REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES

THE AMERICAS: LAND OF SAVAGERY LAND OF PROMISE: THE EUROPEAN IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. By Ray Allen Billington. THE AMERICAS: THE AMERICAN FRONTIER REVISITED. By Margaret Walsh. THE AMERICAS: SAVAGISM AND CIVILITY: INDIANS AND ENGLISHMEN IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA. By Bernard W. Sheehan. THE AMERICAS: ‘MYNE OWNE GROUND’: RACE AND FREEDOM ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE, 1640–1676. By T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes. THE AMERICAS: PURITANS AND ADVENTURERS: CHANGE AND PERSISTENCE IN EARLY AMERICA. By T. H. Breen. THE AMERICAS: INSIDE THE GREAT HOUSE: PLANTER FAMILY LIFE IN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY CHESAPEAKE SOCIETY. By Daniel Blake Smith. THE AMERICAS: WEALTH OF A NATION TO BE: THE AMERICAN COLONIES ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION. By Alice Hanson Jones. THE AMERICAS: REVOLUTION, REFORM, AND THE POLITICS OF AMERICAN TAXATION, 1763–1783. By Robert A. Becker. THE AMERICAS: SHAYS' REBELLION: THE MAKING OF AN AGRARIAN INSURRECTION. By David P. Szatmary. THE AMERICAS: THE FIRST AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONS: REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY AND THE MAKING OF THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA. By Willi Paul Adams. THE AMERICAS: EXPLAINING AMERICA: THE FEDERALIST. By Garry Wills. THE AMERICAS: THE ELUSIVE REPUBLIC: POLITICAL ECONOMY IN JEFFERSONIAN AMERICA. By Drew R. McCoy. THE AMERICAS: CRADLE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS: THE FAMILY IN ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1790–1865. By Mary P. Ryan. THE AMERICAS: FRONTIERS OF CHANGE: EARLY INDUSTRIALISM IN AMERICA. By Thomas C. Cochran. THE AMERICAS: TRANSATLANTIC INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: THE DIFFUSION OF TEXTILE TECHNOLOGIES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1790–1830s. By David J. Jeremy. THE AMERICAS: ALEXANDER HOLLEY AND THE MAKERS OF STEEL. By Jeanne McHugh. THE AMERICAS: A DEPLORABLE SCARCITY: THE FAILURE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE SLAVE ECONOMY. By Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss. THE AMERICAS: AN IMPERFECT UNION: SLAVERY. FEDERALISM AND COMITY. By Paul Finkelman. THE AMERICAS: MARY CHESNUT'S CIVIL WAR. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. THE AMERICAS: THE ORIGINS OF AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR. By Bruce Collins. THE AMERICAS: FROM REBELLION TO REVOLUTION: AFRO‐AMERICAN SLAVE REVOLTS IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD. By Eugene D. Genovese. THE AMERICAS: SLAVERY REMEMBERED: A RECORD OF TWENTIETH‐CENTURY SLAVE NARRATIVES. By Paul D. Escott. THE AMERICAS: BLACK ODYSSEY: THE AFRO‐AMERICAN ORDEAL IN SLAVERY. By Nathan Irvin Huggins. THE AMERICAS: PASSIONATE LIBERATOR: THEODORE DWIGHT WELD AND THE DILEMMA OF REFORM. By Robert Abzug. THE AMERICAS: CHILDHOOD, MARRIAGE AND RE