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Books on Early American History and Culture, 1981-1985: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Meant for scholars, librarians, and students of early America, the book surveys over 900 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogues, and reference works published between 1981 and 1985. Entries include brief annotations, which describe the scope and approach to each item and, where applicable, the book's main thesis.
In addition to the standard bibliographic components, this book also includes a list of journals where the work has been reviewed and the number of times the book has been cited in the professional journal literature. In thirty-one thematic chapters the book covers such topics as government, religion, society, gender, race, and ethnicity. The work includes detailed subject and author indexes and evaluative material.
List of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
General
Historiography and Public History
Geography and Exploration
Colonization
Maritime History
Native Americans
Race and Slavery
Gender
Ethnicity
Migration
Labor and Class
Economics and Business
Society
Families and Children
Rural Life and Agriculture
Religion
American Revolution
War of 1812
Constitution
Politics and Government
Law
Crime and Punishment
Diplomacy
Military
Ideas
Literature
Communication
Education
Science and Medicine
Visual Arts and Material Culture
Performing Arts
Appendix A: Most Frequently Cited Books in the Journal Literature, 1980-2004
Appendix B: Most Frequently Cited Books in the Journal Literature, 1980-2004 by Chapter
Author Index
Subject Index
About the author
RAYMOND D. IRWIN teaches American history, language, and culture at Just Institute, where he is Director of Academic Information Services. 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, 1986-1990 (Greenwood) was published in 2001.
