Books on Early American History and Culture 1986-1990

A companion volume to Books on Early American History and Culture 1991-1995 this work covers scholarship on early American history including North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This annotated bibliography surveys over 1000 monographs essay collections exhibition catalogs and reference works published between 1986 and 1990. In thirty-two thematic sections the book covers such topics as colonization rural life and agriculture and religion. This useful guide organizes the recent explosion of scholarly literature on pre-colonial colonial and early Republican America.