The Historical Journal

Table of Contents - 01 December 1980 - Volume 23, Issue 04  

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Review Articles

‘Now Wait for Last Year’: Historians, the American Colonies, and the Revolution

D. H. Murdocha1

a1 University of Leeds

A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. By Michael Kammen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Pp. xxi + 384. $15.00.

The Philosophy of the American Revolution. By Morton White. New York: Oxford, 1978. Pp. xii + 299. £8.75.

In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: Occultism, and Renaissance Science in Eighteenth-Century America. By Herbert Leventhal. New York: New York University Press, 1976. Pp. 330. $15.00.

The Writs of Assistance Case. By M. H. Smith. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 591. £21.

William Penn's Legacy: Politics and Social Structure in Provincial Pennsylvania, 1726–1755. By Alan Tully. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins, 1978. Pp. xvi + 255. £9.75.

The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture and Social Change. By David E. Stannard. New York: Oxford, 1978. Pp. x + 236. £6.75.

The Economic Rise of Early America. By Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 226. £3.95.

Perspectives in American History, Vol. X. Cambridge, Mass.: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, 1976. Pp. 467. Subscription only ($7.50 p.a.).

1776. Edited by John Browning and Richard Morton. Toronto: Stevens/Hakkert, 1976. Pp. vii + 149. $14.95.

In Defence of the Public Liberty: Britain, America, and the Struggle for Independence — From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781. By Samuel B. Griffith II. Pp. xv + 725. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. £12.50.

Washington: A Biography. By Noemie Emery. London: Cassell, 1977. Pp. 432. £7.95.