Colonial America

by Richard Middleton, Anne Lombard

  Kathleen J. Bragdon, Native Peoples of Southern New England, 1500–1650 (Norman, 1996).

  Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (Baltimore, 1997).

  Robbie Ethridge, From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 (Chapel Hill, 2010).

  Charlotte Gradie, “ Spanish Jesuits in Virginia: The Mission that Failed,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 96 (1988), 131–56.

  Charles Hudson and Carmen Chaves Tesser, eds, The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521–1704 (Athens, Ga., 1994).

  Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White (Chapel Hill, 1984).

  Shepard Krech III, ed., Indians, Animals and the Fur Trade: A Critique of “Keepers of the Game” (Athens, Ga., 1981).

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (Ithaca, 2000).

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Settling with the Indians: The Meetings of English and Indian Cultures in America, 1580–1640 (Totowa, 1980).

  Calvin Martin, Keepers of the Game: Indian–Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (Berkeley, 1978).

  Jerald T. Milanich, The Timucua (Cambridge, Mass., 1996).

  Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585–1685 (Ithaca, 1999).

  H. C. Porter, The Inconstant Savage: England and the North American Indian, 1500–1660 (London, 1976).

  Stephen R. Potter, Commoners, Tribute and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley (Charlottesville, 1993).

  Helen C. Rountree, The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (Norman, 1989).

  Helen C. Rountree, ed., Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500–1722 (Charlottesville, 1993).

  Helen C. Rountree and Thomas E. Davidson, Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland (Charlottesville, 1997).

  Howard S. Russell, Indian New England Before the Mayflower (Hanover, NH, 1980).

  Neil Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans and the Making of New England, 1500–1643 (New York, 1982).

  Timothy Silver, A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500–1800 (New York, 1990).

  Kim Sloan, A New World: England's First View of America (Chapel Hill, 2007).

  Cynthia Van Zandt, Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580–1660 (New York, 2008).

  Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley, Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast (Lincoln, Nebr., 1989).

  Chapter 2 The Age of European Exploration

  General

  Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (London, 1997).

  The Vikings, Spain, and Portugal

  Emerson W. Baker et al., American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega (Lincoln, Nebr., 1994).

  C. R. Boxer, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415–1825 (London, 1968).

  J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1800 (New Haven, 2007).

  Paul E. Hoffman, A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century (Baton Rouge, 1990).

  Gwyn Jones, The Norse Atlantic Saga, Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and America (New York, 1986).

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, ed., America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750 (Chapel Hill, 1994).

  L. N. McAlister, Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492–1700 (Oxford, 1984).

  Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America, 2 vols (New York, 1971).

  Anthony Padgen, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France, 1500–c.1800 (New Haven, 1995).

  J. H. Parry, The Discovery of South America (New York, 1979).

  J. H. Parry, The Spanish Seaborne Empire (Berkeley, 1990).

  William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (Cambridge, 1993).

  David Beers Quinn, North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements: The Norse Voyages to 1612 (New York, 1975).

  A. J. R. Russell-Wood, A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and America, 1415–1808 (New York, 1993).

  Erik Wahlgren, The Vikings and America (New York, 1986).

  David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven, 1992).

  Robert S. Weddle, The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500–1685 (College Station, 1985).

  England

  K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny, and P. E. H. Hair, eds, The Westward Enterprise: English Adventurers in Ireland, the Atlantic, and America 1480–1650 (Detroit, 1979).

  David Armitage, The New World and British Historical Thought: From Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson, in Karen Ordahl Kupperman, ed., America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750 (Chapel Hill, 1995), 52–75.

  Angus Calder, Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s (New York, 1981).

  Nicholas P. Canny, The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: A Pattern Established, 1565–1576 (New York, 1976).

  Nicholas P. Canny, “ The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 30 (1973), 575–98.

  Nicholas P. Canny, ed., Europeans on the Move: Studies on European Migration, 1500–1800 (Oxford, 1994).

  Nicholas P. Canny and Anthony Pagden, eds, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (Princeton, 1987).

  J. H. Elliott, The Old World and the New, 1492–1650 (Cambridge, 1970).

  Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1650 (New York, 2008).

  R. Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (London, 1600; reprinted 1927).

  James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke (New York, 2010).

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony (Totowa, 1984; 2nd edn, Lanham, 2007).

  Ken MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576–1640 (Cambridge, 2006).

  Peter Mancall, Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (New Haven, 2007).

  G. J. Marcus, The Conquest of the North Atlantic (New York, 1981).

  David B. Quinn, England and the Discovery of America, 1481–1620 (New York, 1974).

  David B. Quinn, The New American World: A Documentary History, 5 vols (New York, 1979).

  David B. Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584–1606 (Chapel Hill, 1985).

  David B. Quinn and A. N. Ryan, England's Sea Empire, 1550–1642 (London, 1983).

  Africa

  Paul Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 2nd edn (Cambridge, 2000).

  Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, rev. edn (Washington, DC, 1981).

  John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800 (Cambridge, 1993; 2nd edn, 1998).

  Chapter 3 The English Conquer Virginia, 1607–1660

  The Virginia Company

  Charles M. Andrews, The Colonial Period of American History: The Settlements, 4 vols (New Haven, 1964).

  Robert Applebaum and John Wood Sweet, Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of an Atlantic World (Philadelphia, 2005).

  Philip L. Barbour, Pocahontas and Her World (Boston, 1970).

  Philip L. Barbour, The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith (Boston, 1964).

  Warren M. Billings, ed., The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1689 (Chapel Hill, 1975).

  Carville V. Earle, Environment, Disease, and Mortality in Early Virginia, in Thad W. Tate a
nd David L. Ammerman, eds, The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society (Chapel Hill, 1979).

  Frederic W. Gleach, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Lincoln, Nebr., 1997).

  James Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (New York, 2005).

  Ivor Noel Hume, The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne: An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey (New York, 1994).

  William Kelso, Jamestown: The Buried Truth (Charlottesville, 2006).

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, “ Apathy and Death in Early Jamestown,” Journal of American History, 66 (1979), 24–40.

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, “ Fear of Hot Climates in the Anglo-American Experience,” William and Mary Quarterly, 41 (1984), 213–40.

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project (Cambridge, Mass., 2007).

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, ed., Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings (Chapel Hill, 1988).

  J. Leo Lemay, Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? (Athens, Ga., 1992).

  Edmund S. Morgan, “ The First American Boom: Virginia 1618–1630,” William and Mary Quarterly, 28 (1971), 169–98.

  Edmund S. Morgan, “ The Labor Problem at Jamestown, 1607–1618,” American Historical Review, 76 (1971), 595–611.

  Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585–1685 (Ithaca, 1999).

  Helen Rountree, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opecancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown (Charlottesville, 2005).

  Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, “ Of Agues and Fevers: Malaria in the Early Chesapeake,” William and Mary Quarterly, 33 (1976), 31–60.

  Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, eds The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society (Chapel Hill, 1979).

  Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas and Powhatan's Dilemma (New York, 2004).

  Alden T. Vaughan, American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia (Boston, 1975).

  Growth and Consolidation

  Warren Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (Richmond, 2004).

  Warren M. Billings, ed., The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1689 (Chapel Hill, 1975).

  Warren M. Billings, John E. Selby, and Thad W. Tate, Colonial Virginia: A History (New York, 1986).

  T. H. Breen, ed., Shaping Southern Society: The Colonial Experience (New York, 1976).

  T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes, “Myne Owne Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640–1676, 2nd edn. (New York, 2005).

  Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill, 1996).

  Wesley Frank Craven, White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian (Charlottesville, 1971).

  J. Douglas Deal, Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1993).

  J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 (New Haven, 2006).

  Frederick Fausz, “ Fighting ‘Fire’ with Firearms: The Anglo-Powhatan Arms Race in Early Virginia,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 3 (1979), 33–50.

  Frederick J. Fausz, Merging and Emerging Worlds: Anglo-Indian Interest Groups and the Development of the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake, in Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo, eds, Colonial Chesapeake Society (Chapel Hill, 1989).

  April Lee Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century (Philadelphia, 2004).

  Irene W. D. Hecht, “ The Virginia Muster of 1624/5 as a Source of Demographic History,” William and Mary Quarterly, 30 (1973), 65–79.

  Ivor Noel Hume, Martin's One Hundred (New York, 1981).

  Jon Kukla, “ Order and Chaos in Early America: Political and Social Stability in Pre-Restoration Virginia,” American Historical Review, 90 (1985), 275–98.

  Jon Kukla, Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619–1660 (New York, 1989).

  Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony (New York, 1993).

  Karen Kupperman, Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of English and Indian Cultures in America, 1580–1640 (Totowa, 1980).

  Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York, 1975).

  John Ruston Pagan, Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (New York, 2003).

  James R. Perry, The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615–1655 (Chapel Hill, 1990).

  Martin H. Quitt, “ Immigrant Origins of the Virginia Gentry: A Study of Cultural Transmission and Innovation,” William and Mary Quarterly, 45 (1988), 629–55.

  Bernard Sheehan, Savagism and Civility: Indians and Englishmen in Colonial Virginia (Cambridge, 1980).

  Engel Sluiter, “ New Light on the ‘20 Odd Negroes’ Arriving in Virginia, August 1619,” William and Mary Quarterly, 54 (1997), 421–34.

  Alden T. Vaughan, “ Blacks in Virginia: A Note on the First Decade,” William and Mary Quarterly, 29 (1972), 469–78.

  Alden T. Vaughan, “ ‘Expulsion of the Savages’: English Policy and the Virginia Massacre of 1622,” William and Mary Quarterly, 35 (1978), 57–84.

  Alden T. Vaughan, The Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial Experience (New York, 1995).

  Betty Wood, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (New York, 1997).

  Chapter 4 The Conquest Continues: New England, 1620–1660

  Plymouth

  William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York, 1952).

  William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York, 1983).

  James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony (New York, 2000).

  George D. Langdon, Jr., Pilgrim Colony: A History of New Plymouth, 1620–1691 (New Haven, 1966).

  Neil Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500–1643 (New York, 1982).

  Neil Salisbury, Squanto: Last of the Patuxets, in David G. Sweet and Gary B. Nash, eds, Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Berkeley, 1981), 228–44.

  Massachusetts

  David Grayson Allen, In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century (Chapel Hill, 1981).

  Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New England in the Seventeenth Century, in Nicholas Canny, ed., The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1998), 193–217.

  Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 1991).

  Richard Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Hanover, NH, 2001).

  Ben Barker-Benfield, “ Anne Hutchinson and the Puritan Attitude toward Women,” Feminist Studies, 1 (1972), 65–96.

  Emery Battis, Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy (Chapel Hill, 1962).

  Theodore Dwight Bozeman, To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism (Chapel Hill, 1988).

  T. H. Breen, The Character of a Good Ruler: Puritan Political Ideas, 1630–1730 (New Haven, 1970).

  T. H. Breen, “ Persistent Localism: English Social Change and the Shaping of New England Institutions,” William and Mary Quarterly, 32 (1975), 3–28.

  T. H. Breen, Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (New York, 1980).

  T. H. Breen and Stephen Foster, “ The Puritans' Greatest Achievement: A Study of Social Cohesion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts,” Journal of American History, 60 (1973/4), 5–22.
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br />   Francis J. Bremer, Congregational Communion: Clerical Friendship in the Anglo-American Puritan Community, 1610–1692 (Boston, 1994).

  Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (New York, 2003).

  Francis J. Bremer, Puritan Crisis: New England and the English Civil Wars, 1630–1670 (New York, 1989).

  Francis J. Bremer, The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards (New York, 1976).

  Kristina Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians and Colonial American Identity (Ithaca, 2004).

  Alfred A. Cave, The Pequot War (Amherst, 1996).

  Alfred A. Cave, “ Who Killed John Stone? A Note on the Origins of the Pequot War,” William and Mary Quarterly, 49 (1992), 509–21.

  Cedric B. Cowing, The Saving Remnant: Religion and the Settling of New England (Urbana, 1995).

  David Cressy, Coming Over: Migration between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1987).

  A. L. Cummings, The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625–1725 (Cambridge, Mass., 1979).

  Bruce C. Daniels, Puritans at Play, Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England (Basingstoke, 1995).

  Andrew Delbanco, The Puritan Ordeal (Cambridge, Mass., 1989).

  Richard S. Dunn, Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England, 1630–1717 (Princeton, 1962).

  Stephen Foster, The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570–1700 (Chapel Hill, 1991).

  Stephen Foster, Their Solitary Way: The Puritan Social Ethic in the First Century of Settlement in New England (New Haven, 1971).

  Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Cambridge, Mass., 1999).

  Richard Godbeer, “ ‘The Cry of Sodom’: Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England,” William and Mary Quarterly, 52 (1995), 259–86.

  Philip F. Gura, A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620–1660 (Middletown, 1984).

  David D. Hall, The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century (Chapel Hill, 1972).

  David D. Hall, “ On Common Ground: The Coherence of American Puritan Studies,” William and Mary Quarterly, 44 (1987), 193–229.