of humanism). (Las Palmas: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2006. isbn 8-496-71835-2.) In Spanish.
McCartney, Martha W., Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607–1635: A Biographical Dictionary. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007. 833 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8063-1774-8.)
Sloan, Kim, A New World: England’s First View of America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 256 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3125-0. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5825-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Woolley, Benjamin, Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America. (New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xx, 469 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-06-009056-2.)
Cooper, James F., and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds., The Colonial Church Records of the First Church of Reading (Wakefield) and the First Church of Rumney Marsh (Revere). (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2006. 371 pp. $49.50, isbn 978-0-9620737-7-9.)
Hariot, Thomas, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: The 1590 Theodor de Bry Latin Edition. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xviii, 189 pp. Cloth, $200.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2604-9. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2605-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Philbrick, Nathaniel, and Thomas Philbrick, eds., The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xx, 312 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-310498-8.)
Thompson, John M., ed., The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography. (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2007. xxiv, 229 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-1-4262-0055-7.)
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