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Nathan Perl-Rosenthal


== Contact and Early Settlment ==

===European-Native Relations, Contact to Borderlands === 
*Cabeza de Vaca. Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca (2003)
*Haefeli, Evan and Kevin Sweeney. Captors and Captives (2003)
*Lepore, Jill. The Name of War (1998)
*Richter, Daniel. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: Change and Persistence on the Iroquois Frontier, 1609-1720 (1984)
*White, Richard. The Middle Ground (1991)

=== Atlantic Africa === 
*Berlin, Ira. “From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles…,” WMQ (1996)
*Equiano, Olaudah. Narrative
*Sweet, James. “The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought,” WMQ (1997)
*Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (1992)

=== England: Glorious Revolution and State-Building === 
*Braddick, Michael. State Formation in Early Modern England (2000) [introduction]
*Brewer, John. Sinews of Power (1989)
*Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation (1992)
*Harris, Tim. “The people, the law, and the constitution in Scotland and England: a comparative approach to the Glorious Revolution” J Brit Stud (1999)
*Pocock, J.G.A. “Empire, state and confederation: the War of American Independence as a crisis in multiple monarchy” in The Discovery of Islands (orig. 1995)
*Steele, Ian. The English Atlantic (1986)
*Wilson, Kathleen. The Sense of the People (1995)

=== English (and then American) Culture in the Seventeenth-Century === 
*Breen, T.H. “Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia” WMQ (1977)
*Bushman, Richard. “Markets and Composite Farms in Early America” WMQ (1998)
*Cressy, David. Bonfires and Bells (1990)
*Lake, Peter and David Como. ““Orthodoxy” and Its Discontents: Dispute Settlement and the Production of “Consensus” in the London (Puritan) “Underground”” J Brit St (2000)
*Hall, David. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment (1989)
*Hill, Christopher. The World Turned Upside-Down (1972)
*Muldrew, Craig. “The Culture of Reconciliation: Community and the Settlement of Economic Disputes in Early Modern England” Hist J (1996)
*Muldrew, Craig. “Credit and the Courts: Debt Litigation in a Seventeenth-Century Urban Community” Econ Hist Rev (1993)
*Pocock, J.G.A. Machiavellian Moment (1975)
*Robbins, Caroline. The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthmen (1959)
*Winship, Michael. Making Heretics (2002)
*Young, Alfred F. “English Plebian Culture and Eighteenth-Century American Radicalism.” In The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism, ed. Margaret Jacob and James Jacob.

== Colonial Development, ca. 1650-1750 ==

=== Trade, War and Empire in the Americas === 
*Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War (2000)
*Anderson, Fred. “A People’s Army” WMQ (1986)
*Armitage, David. Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000)
*Bailyn, Bernard. Peopling of British North America: An Introduction (1986)
*Elliott, J.H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America (2006)
*Hancock, David. Citizens of the World (1995)
*Norton, In the Devil’s Snare
*Pares, Richard. War and Trade in the West Indies…1739-63 (1936)

=== The Development of North American Regions === 
*Beeman, Richard. Varieties of Political Experience in 18th C. America (2004)
*Bonomi, Patricia. A Factious People (1971)
*Bushman, Richard. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985)
*Cronon, William. Changes in the Land (1983)
*Fischer, D.H. Albion’s Seed (1989)
*Greene, Jack. Peripheries and Center…1607-1788 (1986)
*Vickers, Daniel. Farmers and Fishermen (1994)
*Zuckerman, Michael. “The Social Context of Democracy in Massachusetts.” WMQ (1968)

=== Struggles for Land, North and South === 
*Brewer, Holly. “Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia.” WMQ (1997)
*Gallay, Alan. The Formation of a Planter Elite (1989)
*McConville, Brendan. Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace (1999)
*Taylor, Alan. ““A Kind of Warr”: The Contest for Land on the Northeast Frontier, 1750-1820” WMQ (1989)

=== Slavery, Plantations and Anti-Slavery in the Americas === 
*Brown, Chris. Moral Capital (2006)
*Carroll, Patrick. Blacks in Colonial Veracruz (1991) – regional study
*Davis, David B. Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975)
*Dunn, Richard. Sugar and Slaves…1624-1713 (1972)
*Klein, Herbert. Slavery in the Americas (1967)
*Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom (1975).
*Morgan, Philip. “Work and Culture” WMQ (1982)
*Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made Together (1987)
*Wood, Peter. Black Majority (1974)

=== Between Black and White: Free Coloreds North and South === 
*Johnson, Michael P. and James Roark. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984)
*King, Stewart. Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint-Domingue (2004)
*Nash, Gary. Forging Freedom (1988)

=== Religion and the Shaping of the Colonies === 
*Bonomi, Patricia. Under the Cope of Heaven (1986)
*Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith (1990)
*Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind (1966)
*Isaac, Rhys. “Evangelical Revolt: the Nature of the Baptist Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765-1775” WMQ (1974)
*Kidd, Thomas. The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (2007)
*Murrin, John. “Coming to Terms with the Salem Witch Trials” PAAS (2000)
*Winiarski, ““Pale Blewish Lights” and a Dead Man’s Groan: Tales of the Supernatural from Eighteenth-Century Plymouth” WMQ (1998)

=== The American Enlightenment === 
*Bushman, Richard. Refinement of America (1992)
*Shields, David. Civil Tongues and Polite Letters (1997)
*Warner, Michael. Letters of the Republic (1990)

== Tp the Revolution… ==

=== Origins of the Revolution: the Social Interpretations === 
*Beard, Charles A. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913)
*Carp, Benjamin. Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (2007)
*Dickerson, Oliver Morton. The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution (1951)
*Hartz, Louis. The Liberal Tradition in America (1955)
*Hoerder, Dirk. Crowd Action in Revolutionary Massachusetts, 1765-1780 (1977)
*Lemisch, Jesse. “Jack Tar in the Streets: New York's Merchant Seamen in the Politics of Revolutionary America.” WMQ (1968)
*Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra (2000)
*McCusker, John J. Rum and the American Revolution: The Rum Trade and the Balance of Payments of the Thirteen Continental Colonies
*Murrin, John and Behrtoff, “Feudalism, Communalism, and the Yeoman Frontier” (1973)
*Nash, Gary. Urban Crucible (1979)

=== Origins of the Revolution: the Ideological Interpretations === 
*Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
*Hatch, Nathan. The Sacred Cause of Liberty (1977)
*Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997)
*Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution (1972)
*Morgan, Edmund S. “The American Revolution: Revisions in Need of Revising.” WMQ (1957)
*Morgan, Edmund S. Inventing the People: the Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)
*Morgan, Edmund S. and Helen M. Morgan. The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953)
*Rodgers, Daniel T. “Republicanism: The Career of a Concept.” JAH (1992)
*Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969)
*Wood, Gordon S. Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)

=== Origins of the Revolution: New Perspectives === 
*Breen, T. H. “Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions Once More in Need of Revising.” JAH (1997)
*Breen, T.H. Marketplace of Revolution (2004)
*Holton, Woody. Forced Founders (1999)
*McConville, Brendan. The King’s Three Faces (2006)
*Murrin, “Self-Immolation”

=== Fighting the Revolution: War and Violence === 
*Carp, B. “The Night the Yankees Burned Broadway” EAS (2006)
*Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War (1979)
*Smolenski, John and Thomas Humphrey, eds. New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (2005)

== …And Beyond ==

=== The American and French Revolutions === 
*Bowman, Alfred. Struggle for Neutrality (1974)
*DeConde, Alexander. Quasi-War (1966)
*Dull, Jonathan R. The French Navy and American Independence (1975)
*Higonnet, Patrice. Sister Republics (1988)
*Hill, Peter. French Perceptions of the Early American Republic (1988)
*Palmer, R. R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959-64)
*Schama, Simon. Citizens (1989; first chapters only)

=== Nationalism in the New Nation === 
*Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976)
*McDonald, Forrest. Novus ordo saeclorum (1985)
*Pencak, Riot and Revelry in Early America (2002)
*Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes (1997)

=== The Struggle for the Republic, 1790s-1810s === 
*Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and a New Social Order (1984)
*Banning, Lance. Jeffersonian Persuasion (1978)
*Elkins, Stanley and Eric McKitrick. Age of Federalism (1993)
*Kerber, Linda. Federalists in Dissent (1970)
*McCoy, Drew. Elusive Republic (1980)
*Pasley, Jeffrey L., Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher. Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (2004)
*Shankman, Andrew. Crucible of American Democracy (2004)