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Appleby, Joyce, “Money, Money, Money: The Seventeenth-Century Effort to Get an Intellectual Grasp on This Slippery Medium of Trade,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Blosser, Jacob M., “Constructing Modernity: Historical Imagery and Religious Identity in Charleston’s Great Awakening,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (Oct. 2005), 212–34.

Cox, Richard J., “Public Memory Meets Archival Memory: The Interpretation of Williamsburg’s Secretary’s Office,” American Archivist, 68 (Fall–Winter 2005), 279–96.

Haefeli, Evan, “The Revolt of the Long Swede: Transatlantic Hopes and Fears on the Delaware, 1669,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (April 2006), 137–80.

Hardwick, Kevin R., “Narratives of Villainy and Virtue: Governor Francis Nicholson and the Character of the Good Ruler in Early Virginia,” Journal of Southern History, 72 (Feb. 2006), 39–74.

Latner, Richard, “‘Here Are No Newters’: Witchcraft and Religious Discord in Salem Village and Andover,” New England Quarterly, 79 (March 2006), 92–122.

Lee, Young Hyo, “Virginia Nongjangju eui llsangsaengwhal: William Byrd II eui Sameul Jungsimeuro” (The daily life of Virginia planters, as revealed in the life of William Byrd II), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 21 (May 2005), 1–34. In Korean.

Mayer, Holly A., “From Forts to Families: Following the Army into Western Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130 (Jan. 2006), 5–43.

McDonnell, Michael A., “Paths Not Yet Taken, Voices Not Yet Heard: Rethinking Atlantic History,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 45–61. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)

Perreault, Melanie, “‘To Fear and to Love Us’: Intercultural Violence in the English Atlantic,” Journal of World History, 17 (March 2006), 71–93.

Peterson, Mark, “Big Money Comes to Boston: The Curious History of the Pine Tree Shilling,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Salvucci, Linda K., “Atlantic Intersections: Early American Commerce and the Rise of the Spanish West Indies (Cuba),” Business History Review, 79 (Winter 2005), 781–809.

Sweet, Julie Anne, “‘The Excellency and Advantage of Doing Good’: Thoughts on the Anniversary Sermons Preached before the Trustees of Georgia, 1731–1750,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2006), 1–34.

Thompson, Peter, “The Thief, the Householder, and the Commons: Languages of Class in Seventeenth-Century Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (April 2006), 253–80.

Truxes, Thomas M., “Transnational Trade in the Wartime North Atlantic: The Voyage of the Snow Recovery,” Business History Review, 79 (Winter 2005), 751–80.

Valeri, Mark, “The Rise of Usury in Early New England: Commerce, Bills of Exchange, and the Morality of Money,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Wright, Robert E., “Currency Unions Past and Present: Units of Account, Constitutions, and Media of Exchange,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

 

Alessi, Joseph P., “Settling America: Indians, Euroamericans, and the Establishment of Frontier Towns, 1600–1830” (Saint Louis University, 2005). Order No. DA3185040.

Boulware, Tyler W., “‘Rim of the gap’: Negotiating Identity on the Southern Colonial Frontier” (University of South Carolina, 2005). Order No. DA3181932.

Runyon, Shane Alan, “Border and Rumors: The Georgia Frontier in the Atlantic World” (University of Florida, 2005). Order No. DA3178032.

Stanwood, Owen Charles, “Creating the Common Enemy: Catholics, Indians, and the Politics of Fear in Imperial North America, 1678–1700” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177813.

 

Castillo, Susan, Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500–1786: Performing America. (London: Routledge, 2006. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $97.00, isbn 0-415-31606-5. Paper, $33.95, isbn 0-415-31607-3.)

Conforti, Joseph A., Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 236 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8018-8253-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8018-8254-0.)

Harpster, Jack, John Odgen, The Pilgrim (1609–1682): A Man of More Than Ordinary Mark. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006. 244 pp. $52.50, isbn 0-8386-4104-0.)

Polk, William R., The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution. (New York: HarperCollins, 2006. xxiv, 392 pp. $25.95, isbn 0-06-075090-1.)

Russell, David Lee, Oglethorpe and Colonial Georgia: A History, 1733–1783. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. x, 220 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-7864-2233-5.)

Vickers, Daniel, ed., A Companion to Colonial America. (Malden: Blackwell, 2006. xiv, 562 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 1-4051-4985-X.) Originally published in 2003.

 

Waddell, Louis M., ed., “Thomas and Richard Penn Return Albany Purchase Land to the Six Nations: The Power of Attorney of November 7, 1757,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Spring 2005), 229–40.

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