JOHN SAILLANT, HISTORY 170A
BROWN UNIVERSITY, SEMESTER I, 1993-1994
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, 9:00-10:20
September 7 & 9: The Native Peoples of Europe, America, and Africa
September 14 & 16: Exploration and Encounters Readings: William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York, 1983). Alfred W. Crosby, "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation of America," in Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development, Fourth Edition, Ed. Stanley N. Katz, John M. Murrin, and Douglas Greenberg (New York, 1993), 3-14.
September 21 & 23: Religious Life in Early America Readings: Virginia Dejohn Anderson, "Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630-1640," in Colonial America, 96-130. Barry J. Levy, "`Tender Plants': Quaker Farmers and Children in the Delaware Valley, 1681--1735," in Colonial America, 152-179. Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, in Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676--1724, Ed. Alden T. Vaughn and Edward W. Clark (Cambridge, 1981), 31-75 (on reserve). John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity" and Journal Extracts, in The Puritans, ed. Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson (Boston, 1938), 125-143; 195-199 (on reserve).
September 28 & 30: Social and Political Organization in Early America Readings: Bernard Bailyn, "Politics and Social Structure in Virginia," in Colonial America, 17-41. Lois G. Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," in Colonial America, 66-95. Philip J. Greven, Jr., "Family Structure in Seventeenth- Century Andover, Massachusetts," in Colonial America, 131-151. Russell R. Menard, "From Servant to Freeholder: Status, Mobility and Property Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," in Colonial America, 41-65.
October 5 & 7: Race and Slavery Readings: Winthrop D. Jordan, "Enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700," in Colonial America, 288-329. Allan Kulikoff, "The Origins of Afro-American Society in Tidewater Maryland and Virginia, 1700 to 1790," in Colonial America, 452-485. Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York, 1974).
October 12 & 14: Regions 1: The Caribbean, the South, and the Spanish Border Readings: Jack P. Greene, Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History (Charlottesville, 1992), chs. 2-5. David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven, 1992), chs. 5-8 (on reserve).
October 19 & 21: Regions 2: The Middle Colonies Readings: Sally Schwartz, "A Mixed Multitude": The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania (New York, 1987).
October 26 & 28: Regions 3: The Northern Colonies Readings: Cornelia Hughes Dayton, "Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village," in Colonial America, 398-431. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (New York, 1982). Michael Zuckerman, "The Social Context of Democracy in Massachusetts," in Colonial America, 432-452.
November 2 & 4: The Great Awakening and Religious Diversity Readings: Martin E. Lodge, "The Crisis of the Churches in the Middle Colonies, 1720-1750," in Colonial America, 581-604. Leigh Eric Schmidt, "`The Grand Prophet,' Hugh Bryan: Early Evangelicalism's Challenge to the Establishment and Slavery in the Colonial South," in Colonial America, 604-616. Charles Chauncy, "Enthusiasm Described and Caution'd Against," in The Great Awakening, Ed. Alan Heimert and Perry Miller (Indianapolis, 1967), 228-256 (on reserve). Jonathan Edwards, "The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit," in The Great Awakening, 204-213 (on reserve). Gilbert Tennent, "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry," in The Great Awakening, 71-95 (on reserve).
November 9 & 11: Eighteenth-Century Social and Political Organization Readings: Jack P. Greene, Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities, chs. 6 & 7. Gary B. Nash, "The Transformation of Urban Politics," in Colonial America, 523-552.
November 16 & 18: The Enlightenment Readings: Jack P. Greene, Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities, ch. 16. Nathan O. Hatch, "The Origins of Civil Millennialism in America: New England Clergy, War with France, and the Revolution," in Colonial America, 617-639. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (written in 1793; available in several modern printings; on reserve).
November 23 & 30: The Formation of a Revolutionary Society Readings: Thomas J. Davis, "Emancipation Rhetoric, Natural Rights, and Revolutionary New England: A Note on Four Black Petitions in Massachusetts, 1773-1777," New England Quarterly, 62 (1989): 248-261 (on reserve). Jack P. Greene, Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities, chs. 7-11. Rhys Isaac, "Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765 to 1775," in Colonial America, 639-662. Edmund S. Morgan, "Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox," in Colonial America, 263-288. Thomas Paine, Common Sense (published in 1776; available in several modern printings; on reserve).
December 2 & 7: The Formation of a Revolutionary Future Readings: Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts (New York, 1943), ch. 9 (on reserve). David Brion Davis, Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations (Cambridge, 1990).
[This is the reading list. Undergraduates were graded on two in-class examinations (about one half the class time) and a final examination. Graduate students met with me in a group working on bibliographies and field preparation.]
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