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Dierks, Konstantin, “Letters Writing, Stationery Supplies, and Consumer Modernity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” Early American Literature, 41 (Nov. 2006), 473–94.

Evans, Chris, “How Sweden Went Global and Carolina Got Its Hoes: An Atlantic Tale,” Common-Place, 7 (Oct. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Glover, Jeffrey, “Wunnaumwáyean: Roger Williams, English Credibility, and the Colonial Land Market,” Early American Literature, 41 (Nov. 2006), 429–53.

Weber, David J., “Santa Bárbara’s Presidio in Imperial Perspective: Citadel and Theater Set,” Boletín, 23 (no. 1, 2006), 4–21.

Wertheimer, Eric, “Insurance in Colonial America: The Birth of Underwriting Society,” Common-Place, 7 (Oct. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

 

Robinson, Martha K., “‘They decrease in numbers daily’: English and Colonial Perceptions of Indian Disease in Early America” (University of Southern California, 2005). Order No. DA3196883.

 

Borneman, Walter R., The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America. (New York: HarperCollins, 2006. xxiv, 360 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-06-076184-4.)

Kelso, William M., Jamestown: The Buried Truth. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xiv, 238 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2563-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Mallios, Seth, The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xiv, 150 pp. Cloth, $44.75, isbn 978-0-8173-1516-0. Paper, $21.50, isbn 978-0-8173-5336-0.)

Vidal, Cécile, and Gilles Harvard, Histoire de l’Amérique francaise (History of French America). (Paris: Champs Flammarion, 2006. 731 pp. Paper, €12,50, isbn 2-08-080121-X.) In French.

 

Brown, Alan K., ed., “Three Letters from the Pen of Fray Pedro Font,” Boletín, 23 (no. 1, 2006), 85–118.

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