Further Reading

On 18^th Century America and the Seven Years’ War

The following tomes, all worthwhile, were among the resources employed in the creation of Die Fasting:

Anderson, Fred, The Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754—1766. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.

This book served as your present author’s base history text. Anderson’s interpretations and judgments seem eminently reasonable, and his choices of subjects to examine most appropriate. His newest book, The War That Made America, has just been published, and is the background of a four-hour PBS series of the same title.

Ball, Edward, Slaves in the Family. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.

Bidwell, Percy W. and Falconer, John I., History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, Vol. I. 1933.

Carruth, Gorton, What Happened When: A Chronology of Life & Events in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Chartrand, René, Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, Ltd., 2000.

Conniff, Michael L. and Davis, Thomas J., Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Ellis, Edward Robb, The Epic of New York City. 1966.

Foster, Thomas A., Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

Friedenberg, Zachary B., M.D., The Doctor in Colonial America. Danbury, CT: Rutledge Books, Inc., 1998.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J., City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.

Gipson, Lawrence Henry, The Great War for the Empire: The Victorious Years. 1967.

Greenberg, Douglas, Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York 1691-1776. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ Press, 1976.

Homberger, Eric, The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City’s History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994.

Irving, Washington, Knickerbocker’s History of New York. 1809.

Leckie, Robert, “A Few Acres of Snow” – The Saga of the French and Indian Wars. 1999.

Lowenthal, Larry, Marinus Willett: Defender of the Northern Frontier. Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2000.

Martin, Joseph Plumb, Private Yankee Doodle: Being A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier. Written around 1828, published 1830, re-published 1962 with editing by George E. Scheer.

Invaluable first-hand recollection of the way it really was.

Rothbard, Murray, Conceived in Liberty (Vols. I and II). New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1975.

Schama, Simon, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Random House, 1987.

Singleton, Esther, Social New York Under the Georges: 1714—1776. 1902.

Still, Bayrd, Mirror for Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present. 1980.

Tucker, Tom, Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite Hoax. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.

von Mises, Ludwig, Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1957.

One major tome your author admits to not having read is Francis Parkman’s monumental Montcalm and Wolfe (1884). Though told it’s actually great reading, its 2,500-page length seems daunting!

Some Acknowledgements

Indebtedness and gratitude are hereby expressed to the innumerable anonymous Internet website writers and organizers from whom your author has picked up what little he knows about such topics as:

· the operation of a “Brown Bess” musket

· mortality statistics for the Seven Years’ War

· 18^th Century diseases

· the Iroquois Confederacy

· popular music of the mid-18^th Century

· 18^th Century costume and accessories

· the Dutch Reformed Church (thanks also to e-mail correspondents Allan Janssen, Daniel Meeter, Howard Moths, David Voorhees, and Rett Zabriskie)

Lastly, I would also like to thank the volunteer readers of the manuscript of Die Fasting for their good will, sharp eyes, and kind comments: Phil Bowers, Sally & Bob Burns, Margaret Carriel, Ben Carriel, John Chodes, Frederick Cookinham, Antoinette Haskell, David T. Jones, and Fredda Kaufman.