Herewith, some new releases for your spring/summer reading list—share your finds in the comments!
Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman, eds., Contested Spaces in Early America
Nicolas Barreyre, Michael Heale, Stephen Tuck, Cécile Vidal, eds., Historians across Borders: Writing American History in a Global Age
Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, eds., Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Intercultural Transfers, Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities
Elaine G. Breslaw, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America
Russ Castronovo, Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America
Guy Chet, The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856
Katy L. Chiles, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America
Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover, eds. Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Maura D’Amore, Suburban Plots: Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture
Sari Edelstein, Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing
Edmund Fawcett, Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
Mary Babson Fuhrer, A Crisis of Community: The Trials and Transformation of a New England Town, 1815-1848
Sylvia Sellers-García, Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire’s Periphery
Matthew Garrett, Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution
Jenna M. Gibbs, Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850
Simon Gikandi, Slavery and the Culture of Taste
David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds., The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War
Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor, eds., A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams
Audrey Horning, Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack, eds., Britain’s Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society, 1715-1815
Cindy R. Lobel, Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Elizabeth McKellar, Landscapes of London: The City, the Country, and the Suburbs, 1660–1840
Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault, eds., Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake
Christian Montès, American Capitals: A Historical Geography
Susan Nance, How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1935
Aimee E. Newell, A Stitch in Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America
Jürgen Osterhammel, transl. by Patrick Camiller, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
Phillip Papas, Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee
Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., and William Robert Judd, The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom
David M. Powers, From Plantation to Paradise? Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764–1789
Sandra Rebok, Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment
Jennifer L. Roberts, Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America
Daniel T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920
Aaron Sachs, Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
Susanah Shaw Romney, New Netherland Connections: intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Iris Idelson-Shein, Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century
Emily Berquist Soule, The Bishop’s Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru
Barry L. Stiefel, Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History
Steven M. Stowe, Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Margaret Sumner, Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America
Charles F. Walker, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
Stephen Warren, The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
Mary McCartin Wearn, Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion: Lived Theologies and Literature
Kelly Wisecup, “Good News from New England” by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition
Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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I’ll be reading for exams this summer, so my summer reading list will perhaps resemble the Junto March Madness tounarments than a list like this… But here are a few recent books that have caught my eye:
Onuf and Newman, eds., Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions (UVA Press) http://www.amazon.com/Paine-Jefferson-Revolutions-Jeffersonian-America/dp/0813934761
Jace Weaver, The Red Atlantic: American indigenes and the making of the modern world, 1000-1927 (UNC Press) http://www.amazon.com/dp/1469614383/
Daniel Peart, Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic (UVA Press) http://www.amazon.com/Era-Experimentation-Political-Practices-Jeffersonian/dp/0813935601
Robert Tsai, America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community (Harvard Press) http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Forgotten-Constitutions-Defiant-Community/dp/0674059956
A couple works on slavery and abolition I will be reading this summer include:
David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
Greg Gandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
I’ll be reading in support of a new book project this summer:
Heather Miyano Kopleson, Faithful Bodies: Performing Race and Religion in the Puritan Atlantic: http://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Bodies-Performing-Religion-Atlantic/dp/1479805009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398886062&sr=8-1&keywords=Heather+Miyano+Kopelson
Andrew S. Curran, The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment: http://www.amazon.com/The-Anatomy-Blackness-Science-Enlightenment/dp/1421409658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398886210&sr=8-1&keywords=Andrew+Curran
Sylvianie A. Diouf, Freedom’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons:
Thanks for helping me find some books to add to my summer reading list. Not sure if my wallet will thank you though.
One I’m looking forward to:
Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
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