Just in time for your holiday shopping list, here’s our preview of new titles—share your finds in the comments!
Robert J. Andrews, The Journals of Jeffery Amherst, 1757-1763, Volume 1: The Daily and Personal Journals
Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds., Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States
Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey, Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection
Andrew D. M. Beaumont, Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761
Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley, eds., The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn
Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown, Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Kyle T. Bulthius, Four Steeples over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations
Nathalie Dessens, Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans
Sara Fanning, Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement
Anne Sinkler Fishburne, Belvidere: A Plantation Memory, Commemorative Edition
Linford D. Fisher, J. Stanley Lemons, and Lucas Mason-Brown, Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island’s Founding Father
Raphael Brester Folsom, The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico
Eric Foner, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Mark Fortier, The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America
Thomas A. Foster, ed., Women in Early America
Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Ken Albala, eds., Food in Time and Place:
The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Cécile Fromont, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Malcolm Gaskill, Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
Cassandra A. Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic
Katherine Grandjean, American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England
Sean P. Harvey, Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation
Alexander B. Haskell, For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Ben Herzog, Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Jonathan Horn, The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
William Huntting Howell, Against Self Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
John M. Hutchins, Coronado’s Well-Equipped Army: The Spanish Invasion of the American Southwest
Jaap Jacobs and L. H. Roper, eds., The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley
George Kateb, Lincoln’s Political Thought
Tracy Neal Leavelle, The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America
Brian P. Luskey and Wendy Woloson, eds., Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America
Fiona MacCarthy, Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860–1960
Kevin P. McDonald, Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World
Robert Middlekauff, Washington’s Revolution: The Making of America’s First Leader
Robert Michael Morrissey, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, Governments in Colonial Illinois Country
Amber D. Moulton, The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts
Matthew Mulcahy, Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
Michael Leroy Oberg, Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
Andrew Oliver, American Travelers on the Nile: Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839
Lindsay O’Neill, The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World
Jessica M. Parr, Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
Jessica Choppin Roney, Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Decorah A. Rosen, Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood
Virginia Scharff, ed., Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West
Ethan A. Schmidt, The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
Calvin Schermerhorn, The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
John Howard Smith, The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725-1775
David O. Stewart, Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
Abigail L. Swingen, Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
John R. Van Atta, Wolf by the Ears: The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Emily West, Enslaved Women in America: From Colonial Times to Emancipation
Glenn F. Williams, Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era
Lisa Wilson, A History of Stepfamilies in Early America
I’d add Edward Larson’s The Return of George Washington, which covers his political activity during the critical period, convention and ratification.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/transition-years_820214.html
A bit self-promoting, but I’d add my book, which focuses on the early Washington administration and attitudes toward the presidency & executive power in the political and popular cultures at the beginning of Constitutional governance: For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789 (Cornell, 2014). To get a taste, here’s a link to an op-ed I wrote for the Boston Globe, September 21, 2014: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/09/19/his-elective-highness-president-barack-obama/llWb9GSBFiIUp5ex1T6JCL/story.html?p1=Article_InThisSection_Bottom
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The Junto has a wonderful list of early American history books for the holidays. Check it out and see if some these books should be on your wish list.
Don’t forget Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton
Eric Nelson’s “The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding” is worth a look, too. Previewed in a great forum on “Patriot Royalism” in the WMQ a few years back.
I’m very curious about that title. It seems that he’s making a very similar argument to Jack Greene’s in some respects.
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