September 22, 2004
HISTORIOGRAPHY, III
PROVINCIAL AMERICA
Required:
Ian K. Steele, "Exploding Colonial American History: Amerindian, Atlantic and Global Perspectives," Reviews in American History 26 (1988), 70-95.
Gordon S. Wood, "A Century of Writing Early American History: Then and
Now Compared; Or How Henry Adams Got It Wrong," American Historical
Review 100 (June 1995), 678-696.
Recommended:
Thomas Bender, Community and Social Change in America (1978)
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the
Ecology of New England (1983)
Philip Greven, Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in
Colonial Andover, Massachusetts (1970)
James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century
Chesapeake (1994)
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982)
Darrett B. Rutman & Ann H. Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex
County Virginia, 1650-1750 (1984)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard
Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990)
Michael Zuckerman, Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the
Eighteenth Century (1970)