Description:
A companion volume to Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995, this work covers scholarship on early American history, including North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This annotated bibliography surveys over 1,000 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogs, and reference works published between 1986 and 1990. In thirty-two thematic sections, the book covers such topics as colonization, rural life and agriculture, and religion. This useful guide organizes the recent explosion of scholarly literature on pre-colonial, colonial, and early Republican America.
Brief description:
RAYMOND D. IRWIN teaches American history, language and culture at Just Institute, where he is Director of the Center for Communications. He has written articles on colonial American religion, government, and historiography, as well as social studies teachers' guides and reference works. His earlier bibliography, Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995 was published in 2000.
Review Quotes: "[H]ighly recommended to researchers and teachers of history, utilizing secondary school, public, and college libraries."-Reference & User Services Quarterly