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Volume 57, Number 1, 2022Table of Contents
Invention
Articles

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View Preserving the History of Cemanahuac: Domingo Chimalpahin's Rewriting of Spanish Narratives in the Annals of His Time (ca. 1608–1615)
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View "The Voice of the Innocent Blood Cries Aloud from the Ground to Heaven": Speaking and Discovering Infanticide in the Early American Northeast
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View Property's Narratives: "Unreasonable and Unnatural Distributions of Human Will" in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn and Early American Contract Law
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View The "Impassable Morass" in Translation: Louisiana's Wetlands, Chateaubriand's Atala, and the Aesthetics of Colonial Ambivalence
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Review Essays
Book Reviews

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View Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 by Wendell Bird (review)
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View Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America by Brigitte Fielder (review)
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View The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic by Stephen Howard Browne (review)
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View Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher (review)
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View Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William L. Davis (review)
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View The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis by Lauren Working (review)
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View Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture by Eleanor Jones Harvey (review)
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View Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood by Cynthia A. Kierner (review)
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View Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas by Céline Carayon (review)
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Resources for Early American Studies

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View Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru by Charles F. Walker and Liz Clarke (review)
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Conference Reviews

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View "Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Age of Global Abolition" by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (review)
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View "Textual Editing and the Future of Scholarly Editions: A Conference on the Bicentennial of James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy" by the American Antiquarian Society (review)
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ISSN | 1534-147X |
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Print ISSN | 0012-8163 |
Launched on MUSE | 2022-02-04 |
Open Access | No |
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