Colonial America/Bibliography

Reference

 * Cooke, Jacob Ernest, ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (3 vol 1993), comprehensive coverage with Spanish, French and Dutch receiving equal attention with British

Scholarly secondary sources

 * Adams, James Truslow. The Founding of New England, (1921)online edition
 * Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2005) excerpt and text search
 * Andrews, Charles M. "Colonial Commerce," American Historical Review, 20#1 (October 1914) pp. 43-63 online
 * Andrews, Charles M. Our Earliest Colonial Settlements: Their Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics (1933) briefly discusses Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland) online edition
 * Andrews, Charles M. ''Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689.. (1904) online edition
 * Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Period of American History, (1934-38) (the standard overview in four volumes) online at ACLS e-books
 * Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution (1986), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
 * Bancroft, George. History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent.  10 vol (1860) online editions
 * Beer, George Louis. "British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765," Political Science Quarterly, vol 22 (March 1907)  pp 1-48; online edition
 * Beeman, Richard R. "The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America'' (2006) excerpt and text search
 * Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America (1997) 276pp excerpt and text search
 * Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America (1988) (online at ACLS History e-book project)
 * Bonomi, Patricia U. A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York, (1971) online edition
 * Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996) 512pp excerpt and text search
 * Bruce, Philip A. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records. (1896), very old fashioned history online edition
 * Carr, Lois Green and Philip D. Morgan. Colonial Chesapeake Society (1991), 524pp excerpt and text search
 * Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732, (1920), online edition
 * Crane, Verner W. "The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne’s War," American Historical Review vol 24, (April 1919) pp 379-95. online edition
 * Craven, Wesley Frank. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607–1689 (1949). Vol. I in A History of the South.
 * Gipson, Lawrence. The British Empire Before the American Revolution (15 volumes) (1936-1970), Pulitzer Prize; highly detailed discussion of every British colony in the New World
 * Greene, Evarts Boutelle. Provincial America, 1690-1740, (1935) survey by scholar online edition
 * Hatfield, April Lee. Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century (2007) excerpt and text search
 * Illick, Joseph E. Colonial Pennsylvania: A History, (1976) online edition
 * Kammen, Michael. Colonial New York: A History, (2003)
 * Labaree, Benjamin Woods. Colonial Massachusetts: A History, (1979)
 * Kulikoff, Allan. From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2000) online edition
 * Middleton, Richard. Colonial America: A History, 1565-1776 (3rd ed 2002), 576pp excerpt and text search
 * Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975) Pulitzer Prizeonline edition
 * Osgood, Herbert L. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. 3 vol (1904-07) online edition
 * Tate, Thad W. Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century (1980) excerpt and text search
 * Taylor, Alan. American Colonies, (2001) survey by leading scholar excerpt and text search
 * Vickers, Daniel, ed. A Companion to Colonial America. 2003. 576 pp.