Frontier and Pioneer Life, Pre-Industrial Appalachia

Dennis, Jeff W. 2017. Patriots and Indians: The South Carolina Experience. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4844366. A compelling look at the germinal relationships between native populations and elite South Carolinians during and after the American Revolution.

Haskell, Alexander B, and Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 2017. For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press. By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within a deeply providential age rather than an era of early modern entrepreneurialism.

Inman, Natalie Rishay. 2017. Brothers and Friends: Kinship in Early America. Early American Places. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 184 pp. By following key families in Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Anglo-American societies from the Seven Years’ War through 1845, this study illustrates how kinship networks—forged out of natal, marital, or fictive kinship relationships—enabled and directed the actions of their members as they decided the futures of their nations.