This section contains a list of recent books relevant to the field of Early American studies, organized by publisher. For information about a title listed below, click on the name of the press and you will find a detailed description of the book, information about how to order it, and a link to the publisher's home page.
Cornell University Press
- A History of the Book in America: Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, Edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall
- Colin Kidd, British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600?1800
- Thomas J. Scanlan, Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire
- The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume III: South America,Parts 1 and 2, Edited by Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz
- Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
- Robert V. Wells, Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990
Duke University Press
- Elizabeth Reis, DAMNED WOMEN: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
- Karin Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia
- Timothy J. Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754
Harvard University Press
- Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America
- Milton C. Sernett, African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness
Indiana University Press
- Andrew Delbanco, THE REAL AMERICAN DREAM: A Meditation on Hope
- Anthony F. C. Wallace, JEFFERSON AND THE INDIANS: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans
- Paul C. Nagel, THE ADAMS WOMEN: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters
- African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography, Edited by James P. Danky
The Johns Hopkins University Press
- John R. Fitzmier, New England's Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight 1752-1817
Louisiana State University Press
- Erik R. Seeman, PIOUS PERSUASIONS: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England
- John Kuo Wei Tchen, NEW YORK BEFORE CHINATOWN: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882
- James D. Hartman, Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature
- Warren Boeschenstein, Historic American Towns along the Atlantic Coast
- Edwin Tunis, Colonial Craftsmen And the Beginnings of American Industry
- Edwin Tunis, Colonial Living
- Joel Williamson, New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
Michigan State University Press
- American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture, Edited by Jules Prown and Kenneth Haltman
- Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s, Edited by Linda Lang-Peralta
- W. J. Eccles, The French in the Americas, 1500-1765
- Nancy L. Rhoden, Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy during the American Revolution
- Andrew Stephen Walmsley, Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution
- Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800
- Women's Voices, Women's Lives Documents in Early American History, Edited by Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz
- Christopher D. Felker, Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance: Magnalia Christi Americana in Hawthorne, Stowe, and Stoddard
- Recollections of the Early Republic Selected Autobiographies, Edited by Joyce Appleby
- Salem-Village Witchcraft A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England, Edited by Stephen Nissenbaum and Paul Boyer
Northern Illinois University Press
- Stephen Carl Arch, Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England
- James F. Cooper, Jr., Tenacious of Their Liberty: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts
- Religion in Colonial America, Edited by Jon Butler
- Roger G. Kennedy, Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character
- Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden, 2nd ed.
- David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, Reprint with new Preface
- John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
- James Perrin Warren, Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America
- Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade In Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
- In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and North America, Edited by Hartmut Lehmann, Hermann Wellenreuther, and Renate Wilson
- Edward G. Gray, New World Babel:Languages and Nations in Early America
- Dee E. Andrews, The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture
- Jim Egan, Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing
- Frank Lambert, Inventing the "Great Awakening"
State University of New York Press
- Laura Henigman, COMING INTO COMMUNION: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England
- Marilyn C. Wesley, Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature
- Phillip Wearne, Return of the Indian: Conquest and Revival in the Americas
- Leonard W. Levy, ORIGINS OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS
- Lisa Wilson, Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England
- The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Sermons and Discourses, 1730?1733, Edited by Mark Valeri
- The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach, Kenneth P. Minkema, Douglas A. Sweeney
- Jonathan Edwards Volume 16: Letters and Personal Writings, Edited by George S. Claghorn
- Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory, Edited by William H. Truettner and Roger Stein
- The Works of Jonathan Edwards Volume 15: Notes on Scripture, Edited by Stephen J. Stein
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- The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150-1350, Edited by Michael A. Adler
- Ronald H. Towner and Byron P. Johnson, Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century Navajo Population Dynamics in the Dinétah Archaeological and Dendrochronological Investigations in San Rafael Canyon
- Whittington B. Johnson, Black Savannah, 1788-1864
University of California Press
- Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians
- Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777, Edited by Thomas W. Krise
- Roland Greene, Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas
- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
- White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives, Edited by Paul Baepler
- Harvey Levenstein, Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age
- Jane Harrington Scott, A Gentleman as Well as a Whig: Caesar Rodney and the American Revolution
- Elizabeth Jane Hinds, Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue
- Kerry S. Walters, Benjamin Franklin and His Gods
My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, Edited by Neal O. Hammon William J. Scheick, Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America
University Press of Mississippi
- Amanda Carson Banks, Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine
- Virginia Bernhard, Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782
The University Press of New England
- So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip’s War, 1676—1677, Edited by Richard Slotkin and James K. Folsom. Back in Print
- John Warner Barber, Connecticut Historical Collections. Back in Print
University of North Carolina Press & Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Woody Holton, Forced Founders Indians, Debtors, Slaves, & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
- Saul Cornell, The Other Founders Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
- Jeffrey Robert Young, Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
- Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (re-released)
- Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision, Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers and Margaret Beck Pritchard
- Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson, North Carolina Women: Making History.
- Christopher Grasso, A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
- Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary, Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
University of Notre Dame Press
- Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature 2000, Edited by Thomas S. Engeman
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University of Pennsylvania Press
- The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Edited by Nathan G. Goodman
- Counterfeiting in Colonial America, Kenneth Scott. Foreword by David R. Johnson
- Simon P. Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street Festive Culture in the Early American Republic
- George E. Thomas and David B. Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania
- Pamela Regis, Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevecouer, and the Influences of Natural History
- William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History, Edited by Jean R. Soderlund
- Empire and Others British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850, Edited by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern
- Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
- The Peoples of Philadelphia A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940, Edited by Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller
- Brandon Brame Fortune and Deborah J. Warner, Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America
- Ellen Eslinger, Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism
- Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables, Edited by David Scofield Wilson and Angus Kress Gillespie
- Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson's Empire The Language of American Nationhood
- Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, Edited by Peter S. Onuf and Jan E. Lewis
- Carl R. Lounsbury, An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape
- A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic, Edited by Donald R.Kennon
- Native Americans and the Early Republic, Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert
- Wisconsin Project on American Writers, Edited by Frank Lentricchia
- Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography, Edited by William L. Andrews
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- Perspectives on American Religion and Culture: A Reader, Edited by Peter M. Williams
- Graham Hodges, Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers
- Encyclopedia of American Literature, Edited by Steven Seratin, General Editor and Alfred Bendixen, Associate Editor. Continuum Press, 1999. 1000 entries, 1300 pages.
- Ethan Allen, The Narrative of the Captivity of Col. Ethaa Allen, Edited by Stephen Carl Arch
- Susannah Haswell Rowson, Slaves in Algiers, Edited by Jennifer Margulis and Karen Poremski
Hill and Wang
- Andrew Burstein, Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image
Bruccoli Clark Layman
- American Women Prose Writers to 1820, Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 200, Edited by Carla Mulford
- American Sermons - The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr., Edited by Michael Warner
- Charles Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels, Edited by Sydney J. Krause
- The Norton Book of American Autobiography, Edited by Jay Parini
- The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Edited by Henry Louis Gates, William L. Andrews et al.
- George Fox, The Journal, Edited by Nigel Smith
- John Ensor Harr, Dark Eagle: A Story of Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution
- Charles Tyng, Before the Wind : The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833, Edited by Susan Fels, Preface by William La Moy
- Gilbert Imlay, The Emigrants, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Amanda Gilroy and W.M. Verhoeven
- June Sprigg, Simple Gifts: A Memoir of a Shaker Village
- Over the Threshold Intimate Violence in Early America, Edited by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy
- Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions
- Ann Uhry Abrams, The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin
- Pauline Turner Strong, Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives
- Philip McFarland, The Brave Bostonians: Hutchinson, Quincy, Franklin, and the Coming of the American Revolution
- Thomas Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America
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The SEA Publications page was originally created by Prof. Michael P. Clark , University of California, Irvine, and is coordinated by Asst. Prof. Susan Clair Imbarrato, Minnesota State University Moorhead. If you have suggestions or know of a book or journal that should be listed here, please contact her at : simbarra@mnstate.edu
Update: September 15, 2003