Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas

Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century . By Robert M. Bliss. Possessing Albany, 1630–1710: The Dutch and English Experiences . By Donna Merwick. The Puritan Ordeal . By Andrew Delbanco. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture . By Jack P. Greene. The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier . By Alan Gallay. The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier . By Edward J. Cashin. The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution . By John Phillip Reid. The Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution . By John Phillip Reid. The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763–1790 . Edited by Ronald Hoffman, John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard and Peter J. Albert. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution . Edited by Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. Maine in the Early Republic: From Revolution to Statehood . Edited by Charles E. Clark, James S. Leamon and Karen Bowden. Women in the Age of the American Revolution . Edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713–1861 . By John L. Brooke. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 . By Christopher Clark. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography . By John Niven. Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South . By James Oakes. Slave Law in the Americas . By Alan Watson. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery . By Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery . By Robert William Fogel. Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War . By Roger L. Ransom. Black Property Owners in the South, 1790–1915 . By Loren Schweninger. The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird . Edited by John Rozier. Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840–1868 . By Grace Palladino. Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry . By Priscilla Long. Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845–1880 . By Stanley Nadel. America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change, 1893–1923 . By Peter J. Ling. Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885–1941 . By Philip Scranton. Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878–1923 . By Stephen H. Norwood. Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880–1915 . By I. A. Newby. Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900–1920 . By John Milton Cooper. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 . By Alfred W. Crosby. Diplomat in Khaki: Major‐General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1949 . By A. J. Bacevich. America's Rome: Volume I, Classical Rome; Volume II, Catholic and Contemporary Rome . By William L. Vance. George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876–1986 . By K. A. Marling. Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894–1928 . By Clyde W. Barrow. Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History: A Diary 1928–1930 . By Lorenzo J. Greene. Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute . By Edmund L. Drago. American Immigrants and their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years . Edited by Peter Kivisto and Dag Blanck. The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933–1940 . By Anthony J. Badger. World War Hand the West: Reshaping the Economy . By Gerald D. Nash. For God and Country: The American Legion, 1919–1941 . By William Pencak. Empire and Cold War: The Roots of US‐Third World Antagonism, 1945–1947 . By Scott L. Bills. This Nest of Vipers: McCarthyism and Higher Education in the Mundel Affair, 1951–1952 . By Charles H. McCormick. Guns and Butter, Powder and Rice: US Army Logistics in the Korean War . By James A. Huston. Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement . By Robert Weisbrot. Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King . By Richard Lentz. Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present . By David R. Goldfield. The United States Constitution: The First 200 Years . Edited by R. C. Simmons. The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad since 1750 . By Walter LaFeber. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health . By John Duffy. Regions and Regionalism in the United States . By M. Bradshaw. Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Women in Seventeenth‐Century New France . By Karen Anderson. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada . By John Eagle. Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Volume XII, 1891 to 1900 . Edited by Frances J. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. The RCN in Transition, 1910–1985 . Edited by W. A. B. Douglas. Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America . By James Dunkerley. The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598–1701 . By Peter T. Bradley. Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil . By Richard Graham. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 . By Robin Blackburn. Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados . By Hilary McD. Beckles. Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650–1838 . By Barbara Bush. French Reaction to British Slave Emancipation . By Lawrence C. Jennings. Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Social and Economic History of Monoculture in Matanzas . By Laird W. Bergad. Cuba Between Reform and Revolution . By Louis A. Perez.