This page contains links to full transcriptions of most of the book reviews I have published in various journals over the years. When you click on each link, you will see the full review as well as the original place and date of publication of the review and the publication details for the books reviewed. If the book is still in print, you can also find a link to the publisher and ordering details.

 
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Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
T. Cole Jones
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020

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The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Robert G. Parkinson
University of North Carolina Press, 2016

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Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
Ken Miller
Cornell University Press, 2014

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Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange
Edited by Jane Carey and Jane Lydon
Routledge, 2014

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The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450–1850
Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan
Oxford University Press, 2011

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HISTORY, MYTH, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA

Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
Benjamin L. Carp
Yale University Press, 2010

 

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
Jill Lepore
Princeton University Press, 2010

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IMAGINING A DEMOCRACY

Law's Imagined Republic: Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America
Steven Wilf
Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America
Leonard Sadoskey
University of Virginia Press, 2009

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Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830
Edited by Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault
Harvard University Press, 2009

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For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s
Ronald P. Formisano
University of North Carolina Press, 2008

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Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
Jim Piecuch
University of South Carolina Press, 2008

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Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution
Benjamin L. Carp
Oxford University Press, 2007

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The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent
Kathleen DuVal
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

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Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade
Carolyn Podruchny
University of Nebraska Press, 2006

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American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
Patrick Griffin
Hill & Wang, 2007

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Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Ned Blackhawk
Harvard University Press, 2006

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In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860
Edward Watts
University of North Carolina Press, 2006

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Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World
Edited by Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

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Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
Edited by Robert Applebaum and John Wood Sweet
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 

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The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
Donna Merwick
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

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DIFFERENT WAR, SAME OLD BATTLE ... MARCUS REDIKER'S HISTORIES OF PIRATES, SLAVES & REBELS

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750
Marcus Rediker
Cambridge University Press, 1987

 

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Marcus Rediker with Peter Linebaugh
Beacon Press, 2000

 

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Marcus Rediker
Beacon Press, 2004

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Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765
Matthew C. Ward
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003

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Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America
Peter H. Wood
Oxford University Press, 2003

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At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
Jane T. Merritt
University of North Carolina Press, 2003

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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Bernard Bailyn
Knopf, 2003

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War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian nations and the British Empire
Gregory Evans Dowd
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

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Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York
Judith L. Van Buskirk
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

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Virginia's Western War, 1775-1786
Neal O. Hammon and Richard Taylor
Stackpole Books, 2002

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WAR TALE WITH FEW HEROES

A People’s History of the American Revolution
Ray Raphael
Profile Books, 2001

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HOW SMOKING CHANGED THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY

Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-1763
John Oliphant
Palgrave, 2001

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JEFFERSONIAN AMERICA OR JEFFERSON’S AMERICA?

Jeffersonian America
Peter Onuf and Leonard Sadosky
Blackwell Publishers, 2001

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A PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION? TOWARDS A NEW HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA

These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia
Susan Branson
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001

 

A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
Ray Raphael
The New Press, 2001

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SLAVERY AND COMMUNITY IN THE NEW YORK REGION

Root & Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey, 1613-1863
Graham Russell Hodges
University of North Carolina Press, 1999

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Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character
Roger G. Kennedy
Oxford University Press, 2000

 

Founding Friendship : George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic
Stuart Leibiger
University Press of Virginia, 1999
 

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Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History
Francis D. Cogliano
Routledge, 2000

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Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821
Donald J. Ratcliffe
Ohio State University Press, 1998

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