Looking Back at the Latest WMQ Reviews

Here are links to pertinent book reviews in the latest issue of the William & Mary Quarterly. Check out the contents page, or click below to bring them through as PDF files:

• “Jefferson in Confucian Relief,” a review essay of Liu, Jiefeixun quan zhuan (A Complete Biography of Thomas Jefferson). By Andrew Burstein
• Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. By Sarah Rivett
• Bell, The Imperial Origins of the King's Church in Early America, 1607–1783. By Travis Glasson
• Bannet, Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680–1820. By Sarah M. S. Pearsall
• Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By Cara Anzilotti
• Block, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. By Nancy Isenberg
• Blauvelt, The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830. By Nicole Eustace
• Hatzenbuehler, "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry. By Peter S. Onuf
• Furstenberg, In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation. By Scott E. Casper
• Mason, Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. By Eva Sheppard Wolf
• Larson and Morrison, eds., Whither the Early Republic: A Forum on the Future of the Field. By Richard J. Bell

The full names in the lines above are the reviewers, the surnames the book authors who did the hard work. None of the Bells are relations.

And of course I must mention that the July issue’s reviews include Barry Levy’s evaluation of Children in Colonial America, edited by James Marten. (“J. L. Bell persuasively analyzes the central role that independent children played in patriotic Boston mobs before the Revolution”—have I mentioned that before?)