Colonial America

by Richard Middleton, Anne Lombard

  S. Charles Bolton, Southern Anglicanism: The Church of England in Colonial South Carolina (Westport, 1982).

  Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America (New York, 1986).

  Patricia U. Bonomi and Peter R. Eisenstadt, “ Church Adherence in the Eighteenth-Century British American Colonies,” William and Mary Quarterly, 39 (1982), 245–86.

  Richard L. Bushman, ed., The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740–1745 (Chapel Hill, 1989).

  Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Cambridge, Mass., 1990).

  Jon Butler, “ Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction,” Journal of American History, 69 (1982), 305–25.

  Milton J. Coalter, Gilbert Tennent, Son of Thunder (Westport, 1986).

  Ralph J. Coffman, Solomon Stoddard (Boston, 1978).

  James F. Cooper, Jr., Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (New York, 1999).

  Norman Fiering, Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context (Chapel Hill, 1981).

  Christopher Grasso, A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (Chapel Hill, 2000).

  Keith L. Griffin, Revolution and Religion: American Revolutionary War and the Reformed Clergy (New York, 1994).

  Philip F. Gura, “ Going Mr Stoddard's Way: William Williams on Church Privileges, 1693,” William and Mary Quarterly, 45 (1988), 489–98.

  Timothy D. Hall, Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World (Durham, NC, 1994).

  Nathan O. Hatch, The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England (New Haven, 1977).

  Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout, Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (New York, 1988).

  Alan Heimert, Religion and the American Mind from the Great Awakening to the Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1966).

  E. Brooks Hollifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (New Haven, 2003).

  Rhys Isaac, “ Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists' Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765–1775,” William and Mary Quarterly, 31 (1974), 345–66.

  Rhys Isaac, “ Religion and Authority: Problems of the Anglican Establishment in Virginia in the Era of the Great Awakening and the Parsons' Cause,” William and Mary Quarterly, 30 (1973), 3–36.

  Alessa Johns, ed., Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of the Enlightenment (New York, 1999).

  James W. Jones, The Shattered Synthesis: New England Puritanism Before the Great Awakening (New Haven, 1973).

  Thomas Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Culture in Colonial America (New Haven, 2007).

  Frank Lambert, Inventing the “Great Awakening” (Princeton, 1999).

  Frank Lambert, “ Pedlar in Divinity”: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals (Princeton, 1994).

  Brian F. LeBeau, Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism (Lexington, Ky., 1997).

  Janet Moore Lindman, “ Acting the Manly Christian: White Evangelical Masculinity in Revolutionary Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 57 (2000), 393–416.

  Stephen L. Longenecker, Piety and Tolerance: Pennsylvania German Religion, 1700–1850 (Metuchen, 1994).

  David S. Lovejoy, Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1985).

  Richard F. Lovelace, The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, 1979).

  Paul R. Lucas, “ ‘An Appeal to the Learned': The Mind of Solomon Stoddard,” William and Mary Quarterly, 30 (1973), 257–92.

  Paul R. Lucas, Valley of Discord: Church and Society along the Connecticut River, 1636–1725 (Hanover, NH, 1976).

  William G. McLoughlin, New England Dissent, 1630–1833: The Baptists and the Separation of Church and State (Cambridge, Mass., 1971).

  William G. McLoughlin, Soul Liberty: The Baptists' Struggle in New England, 1630–1833 (Hanover, NH, 1991).

  Jack D. Marietta, The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748–1783 (Philadelphia, 1984).

  George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven, 2003).

  Perry Miller, Preparation for Salvation in Seventeenth-Century New England, in Nature's Nation (Cambridge, Mass., 1967).

  Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Edinburgh, 1987).

  Mark Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (New York, 2002).

  Peter S. Onuf, “ New Lights in New London: A Group Portrait of the Separatists, 1740–1745,” William and Mary Quarterly, 37 (1980), 627–44.

  Richard W. Pointer, Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity (Bloomington, 1988).

  Sally Schwartz, A Mixed Multitude: The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania (New York, 1987).

  Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather (New York, 1984).

  Thomas Slaughter, The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman: Apostle of Abolition (New York, 2008).

  Bruce E. Steiner, “ Anglican Officeholding in Pre-Revolutionary Connecticut: The Parameters of New England Community,” William and Mary Quarterly, 31 (1974), 369–406.

  Harry S. Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (New York, 1986).

  Harry S. Stout, “ Religion, Communications, and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly, 34 (1977), 519–41.

  Patricia J. Tracy, Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth-Century Northampton (New York, 1980).

  Mark Valeri, Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America (New York, 1994).

  Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625–1760 (New York, 1988).

  Michael P. Winship, Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment (Baltimore, 1996).

  John Frederick Woolverton, Colonial Anglicanism in North America (Detroit, 1984).

  Arthur J. Worrall, Quakers in the Colonial Northeast (Hanover, NH, 1980).

  J. William T. Youngs, Jr., God's Messengers: Religious Leadership in Colonial New England, 1700–1750 (Baltimore, 1976).

  Avihus Zahai, Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton, 2003).

  Education and Literacy

  James Axtell, The School upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England (New Haven, 1974).

  Bernard Bailyn, Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study (Chapel Hill, 1960).

  Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., The Colonial Physician and Other Essays (New York, 1975).

  Stephen Botein, The Legal Profession in Colonial North America, in Wilfred Prest, ed., Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America (New York, 1981).

  Gillian Brown, The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture (Cambridge, Mass., 2001).

  Richard D. Brown, Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700–1865 (New York, 1989).

  Richard D. Brown, The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870 (Chapel Hill, 1996).

  Patricia Cline Cohen, A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (Chicago, 1983).

  Patricia Crain, Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter (Stanford, 2000).

  Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783 (New York, 1970).

  Alan F. Day, A Social Study of Lawyers in Maryland, 1660–1775 (New York, 1989).

  Sandra M. Gustafson, Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (
Chapel Hill, 2000).

  Peter Charles Hoffer, Law and People in Colonial America (Baltimore, 1992).

  Kenneth A. Lockridge, Literacy in Colonial New England: An Enquiry into the Social Context of Literacy in the Early Modern West (New York, 1974).

  E. Jennifer Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America (Amherst, 2005).

  Howard Miller, The Revolutionary College: American Presbyterian Higher Education, 1707–1837 (New York, 1976).

  Lamar Riley Murphy, Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760–1860 (Tuscaloosa, 1991).

  John M. Murrin, The Legal Transformation: The Bench and Bar of Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts, in Stanley N. Katz, ed., Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development (Boston, 1971).

  Margaret Connell Szasz, Indian Education in the American Colonies (Albuquerque, 1988).

  Margaret Connell Szasz, Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Norman, 2007).

  Tamara Plakins Thornton, Handwriting in America: A Cultural History (New Haven, 1996).

  Richard Warch, School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1701–1740 (New Haven, 1973).

  Letter-Writing and Communication

  Eve Tabor Bannet, Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680–1820 (Cambridge, 2005).

  Konstantin Dierks, In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America (Philadelphia, 2009).

  Richard Johns, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Cambridge, Mass., 1995).

  Anglicization, Manners, and Sensibility

  T. H. Breen, “ An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690–1776,” Journal of British Studies, 25 (1986), 467–99.

  T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (New York, 2004).

  Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York, 1992).

  Nicole Eustace, Passion is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, 2008).

  Jack P. Greene, Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History (Charlottesville, 1992).

  Dallett Hemphill, Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620–1860 (New York, 1999).

  Dallett Hemphill, “ Manners and Class in the Revolutionary Era: A Transatlantic Comparison,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (2006), 345–72.

  Phyllis Whitman Hunter, Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780 (Ithaca, 2001).

  Sarah Knott, Sensibility and the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, 2009).

  John M. Murrin, Anglicizing an American Colony: The Transformation of Provincial Massachusetts (unpublished PhD thesis, Yale University, 1966).

  Michal J. Rozbicki, The Complete Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (Charlottesville, 1998).

  Robert Blair St. George, Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture (Chapel Hill, 1998).

  Libraries, Literature, and the Press

  Charles E. Clark, The Public Print: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665–1740 (New York, 1994).

  David A. Copeland, Colonial American Newspapers: Character and Content (Newark, Del., 1997).

  Richard Beale Davis, A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century (Athens, Ga., 1979).

  Thomas M. Davis, A Reading of Edward Taylor (Newark, Del., 1992).

  Norman Fiering, “ The Transatlantic Republic of Letters: A Note on the Circulation of Learned Periodicals to Early Eighteenth-Century America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 33 (1976), 642–60.

  David D. Hall and John B. Hench, eds, Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639–1876 (Worcester, Mass., 1987).

  William L. Joyce et al., eds, Printing and Society in Early America (Worcester, Mass., 1983).

  Leonard W. Levy, The Emergence of a Free Press (New York, 1985).

  William Pencak and Wythe W. Holt, Jr., The Law in America, 1607–1861 (New York, 1989).

  William David Sloan and Julie Hedgepeth Williams, The Early American Press, 1690–1783 (Westport, 1994).

  Jeffrey A. Smith, Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism (New York, 1988).

  John Tebbel, A History of Book Publishing in the United States, Vol. 1: The Creation of an Industry, 1630–1865 (New York, 1972).

  Julie Hedgepeth Williams, The Significance of the Printed Word in Early America: Colonists' Thoughts on the Role of the Press (Greenwood, 1999).

  Edwin Wolf, The Library of James Logan of Philadelphia, 1674–1751 (Philadelphia, 1974).

  Science

  Silvio A. Bedini, Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science (New York, 1975).

  Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., The Colonial Physician and Other Essays (New York, 1975).

  I. Bernard Cohen, Benjamin Franklin's Science (Cambridge, Mass., 1990).

  Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620–1820 (Boston, 1980).

  James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America (New Haven, 2007).

  Sara Gronim, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York (New Brunswick, 2007).

  Brooke Hindle, ed., America's Wooden Age: Aspects of Its Early Technology (Tarrytown, 1975).

  Randolph Sidney Klein, ed., Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. (Philadelphia, 1986).

  Ronald Numbers, ed., Medicine in the New World: New Spain, New France, and New England (Knoxville, 1987).

  Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Chapel Hill, 2006).

  Raymond Phineas Stearns, Science in the British Colonies of America (Urbana, 1970).

  The Arts

  Owen Aldridge, Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach (Princeton, 1982).

  Ralph Bauer, The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (Cambridge, 2003).

  Wendy Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650–1830 (New York, 1980).

  Wayne Craven, Colonial American Portraiture: The Economic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Philosophical, Scientific, and Aesthetic Foundations (New York, 1986).

  Richard Beale Davis, Literature and Society in Early Virginia, 1608–1840 (Baton Rouge, 1973).

  Emory Elliott, Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725–1810 (New York, 1982).

  Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century (Boston, 1982).

  Norman S. Grabo, Edward Taylor, rev. edn (Boston, 1988).

  Philip F. Gura, “ The Study of Colonial American Literature, 1966–1987: A Vade Mecum,” William and Mary Quarterly, 45 (1988), 305–41.

  Sharon M. Harris, ed., American Women Writers to 1800 (New York, 1996).

  Graham Hood, Charles Bridges and William Dering: Two Virginia Painters, 1735–1750 (Williamsburg, 1978).

  Odai Johnson, Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster (New York, 2006).

  J. A. Leo Lemay, ed., Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis (New York, 1977).

  Richard H. Saunders and Ellen G. Miles, American Colonial Portraits, 1700–1776 (Washington, DC, 1987).

  Jason Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (Philadelphia, 2007).

  David S. Shields, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America (Chapel Hill, 1997).

  David S. Shields, Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690–1750 (Chicago, 1990).

  Kenneth Silverman, A Cultural History of the American Revolution (New York, 1986).

  Louis B. Wright et al., The Arts in America: The Colonial Period (New
York, 1966).

  Popular Culture

  Elaine Breslaw, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture (Baton Rouge, 2008).

  T. H. Breen, “ Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling among the Gentry of Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 34 (1977), 239–57.

  Steven C. Bullock, Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730–1840 (Chapel Hill, 1996).

  Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837 (New Haven, 1992).

  David W. Conroy, In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts (Chapel Hill, 1995).

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

  Peter Charles Hoffer, Sensory Worlds in Early America (Baltimore, 2003).

  Daniel Walker Howe, Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Cambridge, Mass., 1997).

  Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 (Chapel Hill, 2006).

  Richard Cullen Roth, How Early America Sounded (Ithaca, 2003).

  Sharon Salinger, Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Baltimore, 2002).

  Nancy L. Struna, People of Prowess: Sport, Leisure, and Labor in Early Anglo-America (Urbana, 1996).

  Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1999).

  Chapter 14 Slavery and the African American Experience, 1689–1760

  Overviews

  Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control; Vol. 2: The Origins of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (New York, 1994, 1997).

  Ira Berlin, “ From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 53 (1996), 251–88.

  Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge, Mass., 1998).

  Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1899 (New York, 1997).

  David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (New York, 2000).

  Philip S. Foner, History of Black Americans from Africa to the Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom (Westport, 1975).