Recommended Readings, Taking Possession

Anderson, Fred. The Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Axtell, James. The Indian’s New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Brewer, Holly. “Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia: ‘Ancient Feudal Restraints’ and Revolutionary Reforms.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., LIV (1997), 307-346.

Egnal, Marc. “The Origins of the Revolution in Virginia: A Reinterpretation.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., XXXVII (1980), pp. 401-428.

Egloff, Keith, and Deborah Woodward. First People:The Early Indians of Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.

Hammon, Neal O., and Richard Taylor. Virginia’s Western War, 1775-1786. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002.

Hatfield, April Lee. Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Hatley, Tom. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Hinderaker, Eric. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hofstra, Warren. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Horn, James. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Hughes, Sarah S. Surveyors and Statesmen: Land Measuring in Colonial Virginia. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Association of Surveyors, 1979.

Kelly, Kevin. “Taking Possession.” In Cary Carson, ed. Becoming Americans: Our Struggle To Be Both Free and Equal. Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2004.

Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

McConnell, Michael N. A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724–1774. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Merrell, James H. The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Merritt, Jane T. At the Crossroad: Indians and Empire on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Morton, Richard L. Colonial Virginia. Vol. II: Westward Expansion and Prelude to Revolution, 1710–1763. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.

Nobles, Gregory H. “Breaking into the Backcountry: New Approaches to the Early American Frontier, 1750–1800.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., XLVI (1989), pp. 641-670.

Onuf, Peter S. Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Neighborhood. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Robinson, W. Stitt. The Southern Colonial Frontier, 1607–1763. Albuquerque, N. Mex.: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas’ People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Rountree, Helen. “Sex Roles and Family Life.” Chap. 5 in Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Rountree, Helen C. and E. Randolph Turner III. Before and After Jamestown: Virginia’s Powhatans and Their Predecessors. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Sosin, Jack M. The Revolutionary Frontier, 1763-1783. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.