Recent Scholarship
Revolutionary and Early National
Alderson, Robert J., Jr., “Entangled Borderlands: The 1794 Projected French Invasion of Spanish East Florida and Atlantic History,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2009), 54–82.
Conger, Vivian Bruce, “There Is Graite Odds between a Mans Being at Home and a Broad: Deborah Read Franklin and the Eighteenth-Century Home,” Gender & History (Oxford), 21 (Nov. 2009), 592–607.
Engel, Stephen M., “Before the Countermajoritarian Difficulty: Regime Unity, Loyal Opposition, and Hostilities toward Judicial Authority in Early America,” Studies in American Political Development, 23 (Oct. 2009), 189–217.
Engels, Jeremy, “Uncivil Speech: Invective and the Rhetorics of Democracy in the Early Republic,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (Aug. 2009), 311–34.
Gabrielson, Teena, “James Madison’s Psychology of Public Opinion,” Political Research Quarterly, 62 (Sept. 2009), 431–44.
Holton, Woody, “Primitive Accumulation,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Fall 2009), 21–36.
Kihira, Eisaku, “Seiseisuru Amerika minshushugi” (American democracy generated: Modernity brought about by the revolution and the expanding republic), in Amerika minshushugi no kako to genzai (The past and present of American democracy), by Eisaku Kihira, 19–65. (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2008. 334 pp. ¥4,725, isbn 978-4-62305-140-3.) In Japanese.
Morris, Larry E., “The Mysterious Charles Courtin and the Early Missouri Fur Trade,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Oct. 2009), 21–39.
Muller, Edward K., “Was Pittsburgh’s Economic Destiny Set in 1815?,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 203–18.
Purcell, Fernando, “La Revolución Norteamericana y las tensiones interpretativas en su historiografía reciente” (The North American Revolution and its interpretative tensions in recent historiography), Revista de Historia Iberoamericana, 1 (2008), 50–65. In Spanish.
Russell, Charles D., “Islam as a Danger to Republican Virtue: Broadening Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Summer 2009), 250–75.
St. Jean, Wendy, “How the Chickasaws Saved the Cumberland Settlement in the 1790s,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Spring 2009), 2–19. Heavily illustrated.
Wada, Mitsuhiro, “Jôji Washinton no ‘teikoku’” (George Washington’s ‘empire’: A remark on the usage of the word ‘empire’ in the American revolutionary era), Nagoya daigaku bungakubu kenkyû ronshû shigaku, 54 (2008), 129–51. In Japanese.
Weintraub, Stanley, “No Exit but Victory: Britain and the American Colonies,” in Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, ed. Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, 13–23. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.)
Chiles, Katy Leigh, “Surprising Metamorphoses: Transformations of Race in Early American Literatures” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3331079.
Faber, Michael J., “Founding Expectations: American Politics and the Debate over the Constitution” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3337245.
Rao, Gautham, “The Creation of the American State: Customhouses, Law, and Commerce in the Age of Revolution” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338505.
Ross, Jason C., “The Declaration of Independence and the Crisis of American Identity: Identity, Authority, and Power in Anglo-American History and Historiography” (Georgetown University, 2008). Order No. DA3341587.
Smith, Robert F., “‘A Veritable . . . Arsenal’ of Manufacturing: Government Management of Weapons Production in the American Revolution” (Lehigh University, 2008). Order No. DA3341192.
Smith, Wayne Peter, “An Assessment of the Life, Theology, and Influence of the First American of American Methodism: Mr. William Watters” (University of South Africa, 2008).
Cho, Ji-Hyung, Daetongryungeui Tansaeng (The birth of the president). (Seoul: Sallim, 2008. 96 pp. Won 3,200, isbn 978-89-522-0820-0.) In Korean.
Greenstein, Fred I., Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. x, 165 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-691-13358-4.)
Kim, Hyung-Gon, George Washington. (Seoul: Sallim, 2009. 96 pp. Won 3,300, isbn 978-89-522-1113-2.) In Korean.
Paul, Joel Richard, Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution. (New York: Riverhead, 2009. 405 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59448-883-2.)
Shuler, Jack, Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xiv, 217 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-273-3.)
Unger, Harlow Giles, The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2009. xii, 388 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-306-81808-0.)
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