"Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated
Bibliography" continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on
North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Essential for scholars,
librarians, and students of early America, the book surveys nearly 1,200
monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogues, and reference works
published between 1971 and 1980. In addition to bibliographic information each
entry includes brief annotations, which describe the scope and approach to each
item and the book's main thesis. Also included are lists of journals where each
work has been reviewed and the number of times the book has been cited in
professional literature, and the number of