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20#1 (October 1914) pp. 43-63 online
▪ Bruce, Philip A. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century:
An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based on
Original and Contemporaneous Records. (1896), very old fashioned
history online edition
▪ Clark, Victor S. History of Manufactures in the United States: 1607-1860
(1916) online at books.google.com
▪ Engerman, Stanley L., and Robert E. Gallman (eds.), The Cambridge
Economic History of the United States: Volume I, The Colonial Era
(1996), advanced articles by experts
▪ Kulikoff, Allan. From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
(2000) online edition
▪ McCusker, John J. ed. Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (1991),
540pp, highly influential standard scholarly survey
Weeden, William Babcock. Economic and Social History of New England,
1620-1789 (1891) 964 pages; [http://books.google.com/books?
Early National Period
▪ Adams, James Truslow. The Founding of New England,
(1921)online edition
▪ Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic
Animals Transformed Early America (2005) excerpt and text
search
▪ Andrews, Charles M. "Colonial Commerce," American Historical
Review, 20#1 (October 1914) pp. 43-63 online
▪ Andrews, Charles M. Our Earliest Colonial Settlements: Their
Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics (1933) briefly
discusses Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Maryland) online edition
▪ Andrews, Charles M. Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689.. (1904)
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Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Period of American History,
(1934-38) (the standard overview in four volumes) online at
ACLS e-books
Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of
America on the eve of the Revolution (1986), winner of the
Pulitzer Prize in History
Bancroft, George. History of the United States of America, from the
discovery of the American continent. 10 vol (1860) online
editions
Beer, George Louis. "British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765," Political
Science Quarterly, vol 22 (March 1907) pp 1-48; online edition
Beeman, Richard R. "The Varieties of Political Experience in
Eighteenth-Century America (2006) excerpt and text search
Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America (1997)
276pp excerpt and text search
Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society,
and Politics in Colonial America (1988) (online at ACLS History
e-book project)
Bonomi, Patricia U. A Factious People: Politics and Society in
Colonial New York, (1971) online edition
Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious
Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
(1996) 512pp excerpt and text search
Bruce, Philip A. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth
Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People,
Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records. (1896),
very old fashioned history online edition
Carr, Lois Green and Philip D. Morgan. Colonial Chesapeake
Society (1991), 524pp excerpt and text search
Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732, (1920), online
edition
Crane, Verner W. "The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne’s War,"
American Historical Review vol 24, (April 1919) pp 379-95.
online edition
Craven, Wesley Frank. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth
Century, 1607–1689 (1949). Vol. I in A History of the South.
Gipson, Lawrence. The British Empire Before the American
Revolution (15 volumes) (1936-1970), Pulitzer Prize; highly
detailed discussion of every British colony in the New World
▪ Greene, Evarts Boutelle. Provincial America, 1690-1740, (1935)
survey by scholar online edition
▪ Hatfield, April Lee. Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the
Seventeenth Century (2007) excerpt and text search
▪ Illick, Joseph E. Colonial Pennsylvania: A History, (1976) online
edition
▪ Kammen, Michael. Colonial New York: A History, (2003)
▪ Labaree, Benjamin Woods. Colonial Massachusetts: A History,
(1979)
▪ Kulikoff, Allan. From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
(2000) online edition
▪ Middleton, Richard. Colonial America: A History, 1565-1776 (3rd ed
2002), 576pp excerpt and text search
▪ Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The
Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975) Pulitzer Prizeonline edition
▪ Osgood, Herbert L. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth
Century. 3 vol (1904-07) online edition
▪ Tate, Thad W. Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century (1980)
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▪ Taylor, Alan. American Colonies, (2001) survey by leading scholar
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Assigned Reading
Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of E
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virgin
W.W. Norton & Co., 1975).
David Hackett Fischer, Albion 's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxfo
Press, 1989).
James Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European C
the Era of Removal (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
Anthony S. Parent, Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (New York: Dover Publicati
Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the Ameri
in Virginia (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999).
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: A.A. Knopf, 19
Optional Books (choose one for an extended book review)
Peter C. Mancall, Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
Yale University Press, 2007).
Joyce E. Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-Ame
1500-1676 (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2001).
Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial Bri
World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (C
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English
1700 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (N
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Cambridge, Ma
Harvard University Press, 1990).
Martin Bruckner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and Nati
(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in
(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006 ).
Kathleen M. Brown, Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (New Haven: Yale Univers
Fred Anderson, The War that Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian W
Viking, 2005).
Zuckerman, Michael. Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth
Century, New York: Norton, 1970.