History 901, sec. 2 Charles L. Cohen
Fall, 1994 4115 Humanities
Tu 1:20-3:20 263-1956, -1800
Room: TBA Office hours: Tu 8:15-9:15,
Th 11:00-12:00, and by appt.
Email: clcohen@macc.wisc.edu
clcohen@wiscmacc.bitnet
Colonial British America is the most studied colonial society in the world. Perhaps at the end of this course you will understand how, if not why.
Readings
Each week everyone will read the core assignment. Beginning in the second week, each person will also select an item from the list of secondary titles; there will be no duplication of secondary readings. Generally, an individual will be free to choose the work that most interests him/her, but some "volunteers" may be sacrificed to ensure that interpretive diversity prevails.
All books assigned as core readings are available for purchase at the University Book Store and have also been placed on three-hour reserve at the State Historical Library for the semester. Monographs in the Library's collection are also on reserve, and non-circulating copies of a few journals (e.g. Journal of American History) live in the Reading Room. Changes in the Library's ability to handle reserve materials means that items outside these categories will not be reserved, but can be found either in the Society Library or elsewhere on campus.
Written Assignments
You will write three papers, 7-8 pages, typed, double-spaced. You may choose which two of the first four papers to confront, but everyone must write the final essay. You need advert only to course readings but may include any relevant materials. If you wish to write on a different topic, please discuss your proposal with me.
DUE FRIDAY, SEPT. 30 - Discuss the circumstances - cultural, geographical,
economic, diplomatic, etc. - governing the interactions between settlers
and Amerindians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
DUE FRIDAY, OCT. 21 - Discuss the roles slaves played in forming and
developing southern colonial societies.
DUE FRIDAY, NOV. 4 - What impact did inclusion in a transatlantic market
economy (whatever that is) have on Britain's North American colonies?
DUE FRIDAY, DEC. 2 - Explain how Anglo-American ideologies configured colonial
politics.
DUE MONDAY, DEC. 19 - Identify some major themes in the history of colonial
British North America and assess the utility of using the concepts
"frontier" and "core and periphery" to interpret them.
REWRITE POLICY
You may rewrite either or both of the first two assigned papers (time constraints prohibit rewriting the final one), but only after talking with me about such details as the new due date and the kinds of changes to be made. You must inform me of your decision to rewrite a paper by the Friday following the class session at which I first return the original version. You will ordinarily receive one week to rewrite, but I will be flexible about negotiating extensions for good cause. The old draft (plus any separate sheet of comments) must accompany the new version. Rewriting cannot lower your grade (nor can changing your mind about handing in a revised paper), but it does not by itself guarantee a higher one; you must substantially rework the essay, following my comments and initiating your own improvements too.
Grading
Simplicity itself. The papers and class discussion each count 25%.
Incompletes
The Gendzel Protocol governs the assigning of Incompletes: in fairness to those students who turn their work in on time, I will not grant an Incomplete for reasons other than Acts of God or other extraordinary disasters (covered in the Proclamation, p. 17 below). You may have an Incomplete without penalty only in such cases; in all other instances, an Incomplete carries a grade penalty of +-step.
I. INTRODUCTION
Sept. 6 - Varieties of Societies
Core reading: Jack P. Greene, Pursuits of Happiness; Joyce Appleby, "A
Different Kind of Independence: The Postwar Restructuring of the
Historical Study of Early America," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser.,
50 (1993), 245-67
II. FRONTIERS
Sept. 13 - A League of Their Own
Core reading: Daniel K. Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of
the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
Overviews
Timothy Breen, "Creative Adaptations: People and Cultures," in Jack P.
Greene and J. R. Pole, eds., Colonial British America, 195-232
James H. Merrell, "'The Customes of Our Countrey': Indians and Colonists
in Early America," in Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, eds.,
Strangers Within the Realm, 117-156
Daniel K. Richter, "Where Indian History?" William and Mary Quarterly, 3d
ser., 50 (1993), 379-93
Cross-cultural Perspective
Ida Altman and Reginald D. Butler, "The Contact of Cultures: Perspectives
on the Quincentenary," American Historical Review, 99 (1994), 478-503
Daniel K. Richter, et al., articles on "Indian Conflicts and Alliances,"
in Jacob Ernest Cooke, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the North
American Colonies, II, 223-69
Social and Political Organization
Matthew Dennis, Cultivating a Landscape of Peace, 76-115
William N. Fenton, "Northern Iroquoian Culture Patterns," in Bruce G.
Trigger, ed., Handbook of North American Indians: Vol. 15:
Northeast, 296-321
Elisabeth Tooker, "Women in Iroquois Society," in Michael K. Foster, et
al., Extending the Rafters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to
Iroquoian Studies, 109-23
Anthony F.C. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, 21-48
Warfare and Diplomacy
Richard Aquila, The Iroquois Restoration, 85-128
William N. Fenton, "Structure, Continuity, and Change in the Process of
Iroquois Treaty Making," in Francis Jennings, et al., eds., The
History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy, 3-36
Barbara Graymont, The Iroquois in the American Revolution, 26-47
George Hunt, The Wars of the Iroquois, 66-86
Francis Jennings, The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire, 84-112
Francis Jennings, EMPIRE OF FORTUNE, 71-108
Francis Jennings, "Iroquois Alliances in American History," in Francis
Jennings, et al., eds., The History and Culture of Iroquois
Diplomacy, 37-65
James H. Merrill, "'Their Very Bones Shall Fight': The Catawba-Iroquois
Wars," in Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrill, eds., The Covenant
Chain, 115-33
Neal Salisbury, "Toward the Covenant Chain: Iroquois and Southern New
England Algonquians, 1637-1684," in Daniel K. Richter and James H.
Merrill, eds., The Covenant Chain, 61-73
Stephen Saunders Webb, 1676: The End of American Independence, 355-404
Sept. 20 - Markets in the Middle Ground
Core reading: Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier
Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783
Secondary reading:
Overview
Gregory Nobles, "Breaking into the Backcountry: New Approaches to the
Early American Frontier," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 46
(1989), 641-70
Patterns of Economic Interaction
James Axtell, "At the Water's Edge: Trading in the Sixteenth Century," in
idem, After Columbus, 144-81
James Axtell, "The First Consumer Revolution," in idem, Beyond 1492, 125-
51
Kathryn E. Holland Braund, Deerskins & Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade
with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, 139-64
Tom Hatley, The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through
the Era of Revolution, 32-63
James H. Merrill, The Indians' New World, 49-91
Christopher L. Miller and George R. Hamell, "A New Perspective on Indian-
White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade," Journal of
American History, 73 (1986), 311-28
Timothy Silver, A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and
Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800, 67-103
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the
Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, 94-141
Cultures in the Southwest
David Corkran, The Creek Frontier, 116-30
Patricia Galloway, "'The Chief Who is Your Father': Choctaw and French
Views of the Diplomatic Relation," in Peter H. Wood, et al.,
Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, 254-78
Arrell M. Gibson, The Chickasaws, 31-57
Fred B. Kniffen, et al., The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana, 44-82
Patricia Dillon Woods, French-Indian Relations on the Southern Frontier,
1699-1762, 65-93
J. Leitch Wright, Creoles and Seminoles, 101-27
French Louisiana
Math Allain, "Not Worth a Straw": French Colonial Policy and the Early
Years of Louisiana, 70-91
Carl A. Brasseux, "The Administration of Slave Regulations in French
Louisiana, 1724-1766," Louisiana History, 21 (1980), 127-58
John G. Clark, New Orleans 1718-1812: An Economic History, 126-48
Marcel Giraud, History of French Louisiana, I, 335-69
Thomas N. Ingersoll, "Free Blacks in a Slave Society: New Orleans, 1718-
1812," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 48 (1991), 173-200
Sept. 27 - Fort Deerfield
Core reading: Richard Melvoin, New England Outpost
Secondary reading:
Political organization
Edward M. Cook, Jr., The Fathers of the Towns, 165-83
Bruce Daniels, The Connecticut Town, 119-39, 171-80
David Konig, Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts, 117-35
Michael J. Puglisi, Puritans Besieged: The Legacies of King Philip's War
in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 58-83
Michael Zuckerman, Peaceable Kingdoms, 123-53
Land Patterns and Settlement
David Grayson Allen, In English Ways, 55-81
William Cronon, Changes in the Land, 54-81
John Frederick Martin, Profits in the Wilderness, 217-237
Gregory H. Nobles, "Straight Lines and Stability: Mapping the Political
Order of Anglo-America," Journal of American History, 80 (1993), 9-
35
Sumner Chilton Powell, Puritan Village, 92-116
Captivities
James Axtell, The Invasion Within, 302-327
Rosalie Murphy Baum, "John Williams's Captivity Narrative: A
Consideration of Normative Ethnicity," in Frank Shuffleton, ed., A
Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America, 56-76
John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive, 55-76
Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence, 94-115
Alden T. Vaughan and Daniel K. Richter, "Crossing the Cultural Divide:
Indians and New Englanders, 1605-1763," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society, 90 (1980), 23-99
Warfare
Thomas E. Burke, Jr., Mohawk Frontier: The Dutch Community of
Schenectady, New York, 1661-1710, 68-108
Colin G. Calloway, The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800, 90-112
John Morgan Dederer, War in America to 1775, 112-44
Douglas Leach, Arms for Empire, 1-42
Harold Selesky, War & Society in Colonial Connecticut, 3-32 III. SLAVERY
Oct. 4 - The Sot-Weed Factor
Core reading: Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Secondary reading:
Overview
Anita H. Rutman, "Still Planting the Seeds of Hope: The Recent Literature
of the Early Chesapeake Region," Va. Mag. His. Bio., 95 (1987), 3-24
Early Settlement
Nicholas Canny, "The Permissive Frontier: The Problem of Socvial Control
in English Settlements in Ireland and Virginia, 1550-1650," in K.A.
Andrews, et al., The Westward Enterprise, 17-44
David Ransome, "Wives for Virginia, 1621," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d
ser., 48 (1991), 3-18
Helen C. Rountree, "The Powhatans and the English: A Case of Multiple
Conflicting Agendas," in idem, ed., Powhatan Foreign Relations 1500-
1722, 173-205
Social Organization and Political Stability
Bernard Bailyn, "Politics and Social Structure in Virginia," in James
Morton Smith, ed., Seventeenth-Century America, 90-115
John Kukla, "Order and Chaos in Early America: Political and Social
Stability in Pre-Restoration Virginia," American Historical Review,
90 (1985), 275-98
Carole Shammas, "English-Born and Creole Elites in Turn-of-the-Century
Virginia," in Thad Tate and David Ammerman, The Chesapeake in the
Seventeenth Century, 274-96
Martin H. Quitt, "Immigrant Origins of the Virginia Gentry: A Study of
Cultural Transmission and Innovation," William and Mary Quarterly,
3d ser., 45 (1988), 629-55
Blacks and Slavery
Timothy Breen and Stephen Innes, "Myne Own Ground," 68-109
Kathleen Mary Brown, "Gender and the Genesis of a Race & Class System in
Virginia, 1630-1750," PhD dissertation, UW-Madison (1990), chap. 3
Douglas Deal, "A Constricted World: Free Blacks on Virginia's Eastern
Shore, 1680-1750," in Lois Green Carr et al., eds., Colonial
Chesapeake Society, 275-305
Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black, 44-98
Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor, 1-46
Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves, 381-420
Philip D. Morgan, "Slave Life in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1800," in Lois
Green Carr et al., eds., Colonial Chesapeake Society, 433-84
Carole Shammas, "Black Women's Work and the Evolution of Plantation
Society in Virginia," Labor History, 26 (1985), 5-28
Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together, 30-67
Lorena S. Walsh, "Slave Life, Slave Society, and Tobacco Production in
the Tidewater Chesapeake, 1620-1820," in Ira Berlin and Philip D.
Morgan, eds., Cultivation and Culture, 170-99
Oct. 11 - Africa on the Ashley
Core reading: Peter Wood, Black Majority
Secondary reading:
Overview
Jon Sensbach, "Charting a Course in Early African-American History,"
William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 50 (1993), 394-405; William
Pierce, "African-American Culture," in Jacob Ernest Cooke, et al.,
eds., Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, II, 195-207
Society and Economy
Carl Bridenbaugh, Myths and Realities, 54-118
Joyce E. Chaplin, An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and
Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815, 131-84
Peter Coclanis, The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the
South Carolina Low Country, 27-47
Alan Gallay, The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Byran and the
Southern Colonial Frontier, 1-29
Richard Waterhouse, A New World Gentry: The Making of a Merchant and
Planter Class in South Carolina, 1670-1770, 52-84
Political Organization
Rachel N. Klein, Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter
Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808, 9-46
Clarence Ver Steeg, Origins of A Southern Mosaic, 31-68
Robert Weir, Colonial South Carolina, 105-40
Blacks and Slavery
Ira Berlin, "Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on
British Mainland North America," American Historical Review, 85
(1980), 44-78
Joyce E. Chaplin, "Tidal Rice Cultivation and the Problem of Slavery in
South Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1815," William and Mary Quarterly,
3d ser., 49 (1992), 29-61
A. Leon Higginbotham, In the Matter of Color, 151-215
Daniel C. Littlefield, Rice and Slaves, 115-73
Philip D. Morgan, "British Encounters with Africans and African-
Americans, circa 1600-1780," in Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan,
eds., Strangers Within the Realm, 157-219
Philip D. Morgan, "Task and Gang Systems: The Organization of Labor in
New World Plantations," in Stephen Innes, ed., Work and Labor in
Early America, 189-220
Edward A. Pearson, "From Stono to Vesey," PhD dissertation, UW-Madison
(1992), chap. 2
John Thornton, "African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion," American
Historical Review, 96 (1991), 1101-13
John Thornton, "Central African Names and African-American Naming
Patterns," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 50 (1993), 727-42
Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Origins of a Southern Mosaic, 103-32
IV. SOCIETIES AND ECONOMIES
Oct. 18 - Networks' News
Core reading: Darrett Rutman and Anita Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex
County, Virginia, 1650-1750
Secondary reading:
Overviews
"Introduction," in Lois Green Carr, et al., eds., Colonial Chesapeake
Society, 1-46
Darrett B. Rutman, "Assessing the Little Communities of Early America,"
William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 43 (1986), 163-78
Social organization
Richard Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry, 42-96
Lois Green Carr, et al., Robert Cole's World, 119-50
Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves, 205-60
Lorena Walsh, "Community Networks in the Early Chesapeake," in Lois Green
Carr, et al., eds., Colonial Chesapeake Society, 200-41
Political organization
Warren M. Billings, "Law and Culture in the Colonial Chesapeake,"
Southern Studies, 17 (1978), 333-48
James R. Perry, The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore
1615-1655, 193-238
William Seiler, "The Anglican Church: A Basic Institution of Local Govern-
ment in Colonial Virginia," in Bruce Daniels, ed., Town & County,
134-59
Robert Wheeler, "The County Court in Colonial Virginia," ibid., 111-34
Economic Organization
Paul Clemens, The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore,
120-67
Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, "Economic Diversification and Labor
Organization in the Chesapeake, 1650-1820," in Stephen Innes, ed.,
Work and Labor in Early America, 144-88
Jean B. Russo, "Self-Sufficiency and Local Exchange: Free Craftsmen in
the Rural Chesapeake Economy," in Carr et al., op. cit., 389-432
Charles G. Steffen, "The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the
Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660-1769," JAH, 76 (1989), 9-33
Ian K. Steele, "Empire of Migrants and Consumers: Some Current Atlantic
Approaches to the History of Colonial Virginia," Virginia Magazine
of History and Biography, 99 (1991), 489-512
Women
Lois Carr & Lorena Walsh, "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Wo-
men in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," WMQ, 3d ser., 34 (1977), 542-72
Joan Gunderson, "The Double Bonds of Race and Sex: Black and White Women
in a Colonial Virginia Parish," J. Southern Hist., 52 (1986), 351-72
Mary Beth Norton, "Gender, Crime, and Community in Seventeenth-Century
Maryland," in James A. Henretta, et al., eds., The Transformation of
Early American History, 123-50
Oct. 25 - Declension Denied
Core reading: Christine Leigh Heyrman, Culture and Commerce
Secondary reading:
Economy and Society
Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century,
168-97
Stephen Innes, Labor in a New Land, 123-50
Gloria L. Main, "Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England,"
William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 51 (1994), 39-66
Gregory Nobles, "The Rise of Merchants in Rural Market Towns: A Case
Study of Eighteenth-Century Northampton, Massachusetts," Journal of
Social History, 24 (1990). 5-23
Bettye Hobbs Pruitt, "Self-Sufficiency and the Agricultural Economy of
Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d
ser., 41 (1984), 333-64
Daniel Vickers, "Work and Life in the Fishing Periphery of Essex County,
Massachusetts, 1630-1675," in David Hall and David Grayson Allen,
eds., Seventeenth-Century New England, 83-117
Orthodoxy, Revivalism, and Dissent
J.M. Bumsted, "Religion, Finance, and Democracy in Massachusetts: The
Town of Norton as a Case Study," Journal of American History, 57
(1970-71), 817-31; Rosalind Remer, "Old Lights and New Money: A Note
on Religion, Economics, and the Social Order in 1740 Boston,"
William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 47 (1990), 566-73
Richard Byers, The Nation of Nantucket, 102-21
Jonathan Chu, Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to
Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts, 125-53
Michael Crawford, Seasons of Grace, 141-67
C.C. Goen, Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 36-67
William McGloughlin, New England Dissent, I, 128-48
Perry Miller, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, 305-23
Carla Pestana, Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts, 120-44
Arthur Worrall, Quakers in the Colonial Northeast, 43-60
Women
Cornelia Hughes Dayton, "Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations
in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village," William and Mary
Quarterly, 3d ser., 48 (1991), 19-49
Barbara E. Lacy, "The World of Hannah Heaton: The Autobiography of an
Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Farm woman," William and Mary
Quarterly, 3d ser., 45 (1988), 280-304
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives, 13-34
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale, 72-101
No. 1 - Trading Places
Core reading: John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British
America, 1607-1789
Secondary reading:
The Macroeconomy
Marc Egnal, "The Economic Development of the Thirteen Continental
Colonies, 1720 to 1775," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 32
(1975), 191-222, and "Communications," ibid., 37 (1980), 165-75
J. McAllister, "Colonial America, 1607-1776," Economic History Review, 42
(1989), 245-59
Jacob M. Price, "The Atlantic Economy," in Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole,
eds., Colonial British America, 18-42
Richard Sheridan, "The Domestic Economy," in ibid., 43-85
Capitalism and Economic Culture
Joyce E. Chaplin, An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation & Modernity
in the Lower South, 1730-1815, 92-130
Thomas Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise, 135-64
James Henretta, "Families and Farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial
America," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 35 (1978), 3-32, and
"Communications," ibid., 37 (1980), 688-700
Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism, 13-33
Winifred B. Rothenberg, From Market-Place to a Market Economy, 24-55
Daniel Vickers, "Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early
America," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 47 (1990), 3-29
Labor
Paul G. E. Clemens and Lucy Simler, "Rural Labor and the Farm Household
in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820," in Stephen Innes, ed.,
Work and Labor in Early America, 106-43
Richard Dunn, "Servants and Slaves: The Recruitment and Employment of
Labor," in Greene and Pole, eds., Colonial British America, 157-94
A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America, 133-66
Stephen Innes, "Fulfilling John Smith's Vision: Work and Labor in Early
America," in Innes, ed., Work and Labor in Early America, 3-47
Consumption, Wealth and Standards of Living
T. H. Breen, "'Baubles of Britain': The American Consumer Revolutions of
the Eighteenth Century," Past & Present, 119 (1988), 73-104
Timothy Breen, "Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and
Community on the Eve of the American Revolution," William and Mary
Quarterly, 3d ser., 50 (1993), 471-501
Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, "The Standard of Living in the
Colonial Chesapeake," WMQ, 3d ser., 45 (1988), 135-59
Peter Coclanis, "The Wealth of British America on the Eve of the
Revolution," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 21 (1990), 245-60
Carol Shammas, The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America, 52-75 V.
THE IMPERIAL MATRIX
Nov. 8 - The First Whiggery
Core reading: David Lovejoy, The Glorious Revolution in America
Secondary reading:
Bacon's Rebellion
J. M. Sosin, English America and the Restoration Monarchy of Charles II,
182-207
Wilcomb E. Washburn, The Governor and the Rebel, 139-66
Stephen S. Webb, 1676: The End of American Independence, 199-220
The Glorious Revolution in America
Timothy Breen, "War, Taxes, and Political Brokers: The Ordeal of
Massachusetts Bay, 1675-1692, in idem, Puritans and Adventurers, 81-
105
Thomas Burke, "Leisler's Rebellion at Schenectady, New York, 1689-1710,"
New York History, 70 (1989), 405-30
Lois Green Carr, "Sources of Political Stability and Upheaval in
Seventeenth-Century Maryland," Maryland Historical Magazine, 79
(1984), 44-70
Lois Green Carr and David W. Jordan, Maryland's Revolution of Government,
1689-1692, 46-83
Michael Graham, "Popish Plots: Protestant Fears in Early Colonial
Maryland, 1676-1689," Catholic Historical Review, 79 (1993), 197-216
Philip S. Haffenden, New England in the English Nation 1689-1713, 1-37
Richard Johnson, Adjustment to Empire, 71-135
Donna Merwick, Possessing Albany, 1630-1710, 220-58
Robert Ritchie, The Duke's Province, 198-231
J. M. Sosin, English America and the Revolution of 1688, 29-63, 260-62
I. K. Steele, The English Atlantic 1675/1740, 94-110
Empire and Politics
Richard R. Johnson, "The Imperial Webb: The Thesis of Garrison Government
in Early America Considered," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser.,
43 (1986), 408-430
Michael Kammen, Empire and Interest, 45-71
Douglas Edward Leach, Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and
Colonial Americans, 1677-1763, 8-24
Alison Gilbert Olson, Anglo-American Politics, 1660-1775, 39-74
Alison Gilbert Olson, Making the Empire Work, 51-75
Stephen Saunders Webb, "Army and Empire: English Garrison Government in
Britain and America, 1569 to 1763," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d
ser., 34 (1977), 1-31
Nov. 15 - Oliver's Twist
Core reading: J.C.D. Clark, The Language of Liberty 1660-1832
Secondary reading:
Overviews
Jack P. Greene, "The Growth of Political Stability: An Interpretation of
Political Development in the Anglo-American Colonies, 1660-1760," in
John Parker and Carol Urness, eds., The American Revolution: A
Heritage of Change, 26-52
John Murrin, "Political Development," in Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole,
eds., Colonial British America, 408-56
W. A. Speck, "The International and Imperial Context," in ibid., Colonial
British America, 384-407
Cross-cultural Perspective
Jack P. Greene, "Colonial Political Thought," in Jacob Ernest Cooke, et
al., eds., Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, I, 245-64
Robert E. Shalhope and Timothy E. Allen, articles on "Ideologies of
Revolution," in ibid., III, 729-45
The Imperial Constitution
Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center, 43-76
Michael Kammen, Deputyes and Libertyes, 13-68
J. R. Pole, The Gift of Government, 65-86
Political Ideology and Discourse
Joyce Appleby, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical
Imagination, 161-87
Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics, 3-58
Richard L. Bushman, King and People in Provincial Massachusetts, 11-54
Robert M. Calhoon, Dominion and Liberty: Ideology in the Anglo-American
World, 1660-1801, 1-33
Jack P. Greene, "Political Mimesis: A Consideration of the Historical and
Cultural Roots of Legislative Behavior in the British Colonies in
the Eighteenth Century"; Bernard Bailyn, "Comment"; Greene, "Reply,"
American Historical Review, 75 (1969-70), 337-67
Lawrence H. Leder, Liberty and Authority, 61-79
J. R. Pole, The Gift of Government, 1-41
Religious Pluralism and Politics
Carl Bridenbaugh, Mitre and Sceptre, 138-68
Patricia Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society and Politics
in Colonial America, 187-216
Jon Butler, "Protestant Pluralism," in Jacob Ernest Cooke, et al., eds.,
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, III, 609-31
Richard Pointer, Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience, 53-71
John Woolverton, Colonial Anglicanism in North America, 107-35 VI. POLITICS
Nov. 22 - The People, Yes
Core Reading: Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People
Secondary Readings:
Overview
Jack P. Greene, "Colonial Political Culture," in Jacob Ernest Cooke, et
al., eds., Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, I, 265-85
Theories of Sovereignty in England and America
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, 86-120
Michael Kammen, Sovereignty and Liberty, 3-32
J.R. Pole, The Seventeenth Century: The Sources of Legislative Power, 1-
32
Johann Sommerville, Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640, 57-85
The People as Soldiers
Fred Anderson, A People's Army, 167-95
Timothy Breen, "The Covenanted Militia of Massachusetts Bay: English
Background and New World Development," in idem, Puritans and
Adventurers, 24-45
Lawrence Delbert Cress, Citizens in Arms, 15-33
Albert Tillson, "The Militia and Popular Culture in the Upper Valley of
Virginia, 1740-1775," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 94
(1986)
Candidates and Constituents
Robert Dinkin, Voting in Provincial America, 50-71
Joyce B. and Robert R. Gilsdorf, "Elites and Electorates: Some Plain
Truths for Historians of Colonial America," in David Hall et al.,
eds., Saints and Revolutionaries, 207-44
John G. Kolp, "The Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Pre-Revolutionary
Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 49 (1992), 653-74
Bruce P. Stark, "'A Factious Spirit': Constitutional Theory and Political
Practice in Connecticut, c. 1740," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d
ser., 47 (1990), 391-410
Charles Sydnor, Gentleman Freeholders, 39-59
Petitions and Representation
Raymond Bailey, Popular Influence Upon Public Policy: Petitioning in
Eighteenth-Century Virginia, 23-67
Ruth Bogin, "Petitioning and the New Moral Economy of Post-Revolutionary
America," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 45 (1988), 391-425
Alison G. Olson, "Eighteenth-Century Colonial Legislatures and Their
Constituents," Journal of American History, 79 (1992), 543-67
J. R. Pole, Political Representation in England and the Origins of the
American Republic, 33-75
Allan Tully, "Constituent-Representative Relationships in Early America,"
Canadian Journal of History, 11 (1976), 139-54
Nov. 29 - Ports of Importance
Core reading: Gary Nash, The Urban Crucible
Secondary readings:
Men, Women, and Work
Christine Daniels, "'WANTED: A Blacksmith who understands Plantation
Work': Artisans in Maryland, 1700-1810," William and Mary Quarterly,
3d ser., 50 (1993), 743-67
Graham Russell Hodges, New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850, 20-65
Jean P. Jordan, "Women Merchants in Colonial New York," New York History,
58 (1977), 412-39
Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black
Community, 1720-1840, 8-37
W.J. Rorabaugh, The Craft Apprentice from Franklin to the Machine Age in
America,
Sharon Salinger, "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured
Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800, 82-114
Billy G. Smith, The "Lower Sort': Philadelphia's Laboring People, 92-125
Lisa Wilson, Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania 1750-1850, 101-33
Political Participation and Mobilization
Richard R. Beeman, "Deference, Republicanism, and the Emergence of
Popular Politics in Eighteenth-Century America," William and Mary
Quarterly, 3d ser., 49 (1992), 401-30
John Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture
in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861, 97-128
Paul Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy, 3-35
Pauline Maier, "Popular Uprisings and Civil Authority in Eighteenth-
Century America," reprinted in Stanley N. Katz, ed., Colonial
America, 1st ed., 308-38
Gary B. Nash, "The Transformation of Urban Politics 1700-1765," Journal
of American History, 60 (1973-74), 605-32
Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen,
Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750, 205-53
Thomas Sloughter, "Crowds in Eighteenth-Century America: Reflections and
New Directions," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 115
(1991), 3-34
Alfred F. Young, "English Plebeian Culture and Eighteenth-Century
American Radicalism," in Margaret Jacob and James Jacob, eds., The
Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism, 185-212
War and Society
Fred Anderson, A People's Army, 26-62
Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in Revolt, 98-113
William Pencak, "Warfare and Political Change in Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Massachusetts," in Peter Marshall & Gwyn Williams, eds., The British
Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution, 51-73 VII. RELIGION
VII. RELIGION AND ETHNICITY
Dec. 6 - The Spirit of Scotland
Core reading: Marilyn Westerkamp, Triumph of the Laity
Secondary reading:
Ethnicity, Identity, and Politics
Jon Butler, The Huguenots in America, 199-215
Maldwyn A. Jones, "The Scotch-Irish in British America," in Bernard
Bailyn and Philip Morgan, eds., Strangers Within the Realm, 284-313
Ned Landsman, Scotland's First American Colony, 227-63
James Leyburn, The Scotch-Irish, 273-95
Forrest McDonald and Ellen Shapiro McDonald, "The Ethnic Origins of the
American People, 1790," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser. 37
(1980), 179-99, and "Communications," ibid., 701-3
John Murrin, "English Rights as Ethnic Aggression: The English Conquest,
the Charter of Liberties of 1683, and Leisler's Rebellion in New
York," in William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright, eds., Authority
and Resistance in Early New York, 95-113
William T. Parsons, "Representation of Ethnicity Among Colonial
Pennsylvania Germans," in Frank Shuffleton, ed., A Mixed Race:
Ethnicity in Early America, 119-42
A.G. Roeber, Palatines, Liberty and Property,
David S. Shields, "Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish Elite in British
America," in Frank Shuffleton, ed., A MIXED RACE, 143-62
Alan W. Tully, "Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in Early America,"
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 107 (1983), 491-536
Stephanie Grauman Wolf, Urban Village: Population, Community and Family
Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683-1800, 127-53
The Great Awakening
Jon Butler, "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as
Interpretive Fiction," Journal of American History, 69 (1982), 305-
25
Milton S. Coalter, Jr., Gilbert Tennent, Son of Thunder, 55-89
John B. Frantz, "The Awakening of Religion among the German Settlers in
the Middle Colonies," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 33
(1976), 266-88
Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitfield and the
Transatlantic Revivals 1737-1770, 52-94
Martin E. Lodge, "The Crisis of the Churches in the Middle Colonies,
1720-1750," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 95
(1971), 195-220
Susan O'Brien, "A Transatlantic Community of Saints: The Great Awakening
and the First Evangelical Network, 1735-1755," American Historical
Review, 91 (1986), 811-32
Leigh Eric Schmidt, Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals
in the Early Modern Period, 11-68
Leonard J. Trinterud, the Forming of an American transition: A Re-
examination of Colonial Presbyterianism, 86-108
VIII. CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
December 13 - Feral Periphery
Core Reading: Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America
Secondary Readings:
Cross-cultural Perspective
James Horn, et al., articles on "Repeopling the Land," in Jacob Ernest
Cooke, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies,
II, 301-27
Migrations
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New England's Generation, 12-46
Carl Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 394-433
David Cressy, Coming Over, 74-106
Russell R. Menard, "British Migration to the Chesapeake Colonies in the
Seventeenth Century, in Lois Green Carr, et al., eds., Colonial
Chesapeake Society, 99-132
Oliver Rink, Holland on the Hudson, 139-71
Marianne Woceck, "The Flow and Composition of German Immigration to
Philadelphia, 1727-1775," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography, 105 (1981), 249-78
The Anglicization Paradigm
Timothy H. Breen, "An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial
America, 1690-1776," Journal of British Studies, 25 (1986), 467-99
Richard Bushman, "American High-Style and Vernacular Cultures," in Jack
P. Greene and J.R. Pole, eds., Colonial British America, 345-83
John M. Murrin, "The Legal Transformation: The Bench and Bar of
Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts," in Stanley N. Katz, ed., Colonial
America, 1st ed., 415-49, or Katz and Murrin, ibid., 3d ed., 540-72
Harry Stout, The New England Soul, 127-47
Origins of American Cultures and Identities
James Axtell, "The Indian Impact on English Colonial Culture," in idem,
The European and the Indian, 272-315
Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, "Introduction," in idem, Strangers
Within the Realm, 1-31
David Steven Cohen, The Dutch-American Farm, 11-32
David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed, 783-830
Jack P. Greene, "A Fortuitous Convergence: Culture, Circumstance, and
Contingency in the Emergence of the American Nation," in idem,
Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities, 290-309
Jack P. Greene, The Intellectual Construction of America, 63-94
D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America, vol. 1: Atlantic America, 1492-
1800, 231-54
Perry Miller, "The Shaping of the American Character," in idem, Nature's
Nation, 1-13
Michael Zuckerman, "Identity in British America: Unease in Eden," in
Nicholas Canny & Anthony Pagden, eds., Colonial Identity in the
Atlantic World, 1500-1800, 115-57
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