The New England Quarterly: June 2007

June 2007


Angelina Grimké: Asceticism, Millenarianism, and Reform
Marshall Foletta	179

The Tarring and Feathering of Thomas Paul Smith: Common Schools, Revolutionary Memory, and the Crisis of Black Citizenship in Antebellum Boston
Hilary J. Moss	218

The Alternative Taxonomies of Melville’s “The Encantadas”
Denise Tanyol	242

Agents of Imperialism: Missionaries and Merchants in Early-Nineteenth-Century Hawaii
Jennifer Fish Kashay	280

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Reconsiderations


American Indians Abroad: The Mythical Travels of Mrs. Penobscot and King Hendrick
Alden T. Vaughan	299

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Memoranda and Documents


Martha Dickinson Bianchi: War Poet
Marcy L. Tanter	317

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Book Reviews


American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, by Susan Scott Parrish
Tomomi Kinukawa	322

The Turkey: An American Story, by Andrew F. Smith
Harvey Levenstein	324

Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders, by Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
Melissa J. Homestead	326

Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America, by Peter C. Messer
John Smolenski	329

Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910, by Claudia Stokes
Elizabeth Renker	332

Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution, by Mark Puls
John K. Alexander	334

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, by A. J. Langguth
Donald R. Hickey	336

To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord, by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
Elise Lemire	338

Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, by Evan Carton
Zoe Trodd	340

Boston’s Back Bay: The Story of America’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project, by William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton
Matthew Klingle	343

From Slate to Marble: Gravestone Carving Traditions in Eastern Massachusetts, 1770–1870, by James Blachowicz
Dickran Tashjian	346

Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, by Thomas A. Foster
Ava Chamberlain	348

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