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A brief bibliography of some helpful introductions to eighteenth-century Anglo-American literary, political, urban, and art history, and a few primary sources, too.
| Bailyn, Bernard. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, Mass., 1974. |
| Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Mass., 1998. |
| Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1997. |
| Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776. New York, 1955. |
| Carretta, Vincent. Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-made Man. Athens, Georgia, 2005. |
| Copley, John Singleton. Letters & Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739-1776. New York, 1970. |
| Craven, Wayne. Colonial American portraiture: The Economic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Philosophical, Scientific, and Aesthetic Foundations. New York, 1986. |
| Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Rev. ed. New York, 2004. |
| Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr. The Trial and Execution for Petit Treason of Mark and Phillis. Cambridge, 1883. |
| Hamilton, Alexander. Gentleman’s Progress; The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744. Ed. Carl Bridenbaugh. Chapel Hill, 1948. |
| Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves. Boston, 2005. |
| Kamensky, Jane. The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse. New York, 2008. |
| Lepore, Jill. “Just the Facts, Ma’am,” The New Yorker, March 24, 2008. |
| Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. New York, 2005. |
| Lovell, Margaretta M. Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America. Philadelphia, 2005. |
| Massachusetts Historical Society. The Coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776, 2008. |
| Miles, Ellen G. et al. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. Washington, DC and New York, 1995. |
| Morgan, Edmund Sears. The Stamp Act Crisis. Chapel Hill, 1953. |
| Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass., 1986. |
| Pointon, Marcia R. Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven, 1993. |
| Porter, Roy. London: A Social History. London, 1994. |
| Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1966. |
| Reynolds, Joshua. Discourses on Art. Ed. Robert R. Wark. New Haven, 1975. |
| Sancho, Ignatius. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. Ed. Vincent Carretta. New York, 1998. |
| Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth: A Life and a World. London, 1997. |
| Watt, Ian P. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. Berkeley, 1957. |
| Whitehill, Walter Muir and and Lawrence W. Kennedy. Boston: A Topographical History. Cambridge, Mass., 2000. |
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