Carla Cevasco.
Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. xii + 241 pp.
$50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-25134-0. 
Reviewed by Anthony Trujillo (Harvard University) Published on H-Early-America (February, 2023) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)
Erik R. Seeman.
Speaking with the Dead in Early America.
Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 344 pp.
$24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8122-2518-1.
Bruce A. Ragsdale.
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. vii + 358 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24638-6.
Jan Ellen Lewis.
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis.
Edited by Barry Bienstock, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Peter S. Onuf. Williamsburg: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021. Illustrations. 432 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6563-4.
Julie Flavell.
The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women behind Britain's Wars for America.
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2021. xiii + 462 pp. Ill.
$26.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-63149-061-3.
Dael A. Norwood.
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
American Beginnings, 1500-1900 Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Illustrations. 312 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-81558-9.
Willard Sterne Randall.
The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America.
New York: Dutton, 2022. x + 325 pp.
$29.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5247-4592-9.
Emily Pears. Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History. American Political Thought Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. 328 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-3278-7.
Reviewed by Melinda Lawson (Union College) Published on H-Early-America (December, 2022) Commissioned by Troy Bickham (Texas A&M University)
Ballard C. Campbell. The Paradox of Power: Statebuilding in America, 1754-1920. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. 392 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-3256-5.
Reviewed by Thomas Cox (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-Early-America (December, 2022) Commissioned by Troy Bickham (Texas A&M University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57477
Susan H. Brandt.
Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia.
Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Illustrations. 312 pp.
$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5386-3.
Mark A. Tabbert.
A Deserving Brother: George Washington and Freemasonry.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. 304 pp.
$33.81 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4721-1.
Caroline Wigginton, Abram Van Engen, eds. Feeling Godly: Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. vii + 185 pp.
Jared Ross Hardesty.
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate.
New York: New York University Press, 2021. xii + 267 pp.
$25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-1248-6.
Lee B. Wilson. Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783. Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49525-7.
Reviewed by Frances Bell (College of William and Mary) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2022) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)
Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2022. 384 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-6485-9; $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6484-2.
Reviewed by Brandon Dean (Wayne State University) Published on H-Early-America (October, 2022) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)
