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Goldberg, Dror, “The Massachusetts Paper Money of 1690,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Dec. 2009), 1092–1106.

Horton, Shaun, “Of Pastors and Petticoats: Humor and Authority in Puritan New England,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Dec. 2009), 608–36.

Mellen, Roger P., “Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of Newspaper Competition in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia,” Journalism History, 35 (Fall 2009), 151–61.

Nelson, William E., “The Height of Sophistication: Law and Professionalism in the City-State of Charleston, South Carolina, 1670–1775,” South Carolina Law Review, 61 (Fall 2009), 1–62.

Skowronek, Russell K., M. James Blackman, and Ronald L. Bishop, “Locally-Made or Imported? Identifying Ceramic Composition Variation in the San Francisco Presidio Jurisdiction,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 4, 2009), 1–21.

Tucker, Gene Rhea, “La Salle Lands in Texas: La Salle and the Historians,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (Winter 2010), 40–58.

 

Khromykh, A. S., “Russkaia kolonizatsiia Sibiri poslednei trety XVI–pervoi chetverti XVIII veka v svete teorii frontira” (Russian colonization of Siberia from the last third of the 16th century to the first quarter of the 18th century in light of frontier theory) (Tomsk State University, Russia, 2008). In Russian.

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.

 

Artemov, V. V., Russkaia Amerika (Russian America). (Moscow: Izdatel’skii dom “Rubezhi–XXI”, 2009. 704 pp. isbn 978-5-347-00007-4.) In Russian.

Cohen, Matt, The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. x, 237 pp. Cloth, $67.50, isbn 978-0-8166-6097-1. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-8166-6098-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Cottret, Bernard, et al., eds., Naissance de l’Amérique du Nord: Les actes fondateurs, 1607–1776 (Birth of North America: The founding act, 1607–1776). (Paris: Editions Les Indes Savantes, 2008. 204 pp. €25,00, isbn 978-2-84654-200-5.) In French.

Manegold, C. S., Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xxiv, 317 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-691-13152-8.)

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