3D SER., 45, NO. 1 (JANUARY 1988)
The “Great National Discussion”: The Discourse of Politics in 1787
Isaac Kramnick
3
Evangelicals Triumphant: The Baptists&#; Assault on the Virginia Glebes, 1786&#;1801
Thomas E. Buckley, S. J.
33
Errand to the Indies: Puritan Colonization from Providence Island
through the Western Design
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
70
Notes and Documents
James Oglethorpe and the Early Promotional Literature for Georgia
Rodney M. Baine
100
Alexander Hamilton&#;s Tontine Proposal
Robert M. Jennings, Donald F. Swanson, and Andrew P. Trout
107
Forum: Toward a History of the Standard of Living in British North America
Lorena S. Walsh, Questions and Sources for Exploring the Standard of Living 116
Gloria L. Main, The Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640&#;1773124
Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake135
Jackson Turner Main, Summary: The Hereafter160
Billy G. Smith, Comment163
John J. McCusker, Comment 167
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Reviews of Books
Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. I: Atlantic America, 1492&#;1800. By James Axtell 173
Thompson, Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649&#;1699. By Richard P. Gildrie 175
Toulouse, The Art of Prophesying: New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief. By E. Brooks Holifield 177
Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. By Philip F. Gura 179
Power and Status: Officeholding in Colonial America, ed. Daniels. By James Kirby Martin 182
Batinski, The New Jersey Assembly, 1738&#;1775: The Making of a Legislative Community. By Robert J. Dinkin 184
Giraud, The Métis in the Canadian West. By Nancy J. Christie 186
Ditz, Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750&#;1820. By Cornelia Hughes Dayton 189
Die Korrespondenz Heinrich Melchior Mühlenbergs: Aus der Anfangszeit des Deutschen Luthertums in Nordamerika. Band I: 1740&#;1752. Band 2:1753–1762, ed. Aland. By A. G. Roeber 191
Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. By Marc Egnal 193
Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Vols. 3&#;4, ed. Clark. Vols. 5–9, ed. Morgan. By David Syrett 196
Searcy, The Georgia&#;Florida Contest in the American Revolution, 1776–1778. By Clyde R. Ferguson 198
Dewey, Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer. By Adele Hast 200
The Papers of John Marshall. Vol. 3: Correspondence and Papers, January 1796&#;December 1798, ed. Stinchcombe, Cullen and Tobias. Vol. 4: Correspondence and Papers, January 1799–October 1800, ed. Hobson, Teute, Hoemann, and Hillinger. By James H. Broussard 202
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