VOLUMES 2 and 3 of The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson offer a glimpse into the mind of British America’s best known and perhaps most influential loyalist. They reveal his interpretations of the extent of Parliamentary authority and the scope of colonial liberties; his critical views of his patriot opponents; his professional aspirations for himself and his family; and his interpretation of what we recognize as the pivotal moments in the escalating conflict between the colonies (but mostly Boston) and the British Parliament. Their greatest utility, however, lies in the insight they provide into his view of how the empire both should and must work; here, his views depart from the strict ideological constructs that dominate most modern historical interpretation of the period in favor of a studied pragmatism that highlights a vernacular empire, or one constructed around the necessity of embracing effective governance over principled administration. The volumes are impressively compiled. A textual introduction explains the mechanics of the editing process and includes a list of commonly cited sources; a brief biography of Hutchinson and chronology of the principal events that appear in each volume’s correspondence provide readers with essential context, a calendar of all of Hutchinson’s extant correspondence for the years covered in each volume,
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{"title":"American Intelligence: Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire","authors":"R. Rohrs","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00909","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"94 1","pages":"479-481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42810111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Exploring Roger Williams business on the borderlands of New England is as central to explaining his life as his theological and political debates. As in other corners of Early America, Williams's daily activities involved regular and sustained interactions with his Indigenous neighbors in his home, trading business, and colonial politics.
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The Course of God’s Providence is framed as history but is likely to be most useful to scholars of religion and those interested in the doctrine of Providence. The author situates the central arguments within scholarly conversations about theology and secularism rather than the history of medicine, epidemics, reproductive health, or intersections between medicine and religion broadly conceived. Likewise, the analysis centers on ideas but not the historical contexts framing them. I kept wondering about the events taking place in eighteenthcentury America, Germany, and England as these texts about providence were written. I also would have loved to learn more about the yellow fever epidemic in the chapter on benevolent responses to the outbreak in Philadelphia. Readers unfamiliar with the history of medicine might find it useful to have a fuller discussion of the medical theories that underwrote the narratives of health in the book’s initial chapters. Whether by virtue of disciplinary norms or by design, the focus of this book is not historical events and lives; it is theology. Perhaps as a result of this focus and the author’s background in religious studies, the book at times overstates the originality of its historical claims. One example is when the author refers to accounts of suffering and death in the letters of Molly and Eli Forbes as an “overlooked story” since historians of early modern medicine “often focus on epidemics” (56). Far from overlooked, stories of everyday illness comprise an entire subfield on the history of the patient. One book cannot do everything, of course, and Koch’s deep focus on Providence provides a thought-provoking path for future scholarship on the fascinating intersections between religion, health, and medicine.
{"title":"Political Godmother: Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper that Shook the Republican Party","authors":"M. Birkner","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00912","url":null,"abstract":"The Course of God’s Providence is framed as history but is likely to be most useful to scholars of religion and those interested in the doctrine of Providence. The author situates the central arguments within scholarly conversations about theology and secularism rather than the history of medicine, epidemics, reproductive health, or intersections between medicine and religion broadly conceived. Likewise, the analysis centers on ideas but not the historical contexts framing them. I kept wondering about the events taking place in eighteenthcentury America, Germany, and England as these texts about providence were written. I also would have loved to learn more about the yellow fever epidemic in the chapter on benevolent responses to the outbreak in Philadelphia. Readers unfamiliar with the history of medicine might find it useful to have a fuller discussion of the medical theories that underwrote the narratives of health in the book’s initial chapters. Whether by virtue of disciplinary norms or by design, the focus of this book is not historical events and lives; it is theology. Perhaps as a result of this focus and the author’s background in religious studies, the book at times overstates the originality of its historical claims. One example is when the author refers to accounts of suffering and death in the letters of Molly and Eli Forbes as an “overlooked story” since historians of early modern medicine “often focus on epidemics” (56). Far from overlooked, stories of everyday illness comprise an entire subfield on the history of the patient. One book cannot do everything, of course, and Koch’s deep focus on Providence provides a thought-provoking path for future scholarship on the fascinating intersections between religion, health, and medicine.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"94 1","pages":"486-490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41961235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
populated southern coast, and the other the deeply rural forested interior. The state has two corresponding congressional districts, blue and red, and in 1972 Maine became the first state to split its electoral votes. As such, Maine is a microcosm of an increasingly divided United States, making Hidden Places an important title for contemporary American studies as well. An old political maxim reminds us: “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.”
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Jacks: African American Seaman in the Age of Sail (1997), is the significance of African Americans as mariners. Were there any African American members of the society? Personally, I would love to see the PEM construct a permanent online exhibit around this book. The value lies in the project’s interdisciplinarity. The chronology of the collection itself tells a story about Salem’s seafaring populace and global ambitions—an “American identity tied to the sea” (45). But the materialist lens ties in epistemologies from the histories of museums, science, and ethnography as well. Exhibits ranged from Tahitian tattooing instruments to Fijian sailing needles, fishing implements used in the Pacific Northwest, Indian textiles and palanquins, Chinese utensils and footbindings alongside dioramas of Native Americans. Like society members, “some visitors gained an appreciation for other cultures or new perspectives on the world outside of the city, state, or country, while others reconfirmed preconceived notions of faraway lands and people.” As Schwartz argues, objects could lose historical and contextual meaning after passing through multiple hands, but this, too, tells a story. Other items were produced collaboratively for display. A model of the ship Friendship was made by both American and Indonesian craftsmen. A mannequin of Parsee merchant Nusserwanjee Maneckjee Wadia wore donated clothing rooted in “a conscious desire to represent Indian culture in this new American institution.” In 1832, Elias Boudinot attempted to similarly influence representations of Cherokee by donating translations of the book of Matthew and other writings in the Cherokee syllabary. These men, understanding the importance of representation to politics, aimed to negotiate the terms of that representation. In 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt affirmed that the East India Marine Hall at PEM stood as a “memorial to the Golden Age of New England Shipping.” But Schwartz demonstrates far greater significance. Reading Collecting the Globe is a bit like observing a zoetrope story in motion—the story is compelling, but the mechanism of the story’s production is equally fascinating.
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B Bailyn, the influential and prolific historian of colonial and revolutionary America and the Atlantic world, died on August 7, 2020, at the age of ninety-seven. During his long teaching career at Harvard, he supervised more than seventy doctoral dissertations, my own among the last of them. In his retirement he served as mentor to hundreds more young scholars (366 to be precise), inviting them by the dozens to Cambridge each summer for the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, which he founded and ran from 1995 to 2010. Bailyn’s passing marks the end of a long scholarly era, associated with the enormous expansion of American higher education and the explosion of intellectual energy in the United States after the Second World War. Upon his death, obituaries and editorials repeated a “just-so” story about Bailyn’s career and his influence on early American history. This story originated, I suspect, in graduate historiography seminars following the 1967 publication of Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, and has been reified across subsequent decades in review essays, doctoral dissertations, and the introductions to monographs.1 The
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{"title":"In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America","authors":"Adah Ward Randolph","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00892","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"94 1","pages":"284-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46589542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
be the dominant interpretation for the foreseeable future. My only complaint is that there was little about Northern women who did not go South. And, among Northern white women, there are distinctions to be made about class and ethnicity that Glymph does not probe as she does the fissures between slave-owning and non-slave-owning Southern white women. Still, this is a powerful interpretation backed by a superb understanding of the sources and the literature.
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{"title":"An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I","authors":"M. McGuire","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"94 1","pages":"298-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46987657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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