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Byrne, David, “Anne Conway, Early Quaker Thought, and the New Science,” Quaker History, 96 (Spring 2007), 24–35.

Denaci, Ruth Ann, “The Penn’s Creek Massacre and the Captivity of Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 307–32.

Matossian, Mary K., “Why the Quakers Quaked: The Influence of Climatic Change on Quaker Health, 1647–1659,” Quaker History, 96 (Spring 2007), 36–51.

 

Beranek, Christa M., “Merchants, Gentry, Farmers, and Brokers: Archaeology of the Complex Identities of the Tyng Family of Dunstable, Massachusetts, in the Eighteenth Century” (Boston University, 2007). Order No. DA3240606.

Goetz, Rebecca Anne, “From Potential Christians to Hereditary Heathens: Religion and Race in the Early Chesapeake, 1590–1740” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3245140.

Hoffman, Susan A., “The Ties That Bind: Consumerism, Gender, and the Family in Colonial and Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1683–1783” (Lehigh University, 2006). Order No. DA3248143.

van den Hurk, Jeroen, “Imagining New Netherland: Origins and Survival of Netherlandic Architecture in Old New York” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3247705.

Martin, James L., “The Protestant Spirit of Utility’s Connection to Republican Virtue: Engaging the Transatlantic Origins of the American Enlightenment” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2007). Order No. DA3245359.

Morrissey, Robert Michael, “Bottomlands and Borderlands: Empires and Identities in the Illinois Country, 1673–1785” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3243672.

Williams, Mark Carlson, “The Brittle Thread of Life: The New England Backcountry in the Eighteenth Century” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3243727.

 

Dunmore, John, Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis de Bougainville. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2007. 296 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-60223-000-2.)

Little, Benerson, The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. xvi, 343 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59797-101-0.)

Pasles, Paul C., Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii, 254 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-691-12956-3.)

Rapaport, Diane, The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England. (Beverly, Mass.: Commonwealth Editions, 2007. xiv, 145 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-1-933212-57-9.)

 

MacGregor, Doug, and Melissah Pawlikowski, eds., “‘This Wretched World’: The Journal of John Michael Lindenmuth,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 374–93.

Norton, Mary Beth, and Emerson W. Baker, eds., “‘The Names of the Rivers’: A New Look at an Old Document,” New England Quarterly, 80 (Sept. 2007), 459–87.

Tortora, Daniel J., and , eds., “‘A Faithful Ambassador’: The Diary of Rev. William Hutson, Pastor of the Independent Meeting in Charleston, 1757–1761,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (Jan. 2007), 32–100.

Tortora, Daniel J., ed., “‘A Faithful Ambassador’: The Diary of Rev. William Hutson, Pastor of the Independent Meeting in Charleston, 1757–1761,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (Oct. 2006), 272–309.

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