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Aoyagi, Kaori, “Tomasu Sekka to shukyo haken keikaku: 18 seiki nakaba no Amerika shokuminchi niokeru Ingurando Kokkyo-kai” (Thomas Secker and a plan to send a bishop to America: The Anglican church in the mid-eighteenth-century American colonies), Seiyo Shigaku (Osaka), 227 (2007), 44–63. In Japanese.

Bassett, Lynne Z., “The Sober People of Hadley: Sumptuary Legislation and Clothing in Hadley Men’s Probate Inventories, 1663–1731,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 191–210. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Campbell, William J., “An Adverse Patron: Land, Trade, and George Croghan,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Spring 2009), 117–40.

Din, Gilbert C., “Empires Too Far: The Demographic Limitations of Three Imperial Powers in the Eighteenth-Century Mississippi Valley,” Louisiana History, 50 (Summer 2009), 261–92.

Falk, Cynthia G., “Forts, Rum, Slaves, and the Herkimer’s Rise to Power in the Mohawk Valley,” New York History, 89 (Summer 2008), 221–34.

Goetz, Rebecca Anne, “Rethinking the ‘Unthinking Decision’: Old Questions and New Problems in the History of Slavery and Race in the Colonial South,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 599–612.

Grigg, John A., “‘How This Shall Be Brought About’: The Development of the sspck’s American Policy,” Itinerario (Leiden), 32 (no. 3, 2008), 43–60.

Hood, J. Edward, and Rita Reinke, “The Fortification of Hadley in the Seventeenth Century,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 68–90. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Ingram, Daniel, “Anxious Hospitality: Indian ‘Loitering’ at Fort Allen, 1756–1761,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (July 2009), 221–53.

Koike, Kota, “19 seiki shoto no Amerika Gasshuikoku niyoru eiryo Nishi-Indo Shokuminchi tono chokusetsu boeki saikai” (The resumption of direct trade between the United States and the British West Indies: A consideration of the American Navigation Act and the Colonial Trade Act), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 7 (2008), 79–90. In Japanese.

Marshall, Bridget M., and Brian W. Ogilvie, “‘There Shall Be a Wonder in Hadley!’: Mary Webster’s ‘Hideous Witchcraft,’” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 135–53. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Marvin, Carolyn, “The Hanging of Ruth Blay, December 30, 1789: Separating Fact from Fiction,” Historical New Hampshire, 63 (Spring 2009), 3–21.

Palmer, Daryl W., “Coronado and Aesop: Fable and Violence on the Sixteenth-Century Plains,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Spring 2009), 129–40.

Phung, Thao T., Julia A. King, and Douglas H. Ubelaker, “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Excessive Animal Protein: The Question of an Adequate Diet in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake,” Historical Archaeology, 43 (no. 2, 2009), 61–82.

Ross, John F., “Wilderness Ordeal,” American Heritage, 59 (Summer 2009), 32–43.

Seymour, Deni J., “Evaluating Eyewitness Accounts of Native Peoples along the Coronado Trail from the International Border to Cíbola,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Summer 2009), 399–435.

Stanley, Alison, “‘To Speak with Other Tongues’: Linguistics, Colonialism, and Identity in 17th Century New England,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (March 2009), 1–17.

de la Teja, Jesus, “‘Buena gana tenía de ir a jugar’: The Recreational World of Early San Antonio, Texas, 1718–1845,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (June 2009), 889–905.

Valeri, Mark, “Providence in the Life of John Hull: Puritanism and Commerce in Massachusetts Bay, 1650–1680,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 118 (part 1, 2008), 55–116.

 

Gollannek, Eric Frederick, “‘Empire Follows Art’: Exchange and the Sensory Worlds of Empire in Britain and Its Colonies, 1740–1775” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3329779.

Heinz, Helen A., “‘We Are All as One Fish in the Sea . . .’: Catholicism in Protestant Pennsylvania, 1730–1790” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326338.

Isaki, Bianca, “A Decolonial Archive: The Historical Space of Asian Settler Politics in a Time of Hawaiian Nationhood” (University of Hawai‘i, 2008). Order No. DA3326443.

Muehlbauer, Matthew S., “Justice and Just War: A History of Early New England, 1630–1655” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326359.

Rodgers, Sharon Yvonne, “Merchants and Markets in Provincial Boston, 1690–1764” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3324316.

Sutto, Antoinette Patricia, “Built upon Smoke: Politics and Political Culture in Maryland, 1630–1690” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3333866.

Weimer, Adrian Chastain, “Protestant Sainthood: Martyrdom and the Meaning of Sanctity in Early New England” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3325847.

Witzig, Fred, “The Great Anti-Awakening: Anti-revivalism in Philadelphia and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1739–1745” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3319836.

 

Davis, Kenneth C., America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation. (New York: Collins, 2008. xiv, 270 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-0-06-111818-0. Paper, $15.99, isbn 978-0-06-111819-7.)

Field, Jonathan Beecher, Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2009. xviii, 154 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-1-58465-774-3. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-821-4.)

Mancall, Peter C., Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson; A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic. (New York: Basic, 2009. 303 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-465-00511-6.)

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