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Further Research: By Subject
If the materials on The Riversdale Bookshelf have sparked your interest, you may wish to pursue further reading in the history of the topics covered throughout this website.
Agriculture and Trade
Gardening
Maryland and Prominent Maryland Families
Printing and Publishing
Women and Reading
Below you will find a list of works we came across in our research. As with any research project, there is always “just one more book to read.” The Riversdale Bookshelf is no different. We did not have time to carefully read every title listed below. You may wish to refer to our Research Documentation Bibliography, which includes the print and online resources we relied upon in our research.
An alphabetical list is also available.
Anderson, Oscar. Refrigeration in America: A History of a New Technology and Its Impact. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Aslin, Mary. S. Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture published between 1471 and 1840. Aberdeen University Press, 1926?
Bassett, John Spencer. "The Relation Between the Virginia Planter and the London Merchant." American Historical Association Report (1901) 1: 558-571.
Bell, Whitfield J., Jr. and Ketcham, Ralph L., "A Tribute to John Bartram, with a Note on Jacob Englebrecht." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 83 (Oct. 1959): 446-151.
Berryman, Jack W. "John S. Skinner's American Farmer: Breeding and Racing the Maryland 'Blood Horse,' 1819-1829." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Summer 1981): 159-73.
Bezanson, Anne, R. D. Gray, and Miriam Hussey. Wholesale Prices in Philadelphia, 1784-1861. University of Pennsylvania Research Studies, v. 29. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1936.
Bidwell, Percy Wells, and John Ironside Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. New York: P. Smith, 1941, 1925.
Bierck, Harold A., Jr. "Spoils, Soils, and Skinner." Maryland Historical Magazine 49 (1954): 21-40.
Borgstrom, George. "Food and Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century." In Technology in Western Civilization, Vol. 1, Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell, Jr., eds, 408-424. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Earnest, Ernest. John and William Bartram: Botanists and Explorers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940.
Edwards, Everett E., ed. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Agriculture. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1937.
Edwards, Everett. "American Agriculture-The First 300 Years." Yearbook of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1940): 171-276.
Fletcher, Stevenson W. The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agrciculture, 1785-1955. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1959.
Gray, Lewis Cecil. "The Market Surplus Problems of Colonial Tobacco." William and Mary Quarterly 7 (October 1927): 231-245; 8 (January 1928): 1-16.
Green, Fletcher M., ed. Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839. James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, Vol. 43. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
Hawk, Emory Q. Economic History of the South. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1934.
Hess, Sister Mary Anthonia. American Tobacco and Central European Policy: Early Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1948.
Jacobstein, Meyer. The Tobacco Industry in the United States. Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, v. 26, no. 3. New York: Columbia University Press, 1907.
Lerch, Donald G. Dissemination of Farm Information Through Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Television: A Story of the Services in the United States, Including How They Developed, Function and Are Financed. Washington: International Cooperation Administration, 1960.
Lyman, Carrier. The Beginnings of Agriculture in America. New York: McGrall-Hill, 1923.
MacDonald, William. Makers of modern agriculture. London: Macmillan, 1913.
Marks, Bayly Ellen. "Economics and Society in a Staple Plantation System: St. Mary's County, Maryland 1790-1840." Ph.D. diss, University of Maryland, 1979.
Ogilvie, William Edward. Pioneer Agricultural Journalists; Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Editors in the Field of Agricultural Journalism. Chicago: Privately Printed, Arthur G. Leonard, 1927.
Robert, Joseph C. The Story of Tobacco in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.
Robert, Joseph C. The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860. Durham: Duke University Press, 1938.
Rogal, Samuel. Agriculture in Britain and America, 1660-1820: an annotated bibliography of the eighteenth-century literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Schlebecker, John T. Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607-1972. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1975.
Steiner, Jesse Frederick. "The Rural Press." American Journal of Sociology 33 (November 1927): 412-423.
Thompson, Edgar T. The Plantation: A Bibliography. Social Science Monograph 4. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1951.
Tucker, Gilbert Milligan. American Agricultural Periodicals: An Historical Sketch. Albany, N.Y.: Priv. Print. 1909.
Wilson, M. L. "Survey of Scientific Agriculture." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 86: 52-62.
Hedrick, U.P, and Elisabeth Woodburn. Horticulture in America to 1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950; reprint, Portland, Or.: Timber Press, 1988.
Hollingsworth, Buckner. Her Garden Was Her Delight. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. From Seed to Flower: Philadelphia, 1681-1876: A Horticultural Point of View. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1976.
Tucker, David M. Kitchen Gardening in America: A History. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993.
Maryland and Prominent Maryland Families
Adams, Donald R., Jr. "One Hundred Years of Prices and Wages: Maryland, 1750-1850." Working Papers from the Regional Economic History Research Center 5 (1982): 90-129.
Baker, Henry E. "Benjamin Banneker, the Negro Mathematician and Astronomoer," Journal of Negro History III (April 1918): 99-118.
Behrens, Kathryn L. Paper Money in Maryland, 1727-1789. Johns Hopkins University Studies Series 41, no. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1923.
Brooks, Lester Smith. "Sentinels of Federalism: Rhetoric and Ideology of the Federalist Party in Maryland, 1800-1815." Ph.D. diss, University of Michigan, 1986.
Burnard, Trevor. "'A Tangled Cousinry?': Associational Networks of the Maryland Elite, 1691-1776." Journal of Southern History 61 (February 1995): 17-44.
The Calvert Papers, 1516-1805. Maryland Historical Society Microfilm Project. Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society; dist. by Scholarly Resources, 1973.
Craven, Avery Odelle. Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1965.
Ellis, Donna M., and Karen A. Stuart, eds. The Calvert Papers: Calendar and Guide to the Microfilm Edition. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1989.
Gould, Clarence Pembroke. Money and Transportation in Maryland, 1720-1765. Johns Hopkins University Studies Series 33, no.1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1915.
Greene, Carroll, Jr. A Chronology of the Life of Benjamin Banneker: Son of Maryland, 1731-1806. Annapolis: Maryland Department of Economic and Community Development, Commission on Afro-American History and Culture, 1976.
Johnson, Emory R., et al. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States. 2v. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915.
Jones, Fred M. Middlemen in the Domestic Trade of the United States, 1800-1860. Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences v. 21, no. 3. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1937.
King, Julia A. "Tobacco, Innovation, and Economic Persistence in Nineteenth-Century Southern Maryland." Agricultural History 71 (Spring 1997): 207-236.
Messick, Jane Louise. The English Traveler in America, 1785-1835. Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1922.
Papenfuse, Edward C., and Coale Joseph M., III. The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland 1608-1908. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Pearl, Susan G. Historic Contexts in Prince George's County: short papers on settlement patterns, transportation and cultural history. Upper Marlboro, Md: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1991.
Phillips, P. Lee, "The Negro, Benjamin Banneker: Astronomer and Mathematician, Plea for Universal Peace." Records of the Columbian Historical Society 20 (1917): 114-120.
Smith, Daniel Blake. "Family Experience and Kinship in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society." Ph.D. diss, University of Virginia, 1978.
Tunis, Edwin. Shaw's Fortune: The Picture Story of a Colonial Plantation. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1966.
Watson, James Douglas. Prince George's County: past and present. Washington, D.C.: Federal Lithograph Co., 1962.
Wood, Fred J. The Turnpikes of Maryland. Daughters of American Revolution Magazine 54 (October 1920): 565-574.
Yentsch, Anne E. A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Alagia, Damian. A Check-List of Maryland Imprints from 1815 through 1818 with a Historical Introduction. American Imprints Inventory vol. 37. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1951.
Bardolph, Richard. Agricultural Literature and the Early Illinois Farmer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1948.
Barlow, Marjorie Dana, comp. Notes on Woman Printers in Colonial America and the United States, 1639-1975. New York: Hroswitha Club, 1976.
Cadell & Davies; Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The First Booklist of the Library of Congress: A Facsimile. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1981, 1800.
Cady, Edwin Harrison, ed. Literature of the Early Republic. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Carlson, Patricia Ann. "William Parks, Colonial Printer to Dr. Charles Carroll." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (October 1978): 408-412.
Carson, Cary, Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds. Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Chielens, Edward E. American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Clark, Thomas D. The Rural Press and the New South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1948.
Davis, Richard B. Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964
Davis, Richard Beale. Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978.
Drake, Milton. Almanacs of the United States. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1962.
Dunegan, Florence Mary. A Check-List of Maryland Imprints from 1823 through 1826 with a Historical Introduction of the Period. American Imprints Inventory vol. 39. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1952.
Farnhan, Luther, and Roger E. Stoddard. A Glance at Private Libraries. Weston, Mass.: M & S Press, 1855, 1991.
Filby, P. William. "The Early Maryland Printers: William Goddard and Friends." AB Bookman's Weekly (June 7, 1976): 3195-3214.
Frank L. Mott. A History of American Magazines, 1741-1850. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938.
Franklin, Aurelia. A Check-List of Maryland Imprints from 1819 through 1822 with a Historical Introduction of the Period. American Imprints Inventory vol. 38. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1951.
Harrison, Frederick. A Book about Books. London: J. Murray, 1943.
Jenkins, John Holmes. Early American Imprints: A Collection of Works Printed in America Between 1669 and 1800. Austin, Texas: Jenkins Co., 1977.
Joyce, William Leonard. Printing and Society in Early America. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1983.
Library Company of Baltimore. A Catalogue of the Books, &c. Belonging to the Library Company of Baltimore to Which are Prefixed, the Act for the Incorporation of the Company, Their Constitution, Their By-Laws, and an Alphabetical List of the Members. Baltimore: Prentiss and Cole, 1802.
Library Company of Baltimore. A Supplement to the Catalog of Books, &c. Belonging to the Library Company of Baltimore: 1816. Baltimore: J. Robinson, 1816.
McLeod, Anne Scott. American Childhood: Essays on Children's Literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
McMurtrie, Douglas. Pioneer Printing in Maryland. Springfield, Ill.: n.p., 1932.
McMurtrie, Douglas. The Record of Early Printing in Maryland. Cincinatti: Printed by Students of the Printing High School, 1941.
Miller, Michael. A Selected Bibliography of Sources on Maryland's Literary and Theatrical History. Annapolis: Maryland State Law Library, 1984.
Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines. 5 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938-68.
Murphy, Robert Bernard. A Check-List of Maryland Imprints from 1831 through 1834 with a Historical Introduction. American Imprints Inventory vol. 40. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1952.
Nichol, C. "Tobacco and the Rise of Writing in Colonial Maryland." Mississippi Quarterly, 50 (Winter 1996-1997): 5-17.
Pasley, Jeffrey L. "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Poore, Benjamin P. Biographical Sketch of John Stuart Skinner. New York: J. L. O'Connor, 1924.
Rede, Kenneth. A Bibliography of Maryland Imprints, 1809-1813. n.p.: n.p., n.d.
Robinson's Circulating Library. Catalogue of Robinson's Circulating Library Comprising Nearly Seven Thousand Volumes of Books in the Various Departments of Literature, Which Are Loaned for Perusal by the Year, Half-Year, Quarter, or Single Volume, Kept at No. 96 Market-Street, Baltimore. Baltimore: Robinson's Circulating Library, 1816.
Robinson's Circulating Library. First Supplement for 1816 to the Catalogue of Robinson's Circulating Library, no. 96, Market-Street. Baltimore: Robinson's Circulating Library, 1816.
Rutland, Robert Allen. "Well Acquainted with Books": The Founding Framers of 1787 with James Madison's List of Books for Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1987.
Schneidereith, Charles William. In Tribute to C. William Schneidereith, 1886-1976: This Being an Account of the Life and Work of a Third Generation Printer Who Devoted Seventy-Two Years to the Industry He Loved. Baltimore: Schneidereith, 1977.
Shaw, Ralph R., and Frances P. Newton. Early American Imprints, 1801-1819. New York: Readex Microprint, 1964, 1982.
Sherman, Stuart C., "The Library Company of Baltimore, 1795-1854." Maryland Historical Magazine 39 (March 1944): 6-24.
Soltyski, Agnieszka Maria. "Reading for Genre: Nineteenth-Century American Gothic." Ph.D. diss, University of California-Irvine, 1998.
Webb, Erna Mae. A Check-List of Maryland Imprints from 1811 through 1814 with a Historical Introduction of the Period. American Imprints Inventory vol. 36. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1954.
West, Charles Callan. Newspapers of the Antebellum South: Advertising Slaves and Editorializing on Slavery. University of Maryland, Thesis, 1972.
Wolf, Edwin. The Book Culture of a Colonial American City: Philadelphia Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Wroth, Lawrence C. An American Bookshelf 1755. New York: Arno Press, 1934, 1969.
Wroth, Lawrence. A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, 1686-1776. Baltimore: Typothetae of Baltimore, 1922.
De Courcelles, Dominique, and Carmen Val Julián, eds. Des Femmes et des livres: France et Espagne, XIVe – XVIIe siècle. Paris: Ècole nationale des chartes, 1999.
Harris, Susan K. 19th-Century American Women’s Novels: Interpretive Strategies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Haslett, Moyra. Byron’s Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
Michaelson, Patricia Howell. Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Papashvily, Helen Waite. All the Happy Endings: A Study of the Domestic Novel in America, the Women Who Wrote It, the Women Who Read It in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Harper, 1956.
Rieger, Angelica, and Jean-François Tonard, eds. La Lecture au féminin: La Lectrice dans la littérature française du Moyen Age au XX e siècle. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1999.
Ryan, Barbara, and Amy M. Thomas, eds. Reading Acts: U.S. Readers’ Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
Wolstenholme, Susan. Writing Women as Readers: Gothic (Re)Visions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
