Finding Colonial
Americas : Essays Honoring J.A. Leo Lemay
Edited by Carla Mulford
and David S. Shields
Description Forthcoming
Hardcover (June 2001)
ISBN: 0874137225
THE LIBRARY OF JOHN
MONTGOMERIE, COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
Edited by KEVIN J.
HAYES
History has treated Governor John Montgomerie unfairly, for he
has often been denigrated for a lack of
learning. The surviving manuscript inventory of Montgomerie's
library, however, shows that this estimate
of Montgomerie's intellectual abilities can no longer stand.
While the inventory reveals much about
Montgomerie's attitudes toward learning and literature, it is
perhaps more important because most of the
books are listed underneath purchasers' names. This list of
buyers included men who would influence the
two colonies for the next several decades. Montgomerie's books
exerted a lasting impact on the thought
of colonial New York's political and intellectual elite. The
Library of John Montgomerie reconstructs
Montgomerie's library, based on the surviving estate inventory.
This catalogue is an important
contribution to the intellectual history of early America. Kevin
J. Hayes received his Ph.D. from the
University of Delaware and is Associate Professor of English at
the University of Central Oklahoma.
ISBN 0-87413-711-X $35.00
ITINERANT OBSERVATIONS IN AMERICA
Edited by Kevin J. Hayes
Itinerant Observations in America presents a vivid
record of life in colonial America that is filled with poetic
imagery and realistic and original descriptions of towns,
buildings,
and fortifications. This and the complimentary poems Kimber wrote
during his American excursion are highly crafted
works. Kimber produced a delightful factual account interspersed
with rhapsodic descriptions of the natural environment
and containing a thrilling sea voyage.
ISBN 0-87413-631-8 $29.50
June 4, 2001