Early American Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Material


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Alexander, Michael, ed. Discovering the New World, Based on the Works of  Theodore de Bry.  New York: Harper & Row, 1976. 

Ammerman, David L., and Philip D. Morgan. Books About Early America: 2001 Titles. Williamsburg: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1989.

Bercht, Fatima, et al.  Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean. New York: Monacelli, 1997.

Bucher, Bernadette.  Icon and Conquest: A Structural Analysis of the Illustrations of de Bry’s Great Voyages. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981. 

Chiappelli, Fredi, ed.  First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old.   Berkeley: U of California P, 1976. 

Clancy, Flora, et al.  Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985. 

Coe, Ralph T. Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art. London:  Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976.

Conley, Tom. “De Bry’s Las Casas.”  Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus. Ed. Rene Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 103-31.  

Craven, Wayne. American Art: History and Culture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.

---. Colonial American Portraiture: The Economic, Religious, Social, Philosophical, Scientific, and Aesthetic Foundations. New York: Cambridge UP, 1986. 

Diaz, Gisele, and Alan Rodgers. The Codex Borgia. New York: Dover, 1993.

Doggett, Rachel, ed.  New World of Wonders: European Images of the Americas, 1492-1700. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. 

Emmerich, Andre. Art Before Columbus. New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Flexner, James T. American Painting: The Light of Distant Skies, 1760-1835. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954. 

Gruzinski, Serge. Painting the Conquest: The  Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance. Paris: Flammarion, 1992.

Honour, Hugh. The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time. New York: Pantheon, 1975. 

Hulton, Paul. America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: U of North  Carolina P, 1984. 

Moffitt, John F., and Santiago Sebastian. O Brave New People: The European Invention of the  American Indian. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1996.  

Lacey, Barbara E. “Visual Images of Blacks in Early American Imprints.” William and Mary  Quarterly 53.1 (1996): 137-80. 

Lorant, Stefan, ed.  The New World: The First Pictures of America Made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne and Engraved by Theodore De Bry. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946.

McElroy, Guy C. Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940. San  Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1990. 

Montgomery, Charles F., and Patricia E. Kane. American Art, 1750-1800: Towards Independence. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976.

Nygren, Edward J., and Bruce Robertson. Views and Visions: American Landscape before 1830.  Washington: Corcoran Gallery, 1986. 

Parry, Ellwood. The Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art, 1590-1900. New York: Braziller, 1974. 

Saunders, Richard H., and Ellen G. Miles. American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776. Washington: Smithsonian, 1987. 

Schele, Linda, and Mary Ellen Miller. The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art. New York: Braziller, 1986.

Stierlin, Henri. Art of the Maya: From the Olmecs to the Toltec-Maya. New York: Rizzoli, 1981.

Truettner, William H., ed. The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820- 1920. Washington: Smithsonian, 1991. 


The bibliographies were originally compiled by Prof. Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University, and are currently updated and sponsored by Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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