Colonial America and the Early Republic

Philip N. Mulder is Associate Professor of History at High Point University, USA.

• Contents: Introduction; The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans, Neal Salisbury ; 'This evil extends especially ...the feminine sex': negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, James F. Brookes; King Philip's herds: Indians, colonists, and the problem of livestock in early New England, Virginia DeJohn Anderson; Women and property across colonial America: a comparison of legal systems in New Mexico and New York, Deborah A. Rosen; Taking possession and reading texts: establishing the authority of overseas empires, Patricia Seed; Reading the runaways: self-fashioning, print culture, and confidence in slavery in 18th-century mid-Atlantic, David Waldstreicher; 'Damned scoundrels' and 'libertisme of trade': freedom and regulation in colonial New York's fur and grain trades, Cathy Matson; 'Baubles of Britain': the American consumer revolutions of the 18th century, T.H. Breen; Patriarchy reborn: the gendering of authority in the evangelical Church in revolutionary New England, Susan M. Juster; Food rioters and the American Revolution, Barbara Clark Smith; Between slavery and freedom: Virginia blacks in the American Revolution, Sylvia R. Frey; John Adams, diplomat, John Ferling; Thinking like a constitution, Jack N. Rakove; 'Of every age sex and condition': the representation of women in the constitution, Jan Lewis; Slander, poison, whispers, and fame: Jefferson's 'Anas' and political gossip in the early republic, Joanne B. Freeman; Rites of rebellion, rites of assent: celebrations, print, culture and the origins of American nationalism, David Waldstreicher; Liberty, development, and union: visions of the West in the 1780s, Peter S. Onuf; Thinking and believing: nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh, Gregory E. Dowd; Name index.