Stephanie Grauman Wolf, Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683–1800 (Princeton, 1976).
The Backcountry or Frontier Region
Craig Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem (University Park, 2004).
David Colin Crass, ed., The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities (Knoxville, 1998).
Eric Hinderaker and Peter Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (Baltimore, 2003).
Warren R. Hofstra, “ ‘The Extention of His Majesties Dominions': The Virginia Backcountry and the Reconfiguration of Imperial Frontiers,” Journal of American History, 84 (1997–8), 1281–312.
Warren R. Hofstra, The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley (Baltimore, 2004).
George Lloyd Johnson, Jr., The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736–1800 (Greenwood, 1997).
Terry G. Jordan and Matti Kaups, The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation (Baltimore, 1989).
Peter Mancall, Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna (Ithaca, 1991).
James Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier (New York, 2000).
Jane Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier (Chapel Hill, 2003).
Robert D. Mitchell, Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early Shenandoah Valley (Charlottesville, 1977).
Gregory H. Nobles, “ Breaking into the Backcountry: New Approaches to the Early American Frontier, 1750–1880,” William and Mary Quarterly, 46 (1989), 641–70.
Michael J. Puglisi, ed., Diversity and Accommodation: Essays on the Cultural Composition of the Virginia Frontier (Knoxville, 1997).
Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (New York, 2008).
Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 (Middletown, 1973).
Georgia
Kenneth Coleman, Colonial Georgia: A History (New York, 1976).
Kenneth Coleman, ed., A History of Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1977).
Harold E. Davis, The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733–1776 (Chapel Hill, 1976).
Alan Gallay, The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier (Athens, Ga., 1989).
Alan Gallay, “ Jonathan Bryan's Plantation Empire: Land, Politics, and the Formation of a Ruling Class in Colonial Georgia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 45 (1988), 253–79.
Harvey H. Jackson and Phinizy Spalding, eds, Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1984).
Anthony W. Parker, Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration and Settlement at Darien, 1735–1748 (Athens, Ga., 1997).
Phinizy Spalding, Oglethorpe in America (Chicago, 1977).
Phinizy Spalding and Harvey H. Jackson, Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years (Tuscaloosa, 1989).
Paul S. Taylor, Georgia Plan: 1732–1752 (Berkeley, 1972).
Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Origins of a Southern Mosaic: Studies of Early Carolina and Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1975).
Betty Wood, Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730–1755 (Athens, Ga., 1984).
Betty Wood, Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1995).
The Colonial Town
Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776 (New York, 1955).
Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625–1742 (New York, 1938).
Bruce C. Daniels, Town and County: Essays on the Structure of Local Government in the American Colonies (Middletown, 1978).
Carville V. Earle and Ronald Hoffman, “ Urban Development in the Eighteenth-Century South,” Perspectives in American History, 10 (1976), 7–78.
Joseph A. Ernst and H. Roy Merrens, “ ‘Camden's Turrets Pierce the Skies!': The Urban Process in the Southern Colonies during the Eighteenth Century,” William and Mary Quarterly, 30 (1973), 549–74.
Douglas Greenberg, Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York, 1691–1776 (Ithaca, 1976).
Douglas Lamar Jones, Village and Seaport: Migration and Society in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts (Hanover, NH, 1981).
Susan E. Klepp, Philadelphia in Transition: A Demographic History of the City and Its Occupational Groups, 1720–1830 (New York, 1989).
Gary B. Nash, The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1979).
G. B. Warden, Boston, 1689–1776 (Boston, 1970).
Hermann Wellenreuther, “ Urbanization in the Colonial South: A Critique,” William and Mary Quarterly, 31 (1974), 653–68.
Lynne Withey, Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island: Newport and Providence in the Eighteenth Century (Albany, 1984).
Jerome H. Wood, Jr., Conestoga Crossroads: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1790 (Harrisburg, 1979).
Chapter 18 British North American Institutions of Government
Royal Government
Mary Sarah Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire (Cambridge, Mass., 2004).
H. V. Bowen, Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688–1775 (Basingstoke, 1996).
Jack P. Greene, Negotiated Authorities: Essays on Colonial Political and Constitutional History (Charlottesville, 1994).
Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Politics of the British Empire and the United States, 1607–1788 (Athens, Ga., 1986).
James A. Henretta, “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle (Princeton, 1972).
Michael G. Kammen, Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the Politics of Mercantilism (Philadelphia, 1970).
P. J. Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, 1750–1783 (Oxford, 2005).
Richard Middleton, “ The Duke of Newcastle and the Conduct of Patronage during the Seven Years' War, 1757–1762,” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 12 (1989), 175–86.
Alison Gilbert Olson, Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690–1790 (Cambridge, Mass., 1992).
Steven Sarson, British America, 1500–1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire (London, 2005).
Local Government: Town and County
David Grayson Allen, “ The Zuckerman Thesis and the Process of Legal Rationalization in Provincial Massachusetts,” with a rebuttal by Michael Zuckerman, William and Mary Quarterly, 29 (1972), 443–68.
Richard R. Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746–1832 (Philadelphia, 1984).
Richard R. Beeman, “ Social Change and Cultural Conflict in Virginia: Lunenburg County, 1746–1774, William and Mary Quarterly, 35 (1978), 455–76.
Edward Byers, The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660–1820 (Boston, 1986).
Edward M. Cook, Jr., The Fathers of the Towns: Leadership and Community Structure in Eighteenth-Century New England (Baltimore, 1976).
Edward M. Cook, Jr., “ Social Behavior and Changing Values in Dedham, Massachusetts, 1700–1775,” William and Mary Quarterly, 27 (1970), 546–80.
Bruce C. Daniels, The Connecticut Town: Growth and Development, 1635–1790 (Middletown, 1979).
Bruce C. Daniels, The Fragmentation of New England: Comparative Perspectives on Economic, Political, and Social Divisions in the Eighteenth Century (Westport, 1988).
Bruce C. Daniels, Town and County: Essays on the Structure of Local Government in the American Colonies (Middletown, 1978).
Carville V. Earle, The Evolution of a Tidewa
ter Settlement System: All Hallow's Parish, Maryland, 1650–1783 (Chicago, 1975).
George W. Franz, Paxton: A Study of Community Structure and Mobility in the Colonial Pennsylvania Backcountry (New York, 1989).
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690–1750 (New York, 1984).
Richard Holmes, Communities in Transition: Bedford and Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1729–1850 (Ann Arbor, 1980).
Jessica Kross, The Evolution of an American Town: Newtown, New York, 1624–1775 (Philadelphia, 1983).
Barry Levy, Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution (Philadelphia, 2009).
Kenneth A. Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636–1736 (New York, 1970).
Gwenda Morgan, The Hegemony of the Law: Richmond County, Virginia, 1692–1776 (New York, 1989).
Gregory H. Nobles, Divisions throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740–1775 (New York, 1983).
A. G. Roeber, “ Authority, Law, and Custom: The Rituals of Court Day in Tidewater Virginia, 1720–1750,” William and Mary Quarterly, 37 (1980), 29–52.
Darrett B. Rutman, “ Assessing the Little Communities of Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 43 (1986), 163–78.
Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia 1650–1750 (New York, 1984).
Stephanie G. Wolf, Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683–1800 (Princeton, 1976).
Michael Zuckerman, Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1970).
The Provincial Assembly: Crown versus People
Michael Batinski, Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor (Lexington, Ky., 1996).
Richard L. Bushman, King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (Chapel Hill, 1985).
Robert J. Dinkin, Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689–1776 (Westport, 1977).
Jack P. Greene, The Growth of Political Stability: An Interpretation of Political Development in the Anglo-American Colonies, 1660–1760, in John Parker and Carol Urness, eds, The American Revolution: A Heritage of Change (Minneapolis, 1975).
Jack P. Greene, “ Legislative Turnover in British America, 1696–1775: A Quantitative Analysis,” William and Mary Quarterly, 38 (1981), 442–63.
Jack P. Greene, “ Political Mimesis: A Consideration of the Historical and Cultural Roots of Legislative Behavior in the British Colonies in the Eighteenth Century,” with a reply by Bernard Bailyn, American Historical Review, 75 (1969–70), 337–67.
Jack P. Greene, The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689–1776 (Chapel Hill, 1963).
Daniel Hulsebosch, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830 (Chapel Hill, 2005).
James H. Hutson, Pennsylvania Politics, 1746–1770: The Movement for Royal Government and Its Consequences (Princeton, 1972).
Michael Kammen, A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution (Ithaca, 1968).
Stanley N. Katz, Between Scylla and Charybdis: James DeLancey and Anglo-American Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century New York, in Alison G. Olson and Richard M. Brown, eds, Anglo-American Political Relations, 1675–1775 (New Brunswick, 1970).
Mary Lou Lustig, Robert Hunter, 1666–1734: New York's Augustan Statesman (Syracuse, 1983).
Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (New York, 1988).
J. R. Pole, Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic (New York, 1966).
Thomas L. Purvis, “ ‘High Born, Long Recorded Families': Social Origins of New Jersey Assemblymen, 1703–1776,” William and Mary Quarterly, 37 (1980), 592–615.
Thomas L. Purvis, Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703–1776 (New Brunswick, 1986).
Eugene R. Sheridan, Lewis Morris, 1671–1746: A Study in Early American Politics (Syracuse, 1981).
Bruce P. Stark, “ ‘A Factious Spirit': Constitutional Theory and Political Practice in Connecticut, 1740,” William and Mary Quarterly, 47 (1990), 391–410.
Alan Tully, William Penn's Legacy: Politics and Social Structure in Provincial Pennsylvania, 1726–1755 (Baltimore, 1977).
Political Practices in the Age of Walpole
Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics (New York, 1968).
Richard R. Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (Philadelphia, 2004).
Patricia U. Bonomi, A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York (New York, 1971).
Bruce C. Daniels, ed., Power and Status: Officeholding in Colonial America (Middletown, 1986).
Marc Egnal, A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution (Ithaca, 1988).
A. Roger Ekirch, “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776 (Chapel Hill, 1981).
Joy B. Gilsdorf and Robert R. Gilsdorf, Elites and Electorates: Some Plain Truths for Historians of Colonial America, in David D. Hall, John M. Murrin, and Thad W. Tate, eds, Saints and Revolutionaries: Essays on Early American History (New York, 1984).
Stanley Nider Katz, Newcastle's New York: Anglo-American Politics, 1732–1753 (Cambridge, Mass., 1968).
John Gilman Kolp, “ The Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 49 (1992), 652–74.
John Gilman Kolp, Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics in Colonial Virginia (Baltimore, 1998).
Kenneth A. Lockridge, Settlement and Unsettlement in Early America: Political Legitimacy Before the Revolution (Cambridge, 1981).
Brendan McConville, These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey (Ithaca, 1999).
John McCurdy, Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States (Ithaca, 2009).
Simon Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (Philadelphia, 2006).
Benjamin H. Newcomb, Political Partisanship in the American Middle Colonies, 1700–1776 (Baton Rouge, 1995).
Gregory Nobles, Divisions throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740–1775 (New York, 1983).
Alison Gilbert Olson, Anglo-American Politics, 1660–1775: The Relationship between Parties in England and Colonial America (New York, 1973).
Thomas L. Purvis, “ ‘High Born, Long Recorded Families': Social Origins of New Jersey Assemblymen, 1703–1776,” William and Mary Quarterly, 37 (1980), 592–615.
Thomas L. Purvis, “ Origins and Patterns of Agrarian Unrest in New Jersey, 1735–1754,” William and Mary Quarterly, 39 (1982), 600–27.
I. K. Steele, “ The Empire and Provincial Elites: An Interpretation of Some Recent Writings on the English Atlantic, 1675–1740,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 8 (1980), 2–32.
Albert H. Tillson, Jr., Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740–1789 (Lexington, Ky., 1991).
Alan Tully, Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (Baltimore, 1994).
Robert M. Weir, “ ‘The Harmony We Were Famous For': An Interpretation of Pre-Revolutionary South Carolina Politics,” William and Mary Quarterly, 26 (1969), 473–501.
Robert M. Weir, The Last American Freeman: Studies in the Political Culture of the Colonial and Revolutionary South (Macon, Ga., 1986).
Robert Zemsky, Merchants, Farmers, and River Gods: An Essay on Eighteenth-Century American Politics (Boston, 1971).
Political Ideology
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1967).
Richard Beeman, “ Def
erence, Republicanism, and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth-Century America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 49 (1992), 401–30.
T. H. Breen, “ Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions Once More in Need of Revising,” Journal of American History, 84 (1997), 14–35.
Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (Chapel Hill, 2005).
J. M. Bumsted, “ ‘Things in the Womb of Time': Ideas of American Independence, 1633–1763,” William and Mary Quarterly, 31 (1974), 533–64.
Richard L. Bushman, King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (Chapel Hill, 1985).
Robert M. Calhoon, Dominion and Liberty: Ideology in the Anglo-American World, 1660–1801 (Arlington Heights, 1994).
H. Trevor Colbourn, The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, 1965).
H. T. Dickinson, Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (New York, 1978).
Eliga H. Gould, The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, 2000).
Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 (Chapel Hill, 2006).
Richard K?. Matthews. Virtue, Corruption, and Self-Interest: Political Values in the Eighteenth Century (Bethlehem, Pa., 1994).
Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (New York, 1988).
J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, 1975).
J. G. A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1985).
J. R. Pole, The Gift of Government: Political Responsibility from the English Restoration to American Independence (Athens, Ga., 1983).
Caroline Robbins, The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies (Cambridge, Mass., 1959).
Lee Ward, The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America (Cambridge, 2004).
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