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Alonso Baquer, Mariano, “En busca del río Colorado: La exploracíon de Antonio María de Rivera desde Santa Fe, año 1765” (In search of the Colorado River: The exploration from Santa Fe by Antonio María Rivera in the year 1765), Revista de Historia Militar (Madrid) (no. 97, 2005), 217–49. In Spanish.

Cogswell, Thomas, “‘In the Power of the State’: Mr. Anys’s Project and the Tobacco Colonies, 1626–1628,” English Historical Review (Oxford), 123 (Feb. 2008), 35–64.

Desan, Christine, “From Blood to Profit: Making Money in the Practice and Imagery of Early America,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 26–46.

Flagler, Edward K., “Comercio y ferias de trueque: España y los indios de Nuevo México” (Trade and barter fairs: Spain and the Indians of New Mexico), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid), 37 (no. 1, 2007), 67–90. In Spanish.

Flagler, Edward K., “Relaciones interétnicas: Los indios zuñi de Nuevo México y los españoles” (Interethnic relations: The Zuñi Indians of New Mexico and the Spaniards), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 57–73. In Spanish.

Furstenberg, François, “The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History,” American Historical Review, 113 (June 2008), 647–77.

Haefeli, Evan, “A Scandalous Minister in a Divided Community: Ulster County in Leisler’s Rebellion, 1689–1691,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 357–89.

Ivey, James E., “A Reconsideration of the Survey of the Villa de San Fernando de Béxar in 1731,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 251–81.

Kashay, Jennifer Fish, “Competing Imperialisms and Hawaiian Authority: The Cannonading of Lahaina in 1827,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Aug. 2008), 369–90.

Woodward, Walter W., “Captain John Smith and the Campaign for New England: A Study in Early Modern Identity and Promotion,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 91–125.

 

Crouch, Christian Ayne, “Imperfect Reflections: New France’s Use of Indigenous Violence and the Crisis of French Empire during the Seven Years’ War, 1754–1760” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3284251.

Crutchfield, Lisa Laurel, “‘Indispensably Necessary’: Cultural Brokers on the Georgia Frontier, 1733–1765” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3282509.

Hinton, Michele M., “Law and Society: Gender, Class, and Race in the Prosecution of Bastardy in Colonial Maryland, 1653–1783” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3280207.

Jeffries, James Bradford, “Denying Religion: French and Native American Spiritual Crossroads in Seventeenth-Century New France” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3285830.

Spivey, Jessica R. S., “Red Rat and the Maker: British American and Native American Exchange in the Colonial Southeast” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288536.

 

Games, Alison, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 381 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-533554-5.)

Powell, Philip Wayne, Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xvi, 210 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4576-9.) Originally published in 1971.

Skinner, Claiborne A., The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 202 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8837-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8838-0.)

Yerxa, Donald A., ed., Recent Themes in Early American History: Historians in Conversation. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. x, 152 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-764-1. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-57003-765-8.)

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