Reviews

Author:

Rebecca Brannon

Reviewer:

Jason Stroud

Stroud on Brannon, 'From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists'

Rebecca Brannon. From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. Illustrations. 232 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-668-1.

Reviewed by Jason Stroud (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) Published on H-Early-America (May, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)

Author:

Melvin Yazawa

Reviewer:

Kevin Butterfield

Butterfield on Yazawa, 'Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787-1789'

Melvin Yazawa. Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787-1789. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 312 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-2026-4.

Reviewed by Kevin Butterfield (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Early-America (April, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)

Author:

Brian Yothers

Reviewer:

Faith Barter

Barter on Yothers, 'Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass'

Brian Yothers. Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass. Studies in American Literature and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective Series. Rochester: Camden House, 2016. 200 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57113-577-3.

Reviewed by Faith Barter (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-Early-America (April, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)

Author:

Alejandra Dubcovsky

Reviewer:

Sean P. Harvey

Harvey on Dubcovsky, 'Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South'

Alejandra Dubcovsky. Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 287 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66018-2.

Reviewed by Sean P. Harvey (Seton Hall University) Published on H-Early-America (March, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)

Author:

Michele Currie Navakas

Reviewer:

John Nelson

Nelson on Navakas, 'Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America'

Michele Currie Navakas. Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 248 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4956-9.

Reviewed by John Nelson (University of Notre Dame) Published on H-Early-America (January, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers

Author:

Patrick Griffin, ed.

Reviewer:

Shira Lurie

Lurie on Griffin, 'Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America'

Patrick Griffin, ed. Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 280 pp. $39.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-3989-6; $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3988-9.

Reviewed by Shira Lurie (University of Virginia) Published on H-Early-America (December, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers

Author:

John Wareing

Reviewer:

G. Patrick O'Brien

O'Brien on Wareing, 'Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718'

John Wareing. Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718. Oxford: Oxford University Press, February 2017. 352 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-878890-4.

Reviewed by G. Patrick O'Brien (University of South Carolina) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers

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Author:

Robert G. Parkinson

Reviewer:

Anna Leigh Todd

Todd on Parkinson, 'The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution'

Robert G. Parkinson. The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xi + 742 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2663-5.

Reviewed by Anna Leigh Todd (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers

Author:

Rebecca Anne Goetz

Reviewer:

Jeffrey T. Perry

Perry on Goetz, 'The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race'

Rebecca Anne Goetz. The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-1981-7.

Reviewed by Jeffrey T. Perry (Florida Gulf Coast University) Published on H-Early-America (October, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers

Author:

Bonnie Martin, James F. Brooks, eds.

Reviewer:

Garrett W. Wright

Wright on Martin and Brooks, 'Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands'

Bonnie Martin, James F. Brooks, eds. Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands. School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2015. Illustrations. 416 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-938645-60-0.

Author:

Jennifer Van Horn

Reviewer:

Laurel Daen

Daen on Van Horn, 'The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America'

Jennifer Van Horn. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 456 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2956-8.

Reviewed by Laurel Daen (Massachusetts Historical Society) Published on H-Early-America (September, 2017) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers

Author:

Kathleen M. Brown

Reviewer:

Janet L. Coryell

Coryell on Brown, 'Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia'

Kathleen M. Brown. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi + 496 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-4623-0; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2307-1.

Reviewed by Janet L. Coryell (Western Michigan University) Published on H-OIEAHC (January, 1997)

Author:

Michael P. Winship

Reviewer:

Sara Errington

Errington on Winship, 'Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment'

Michael P. Winship. Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 226 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-5137-7.

Reviewed by Sara Errington (Brown University) Published on H-OIEAHC (December, 1996)

Author:

Conrad Edick Wright

Reviewer:

John D. Saillant

Saillant on Wright, 'The Transformation of Charity in Postrevolutionary New England'

Conrad Edick Wright. The Transformation of Charity in Postrevolutionary New England. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1992. x + 330 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-55553-123-2.

Reviewed by John D. Saillant (Western Michigan University) Published on H-OIEAHC (March, 1996)

Reviewer:

John D. Saillant

Saillant on , 'Metropolis: A Multimedia History of Western Civilization from the Neolithic to the Global Village'

Metropolis: A Multimedia History of Western Civilization from the Neolithic to the Global Village. Metropolitan Arts, Inc.. .

Reviewed by John D. Saillant Published on H-OIEAHC (March, 1994)

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Stroud on Brannon, 'From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists'

Butterfield on Yazawa, 'Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787-1789'

Barter on Yothers, 'Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass'

Harvey on Dubcovsky, 'Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South'

Nelson on Navakas, 'Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America'

Lurie on Griffin, 'Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America'

O'Brien on Wareing, 'Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718'

Todd on Parkinson, 'The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution'

Perry on Goetz, 'The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race'

Wright on Martin and Brooks, 'Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands'

Daen on Van Horn, 'The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America'

Coryell on Brown, 'Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia'

Errington on Winship, 'Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment'

Saillant on Wright, 'The Transformation of Charity in Postrevolutionary New England'

Saillant on , 'Metropolis: A Multimedia History of Western Civilization from the Neolithic to the Global Village'

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