COLONIAL/REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

 

COLONIAL SOCIETY & CULTURE

 

Economics:

Bailyn, Bernard, and Lotte Bailyn. Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714 (1959).

Beeman, Richard R. The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of

          Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (1984).

Berlin, Ira.  Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North

          America (1998).

Brock, Leslie V. The Currency of the American Colonies, 1700-1764: A Study in

          Colonial Finance and Imperial Relations (1975).

Carroll, Charles F. The Timber Economy of Puritan New England (1973).

Clemens, Paul G.E. The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore:

          From Tobacco to Grain (1980).

Coughtry, Charles F. The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the American

          Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (1981).

Cray, Robert E., Jr. Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural

          Environs (1988).

Ekirch, A. Roger. Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to

          the Colonies, 1718-1775 (1987).

Galenson, David W. White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis

          (1981).

_______. Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English

          America (1986).

Goldenberg, Joseph A. Shipbuilding in Colonial America (1976).

Heyrman, Christine Leigh.  Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of

          Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 (1984).

Jordan, Winthrop.  White Over Black:  American Attitudes Towards the Negro,

          1550-1812 (1968).

Kulikoff, Allan.  Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in

          the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (1986).

Lemon, James T. The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early

          Southeastern Pennsylvania (1972).

Lindebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves,

          Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000).

Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial

          South Carolina (1981).

McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British North

          America, 1607-1789 (1985).

Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century

          Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

Morris, Richard B. Government and Labor in Early America (1946).

Nash, Gary.  Red, Black, and White:  The Peoples of Early America (1982).

Nettels, Curtis P. The Money Supply of the American Colonies Before 1720

          (1934).

_______. The Roots of American Civilization: A History of American Colonial

          Life (1963).

Pares, Richard. Yankees and Creoles: The Trade Between North America and the

          West Indies Before the Revolution (1956).

Perkins, Edward J. The Economy of Colonial America (1988).

Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen,

          Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987).

Salinger, Sharon V. "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured

          Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (1987).

Schumacher, Max George. The Northern Farmer and His Markets During the

          Colonial Period (1975).

Schweitzer, Mary M. Custom and Contract: Household, Government and the

          Economy in Colonial Pennsylvania (1987).

Silver, Timothy.  A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves

          in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800 (1990).

Smith, Abbot Emerson. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor

          in Colonial America (1947).

Steele, Ian K. The English Atlantic, 1675-1740: An Exploration of Communication

          and Community (1986).

Usner, Daniel H.  Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy:

          The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (1992). 

Walton, Gary M. and James F. Shepherd. The Economic Rise of Early America

          (1979).

Wood, Peter.  Black Majority: Negores in Colonial South Carolina from 1670

          through the Stono Rebellion (1974).

 

Family, & Children:

Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

          (1974).

Demos, John. Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American

          History (1986).

Fabend, Firth Harvey. A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 (1989).

Fischer, David Hackett. Growing Old in America (1977).

Flaherty, David H. Privacy in Colonial New England (1972).

Fox, Vivian C. and Martin H. Quitt. Loving, Parenting, and Dying: The Family

          Cycle in England and America, Past and Present (1980).

Frost, J. William. The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the

          Society of Friends (1973).

Gregg Slater, Peter. Children in the New England Mind in Death and in Life

          (1977).

Greven, Philip J. Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial

          Andover, Massachusetts (1970).

_______. The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child Rearing, Religious

          Experience, and the Self in Early America (1977).

Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (1976).

Hoffer, Peter, and N.E.H. Hull. Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and

          New England, 1588-1803 (1981).

Jedrey, Christopher. The World of John Cleaveland: Family and Community in

          Eighteenth-Century New England (1979).

Morgan, Edmund S. Virginians at Home: Family Life in Eighteenth Century New

          England (1966).

Russo, David J. Families and Communities: A New View of American History

          (1974).

Scholten, Catherine M. Childbearing in American Society: 1650-1850 (1985).

Smith, Daniel Blake. Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth

          Century Chesapeake Society (1980).

Thompson, Roger. Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County,

          1649-1699 (1986).

 

Social Structure:

Brown, Robert E. Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts,

          1691-1780 (1955).

Brown, Robert E., and B. Katherine Brown. Virginia, 1705-1786: Aristocracy or

          Democracy? (1964).

Bullock, Stephen C. Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the American

          Social Order, 1730-1840. (1996).

Bushman, Richard L. From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in

          Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967).

Ferguson, Leland. Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America,

          1650-1800 (1992).

Fischer, David Hackett.  Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989).

Greene, Jack P. Landon Carter: An Inquiry into the Personal Values and Social

          Imperatives of the Eighteenth Century Virginia Gentry (1965).

Hall, Timothy D. Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial

          American Religious World (1994).

Henretta, James E. The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815: An

          Interdisciplinary Analysis (1973).

Henretta, James E., and Gregory H. Nobles. Evolution and Revolution: American

          Society, 1600-1820 (1987).

Innes, Stephen. Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth

          Century Springfield (1983).

Lockridge, Kenneth A. The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-

          1744 (1987).

Piersen, William D. Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American

          Subculture in Eighteenth Century New England (1988).

Rutman, Darrett B., and Anita H. Rutman. A Place in Time: Middlesex County,

          Virginia, 1650-1750 (1984).

Sobel, Mechal.  The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in

          Eighteenth-Century Virginia (1987).

Zemsky, Robert. Merchants, Farmers and River Gods: An Essay on Eighteenth

          Century American Politics (1971).

 

Women:

Benson, Mary Sumer. Women in Eighteenth Century America: A Study of Opinion

          and Social Usage (1966).

Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Winches and Anxious Patriarchs:  Gender,

          Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996).

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes,  Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in

          Connecticut, 1639-1789 (1995).

Dexter, Elizabeth A. Colonial Women of Affairs: Women in Business and the

          Professions in America Before 1776 (1931).

Hull, N.E.H. Female Felons: Women and Serious Crime in Colonial Massachusetts

          (1987).

Jensen, Joan M. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850

          (1986).

Juster, Susan.  Disorderly Women:  Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in

          Revolutionary New England, 1650-1750 (1982).

Katz, Esther, and Anita Rapone. Women's Experience in America: An Historical

          Anthology (1980).

Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary

          America (1980).

Koehler, Lyle. A Search for Power: "The Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth Century

          New England (1980).

Lerner, Gerda. The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History (1979).

Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of

          American Women, 1750-1850 (1980).

Slamon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986).

Shammas, Carole, and Marylynn Salmon, and M. Dahlin. Inheritance in America:

          From Colonial Times to the Present (1987).

Speth, Linda E., and Alison Duncan Hirsch. Women, Family, and Community in

          Colonial America: Two Perspectives (1983).

Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (1938).

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Images and Reality in the Lives of Women

          in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (1982).

 

Great Awakening:

Bumstead, J.M., and John Van de Wetering.  What Must I Do to Be Saved?  The

          Great Awakening in Colonial America (1976).

Bushman, Richard L. From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in

          Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967).

Bonomi, Patricia.  Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in

          Colonial America (1986).

Gaustad, Edwin S. The Great Awakening in New England (1957).

Goen, C.C. Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740-1800 (1962).

Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in

          Early New England (1989).

Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to

          the Revolution (1966).

Hoffman, Ronald and Peter J. Albert, eds. Religion in a Revolutionary Age (1994).

Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982).

Juster, Susan.  Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in

          Revolutionary New England (1994).

Lambert, Frank J. Pedlar in Divinity: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-

          1770 (1994).

Lovejoy, David S. Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution

          (1985).

Stout, Harry S. The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in

          Colonial New England (1986).

Tracy, Patricia J. Jonathan Edwards, pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth-

          Century Northampton (1979).

Ward, W.R. The Protestant Evangelical Awakening (1992).

Westerkamp, Marilyn. Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great

          Awakening, 1625-1760 (1988).

Wood, Betty, and Sylvia Frey. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism

          in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (1998).

Zuckerman, Michael. Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century

          (1970).