Introduction: some thoughts on the present robust and disorderly state of early American history / Donald A. Yerxa -- Disjunctions in early American history / Pauline Maier -- The promise of empire / Edward G. Gray -- Continuity and change in early American studies / Don Higginbotham -- Comments on Pauline Maier's "State of the Field" / Peter S. Onuf -- Political history's demise? / Paul A. Rahe -- An agenda for early American history / Jack N. Rakove -- Rejoinder / Pauline Maier -- Richard Hakluyt's problem / Peter C. Mancall -- Jamestown redivivus: an interview with James Horn / conducted by Randall J. Stephens -- Re-bunking the pilgrims / Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs -- What happened to the Puritans? / Thomas S. Kidd -- The great meadow: sustainable husbandry in Colonial concord / Brian Donahue -- The colonial colleges: forging an American political culture / J. David Hoeveler -- Groping for national identity by forging a national cuisine / James E. McWilliams -- Local authority and the origins of the U.S. Constitution / Gordon S. Wood -- An interview with John Ferling / conducted by Joseph S. Lucas -- A world of kings / Brendan McConville -- 1816: a year of transition / C. Edward Skeen.
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