Craig Gallagher craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Atlantic World, c. 1500-1800 w/ Prof. Stanwood
Greene, Jack P. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British
Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988).
Greene, Jack P., and J. R. Pole, ed., Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era (1984) .
Murrin, John M. “Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonies in America.” In Eric
Foner, ed., The New American History (1997).
Richter, Daniel K. Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (2011) .
Taylor, Alan. American Colonies (2001) .
Armitage, David, and Michael Braddick, eds., The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800
(2002) .
Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005) .
Greene, Jack P., and Philip D. Morgan. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2009).
Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680
(1992).
Chaplin, Joyce E. Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-
American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001).
Crosby, Alfred. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
(1972).
Elliott, J. H. The Old World and the New, 1492-1650 (1969) .
Fitzmaurice, Andrew. Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English
Colonisation, 1500-1625 (2003).
Grafton, Anthony. New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of
Discovery (1992) .
Mancall, Peter. Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America
(2007).
Schmidt, Benjamin. Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World,
1570-1670 (2001).
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Atlantic World, c. 1500-1800 w/ Prof. Stanwood
Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of America: An Introduction (1986).
Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of North America on the Eve of the American Revolution (1986) .
Choquette, Leslie. Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of
French Canada (1997).
Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (1999).
Games, Alison. Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (2001) .
Griffin, Patrick. The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World (2001).
Harms, Robert. The Diligent: A Journey through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (2002).
Landsman, Ned. Scotland and its First American Colony, 1683-1765 (1985).
Roeber, A. G. Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British
America (1993).
Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand. From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and their
Migration to Colonial South Carolina (2006).
Anderson, Fred. The Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in
North America (2001).
Armitage, David. The Intellectual Origins of the British Empire.
(2000).
Bailyn, Bernard, and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (1991) .
Bilder, Mary Sarah. The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the
Empire (2004).
Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1783
(1989).
Canny, Nicholas. Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World, 1560-1800 (1988).
Canny, Nicholas. Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (2001).
Canny, Nicholas, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume 1, The Origins of
Empire (2001).
Dunn, Richard. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies,
1624-1713 (1972).
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America (2007) .
Games, Alison. The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion
(2009).
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Atlantic World, c. 1500-1800 w/ Prof. Stanwood
Hatfield, April. Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
(2007).
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. The Jamestown Project (2009).
Marshall, P. J., ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume 2, The Eighteenth
Century (2001).
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial
Virginia (1972).
Pritchard, James. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730 (2007).
Ritchie, Robert C. Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates (1986).
Zahedieh, Nuala. The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-
1700 (2010).
Bonomi, Patricia. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial
America (2003).
Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996).
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700
(2006).
Greer, Allan. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (2006).
Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religion in Early New
England (1990) .
Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
(1969).
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (1953).
Schwartz, Stuart. All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian
Atlantic World (2008).
Sensbach, Jon. Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (2005).
Winship, Michael. Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and the City on a Hill (2012) .
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
(2000).
Breen, T. H., Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the
American Revolution (1985).
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Atlantic World, c. 1500-1800 w/ Prof. Stanwood
Carr, Lois Green, Russell Menard, and Lorena Walsh, Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland (1991) .
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New
England (1983) .
Edelson, Max. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (2006) .
Hancock, David. Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the
British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (1997).
McCusker, John, and Russell Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
(1985).
Menard, Russell. Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early
Barbados (2006).
Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).
Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World (1987).
Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina (1972).
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) .
Bonomi, Patricia. The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British
America (2000).
Breen, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American
Independence (2004).
Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French
Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2006).
Gould, Eliga. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the
American Revolution (2000) .
Harris, Tim. Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1715 (2007).
Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2011).
McConville, Brendan. The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-
1776 (2007).
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew. An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British
Caribbean (2000) .
Pestana, Carla Gardina. The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (2004).
Pincus, Steve. 1688: The First Modern Revolution (2009) .
Pocock, J.G.A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition (1975) .
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Atlantic World, c. 1500-1800 w/ Prof. Stanwood
Pocock, J.G.A., ed. Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776 (1980).
Stanwood, Owen. The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious
Revolution (2011) .
Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resistance   : the North American Indian Struggle for
Unity, 1745-1815 (1992).
Hamalainen, Pekka, The Comanche Empire (2009) .
Haefeli, Evan, and Kevin M. Sweeney. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian
Raid on Deerfield (2003).
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000).
Merrell, James H. The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from
European Contact through the Era of Removal (1991) .
Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for
Authority in Colonial New England (2006).
Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
(2003).
Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (1992) .
Rushforth, Brett. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
(2012) .
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes
Region, 1650-1815 (1991) .
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