the new england qvarterly

A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters

The Problem of Land, Status, and Authority: How Early English Governors Negotiated the Atlantic World Carla Gardina Pestana 515 Community, Civility, Compromise: Dr. Holmes’s Boston Boardinghouse David Faflik 547 The Politics of Motherhood: Clarina Howard Nichols and School Suffrage Marilyn Schultz Blackwell 570 Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: A Retelling of Lydia Maria Child’s “The Quadroons” Heidi M. Hanrahan 599 Memoranda and Documents

The Mystery of the New York Reporter and the Massachusetts “Wild Man” Peter Zheutlin 617

Essay Reviews

Burn Me at the Stake Always Michael Moon 631

Book Reviews

Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, by Jon T. Coleman

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson Joseph Cullon 643

The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901, by Robert J. Spear Daniel Simberloff 646

Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England, edited by David R. Foster and John D. Aber

Sightseeking: Clues to the Landscape History ofNew England, by Christopher J. Lenney Kent Ryden 649 Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence, by Carol Berkin J. M. Opal 651 Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, by David Waldstreicher James Sidbury 653 Reading the Early Republic, by Robert A. Ferguson Carolyn Eastman 656 Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America, by Stephanie P. Browner Randall Knoper 658 Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts, by Michael C. Batinski Kerry W. Buckley 660 The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Communityin Colonial New England, by Robert Tarule Marie Morgan 662 Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont, by Michael Sherman, Gene Sessions, and P. Jeffrey Potash Peter C. Holloran 665 Night Journeys: The Power of Dreams in Transatlantic Quaker Culture, by Carla Gerona Martha L. Finch 667 The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638, by Theodore Dwight Bozeman Michael W. Kaufmann 669 Index to Volume LXXVIII 673

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