{"title":"Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family by Sara Georgini (review)","authors":"Kate Carté","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45238375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis ed. by Barry Bienstock, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Peter S. Onuf (review)","authors":"N. Isenberg","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49260004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions by Micah Alpaugh (review)","authors":"José R. Torre","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Micah Alpaugh’s Friends of Freedom argues that in their struggle against the Stamp Act of 1765, the Sons of Liberty pioneered important communication and organizational techniques that ignited “social movements” across the “revolutionary Atlantic” (3). According to Alpaugh, the associations, correspondence committees, and coordinated actions the Sons “innovated” (74) had widespread transformative effects. In his account they were directly borrowed by British reformers and Irish nationalists, invigorated abolition movements first in America and then in Britain, and were adopted by French revolutionaries to form the Jacobin Clubs. From France, he continues, the Sons’ practices and ideas recrossed the Atlantic and provoked the Haitian Revolution before finally, in the hands of Citizen Genêt, returning back to the United States as the Democratic Republicans organized against the threat of an “effective Federalist dictatorship” (387). Two broad assertions drive Alpaugh’s analysis: first, that innovations in social technologies formed the sinews of eighteenth-century revolutions, and second, that these movements did not simply influence each other or arise simultaneously but were interconnected and “functioned as a totality” (7). The insistence on a direct connection between all these movements differentiates Alpaugh from other historians of the age of revolutions. Albert Goodwin’s The Friends of Liberty, for example, characterized the American Revolution as influencing British reform and the French Jacobins, but not as causally interconnected by people or practices.1 More recently, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal called in this journal for a cultural contextual approach that both “helps to elucidate the distinctiveness and significance of each [revolution] and the common threads among them” and describes “the period","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44405456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson (review)","authors":"Karin A. Wulf","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45724825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corlaer’s House: Diplomatic Spaces, Lineages, and Memory in the New York Borderlands","authors":"Erin B. Kramer","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For a century after his death in 1667, the Haudenosaunee nations used a shorthand version of Arent van Curler’s name—“Corlaer”—to refer to the Dutch and English settlers of the New York borderlands and their colonial governments. They also designated Albany as the gathering place for all diplomatic meetings and called it “Corlaer’s house.” Historians have debated why Van Curler the person became a symbol after his death, with many emphasizing his diplomatic skill (or lack thereof). However, looking beyond Van Curler as an individual and placing him within specific contexts of familial relationships and diplomatic households reveals how the Haudenosaunee used “Corlaer’s house” as a means of renewing their relationships with the settler families on their borders. During an era of violence and political turmoil, each mention of “Corlaer” was a reminder of the framework of sovereignty and cooperation that the Dutch and Haudenosaunee had committed to build. The synecdoche helped ensure that those who met in “Corlaer’s house” would heed the memories contained within it, memories as fraught as Van Curler’s life had been.","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45882703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elizabeth Seton: American Saint by Catherine O’Donnell (review)","authors":"Michael D. Breidenbach","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47336564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance by Heidi Bohaker (review)","authors":"Brenda J. Child","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43838646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace (review)","authors":"Jon Parmenter","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47416816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hilliard d’Auberteuil’s Mis Mac Rea: A Story of the American Revolution in the French Atlantic","authors":"Blake Grindon","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1784 a short novel set in North America, Mis Mac Rea, appeared in Paris. Its author was Michel-René Hilliard d’Auberteuil, a lawyer and former colonial administrator, and its subject was the death of Jane McCrea during the American Revolution. McCrea had become a popular figure of patriot propaganda following her death at the hands of British-allied Native warriors in 1777. Patriot versions of McCrea’s story had focused on demonizing Native Americans, but Mis Mac Rea presented a different racial reading, portraying Native people as honorable innocents led astray by the British military. Hilliard d’Auberteuil’s choice to write a sentimental novel about the American Revolution was a departure from his usual writing style; he remains best-known for his treatise Considérations sur l’état présent de la colonie française de Saint-Domingue, which attracted controversy due to his proposals for reforming the French Caribbean colony. Nevertheless, an examination of Hilliard d’Auberteuil’s treatment of McCrea’s story reveals a distinctly French interpretation, one that was consistent with his political writings, embedded in debates about the origins and definitions of race, and tied to anxieties about the proper management of French colonies in the Americas.","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48378214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic by Glenda Goodman (review)","authors":"David S. Shields","doi":"10.1353/wmq.2022.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0044","url":null,"abstract":"Glenda Goodman’s Cultivated by Hand investigates personal collections of hand-copied music compiled during the decades after the American Revolution. Goodman undertakes a journey of exploration through collections of music manuscripts copied by the daughters and a few sons of the merchant and professional classes in New England and New York. Her goal is to show how scholars can adduce historical meanings by studying materiality, temporality, implicit knowledge about the gamut and harmony, tastes in consumption, gender politics, and suggested community found inscribed on the pages. The audacity of her scholarship lies in locating musical meaning not in the creativity of the composers’ works contained in the manuscripts, nor even in the expressiveness of amateur performances at home or in social settings. Rather, as Goodman shows, the handwork of the copied music itself was what mattered the most to the copyist to whom it belonged, for that work crafted a personal mirror in which to discover her (or his) sensibility, cosmopolitanism, and allegiance to galant style. Goodman explictly departs from many of the traditional concerns of musicology of the United States, such as glossing the cultural functions of genres, appreciating the character of masterworks, or measuring the transatlantic tides of influence. Of work in the field, her scholarship most resembles Susan L. Porter’s With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America 1785–1815, which explores how theatrical music and performance style traversed the Atlantic and instilled a taste for elegance, lightness, wit, and urbanity in postrevolutionary American audiences.1 Porter’s work proves useful because Goodman found many song and dance tunes in her archives that were by the English theatrical composers Porter examines, such as William Shield. Yet Goodman is not greatly concerned with measuring to what degree galant music—the jaunty, danceable, sentimental music of the pleasure gardens and stage—enabled her subjects to perform gentility or stylishness in public spaces. What Goodman finds powerful is how the time and effort of copying a galant piece made a personal claim to the music. Handwritten music, in this view, becomes a deposit of sensibility, or even personhood.2","PeriodicalId":51566,"journal":{"name":"WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43940681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}