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Revolutionary and Early National

Dreisbach, Daniel L., “The ‘Vine and Fig Tree’ in George Washington’s Letters: Reflections on a Biblical Motif in the Literature of the American Founding Era,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 76 (Sept. 2007), 299–326.

Filimonova, M. A., “Terririal’naia ekspansiia SShA na Severo-Zapade i natsionalisty, 1780-e gody” (The U.S. expansion into the Northwest Territory and the nationalists [1780s]), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow), 1 (2007), 74–89. In Russian.

Ishikawa, Takafumi, “Amerika tandoku-shugi gaiko no rekishiteki kigen” (The historical origin of American unilateralism), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 40 (2006), 139–57. In Japanese.

Ishikawa, Takafumi, “Jon Adamuzu no chuo seihu ron” (The theory of central government of John Adams, part 3), Hokudai Hogaku Ronshu (Sapporo), 56 (no. 5, 2006), 2041–98. In Japanese.

Ishikawa, Takafumi, “Jon Adamuzu no chuo seihu ron” (The theory of central government of John Adams, part 4), Hokudai Hogaku Ronshu (Sapporo), 56 (no. 6, 2006), 2535–90. In Japanese.

Ishikawa, Takafumi, “Jon Adamuzu no chuo seihu ron” (The theory of central government of John Adams, part 5), Hokudai Hogaku Ronshu (Sapporo), 57 (no. 1, 2007), 113–77. In Japanese.

Larkin, Edward, “What Is a Loyalist? The American Revolution as Civil War,” Common-Place, 8 (Oct. 2007), http://www.common-place.org.

O’Neill, Daniel I., “John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution and Democracy,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 68 (July 2007), 451–76.

Tamiya, Haruhiko, “Amerika kenkokuki ni okeru kyowashugi shiso ni tsuite no ichi kosatsu” (Modern republicanism in the early republic), Shigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo) (no. 252, 2006), 60–81. In Japanese.

 

Bell, Richard James, “Do Not Despair: The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1780–1840” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3245108.

Fichter, James Robert, “The United States, Britain, and the East Indies, 1773–1815” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3245135.

Garrison, Denise Rose, “Revolutionary Men: Gender and the War for Independence, 1760–1825” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3249748.

Hoffman, Susan A., “The Ties That Bind: Consumerism, Gender, and the Family in Colonial and Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1683–1783” (Lehigh University, 2006). Order No. DA3248143.

Maguire, Susan E., “Brother Jonathan Goes to War: The Archaeology of National Identity along Political Borders” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3244270.

 

Bailey, Jeremy D., Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-86831-0.)

Dunmore, John, Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-François de la Pérouse. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2007. 292 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-60223-002-6.)

Gibbs, Joseph, Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xviii, 211 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-693-4.)

Latimer, Jon, 1812: War with America. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. xviii, 637 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-674-02584-4.)

 

Hogan, Margaret A., and C. James Taylor, eds., My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. xx, 508 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-674-02606-3.)

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