Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas

Explorers and Colonies: America, 1500–1625 . By David B. Quinn. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570–1700 . By Stephen Foster. Out of the Wilderness: The Emergence of an American Identity in Colonial New England . By John Canup. The End of Anglo‐America: Historical Essays in the Study of Cultural Divergence . Edited by R. A. Burchell. Scotland and America in the Age of Enlightenment . Edited by Richard B. Sher and Jeffrey Smitten. A Perfect Freedom: Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania . By J. William Frost. The ‘Lower Sort’: Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750–1800 . By Billy G. Smith. ‘The Swift Progress of Population’: A Documentary and Bibliographic Study of Philadelphia's Growth, 1642–1859 . By Susan E. Klepp. The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism and the American Revolution . By Steven M. Dworetz. A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion and the American Founding . By Ellis Sandoz. The American Revolution in the Law: Anglo‐American Jurisprudence before John Marshall . By Shannon C. Stimson. The Birth of American Political Thought, 1763–1787 . By Dick Howard. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the American Revolution . Edited by Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole. War for America: The Fight for Independence, 1775–1783 . By Jeremy Black. Charles Thomson: A Patriot's Pursuit . By Boyd Stanley Schlenther. Waterfrom the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age . By Sylvia R. Frey. Sources for US History: Nineteenth‐century Communities . By W. B. Stephens. The American Flag, 1777–1924: Cultural Shifts from Creation to Codification . By Scot M. Guenter. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class . By David R. Roediger. Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina . By Norrece T. Jones. Frederick Douglass . By William S. McFeely. Lincoln, the South and Slavery: The Political Dimension . By Robert W. Johannsen. A braham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution . By James McPherson. The Civil War in the American West . By Alvin M. Josephy. We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War . By James W. Geary. Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia during the Civil War . By J. Matthew Gallman. Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays . Edited by Maris Vinovkis. Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War . By William M. Fowler. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation: Series I, Volume III: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South . Edited by Ira Berlin, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, Julie Saville. Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868 . By Brooks D. Simpson. At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861–1915 . By William Cohen. Desegregrating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871–1960 . By Stephen J. Ochs. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West . By William Cronon. Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers . Edited by Sanford M. Jacoby. Making America Corporate, 1870–1920 . By Oliver Zunz. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 . By David E. Nye. Alone Together: A History of New York's Early Apartments . By Elizabeth Collins Cromley. The Origins of American Social Science . By Dorothy Ross. Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine and the Latin American Context . By Richard H. Collin. The Ukrainian Americans: Roots and Aspirations, 1884–1954 . By Myron B. Kuropas. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 . By Lizabeth Cohen. The Exemplary Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition . By Philip Abbott. The Communist Party of the United States: From the Depression to World War II . By Fraser M. Ottanelli. American Anticommunism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830–1970 . By Michael J. Heale. The Culture of the Cold War . By Stephen J. Whitfield. The Protectors: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930–1962 . By John C. McWilliams. The Causes of Canadian Confederation . Edited by Ged Martin. A History of Barbados from Amerindian Settlement to Nation State . By Hilary Beckles. The Mexican Empire of Iturbide . By Timothy E. Anna. The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492–1867 . By D. A. Brading. Indigenous Migration and Social Change: The Forasteros of Cuzco, 1570–1720 . By Ann M. Wightman. The Cambridge History of Latin America , Volume VII: 1930 to the Present . Edited by Leslie Bethell. Coffee, Contention and Change in the Making of Modern Brazil . By Mauricio A. Font.