The historical information behind the exhibits and programs offered by the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia is vast. The books listed below are selection that provide a general historical context for the people and places represented at the Museum. Visitors interested in works dealing with specific arts and crafts, or special subjects are welcome to send an email request to info@fcmv.virginia.gov, and someone will respond with recommendations. For those interested in acquiring the titles below, we suggest:
General:
Bailyn, Bernard and Philip D. Morgan, eds.
Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Braudel, Fernand.
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century. New York : Harper & Row, 1982-1984.
DeVries, Jan.
The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Fischer, David Hackett.
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Canny, Nicholas, ed.
Europeans on the Move: Studies on European Migration, 1500-1800. New York: Clarendon Press, 1994.
German Exhibit Readings:
Fogleman, Aaron Spencer.
Hopeful journeys : German immigration, settlement, and political culture in colonial America, 1717-1775. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Holborn, Hajo.
A History of Modern Germany. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1982.
Imhof, Arthur Erwin.
Lost worlds : how our European ancestors coped with everyday life and why life is so hard today. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Lehmann, Hartmut, Wilson, Renate, and Wellenreuther, Herman, eds.
In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America. University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Paul, Roland.
300 Jahre Pfèalzer in Amerika = 300 years Palatines in America. Landau/Pfalz : Pfèalzische Verlagsanstalt, 1983.
Robisheaux, Thomas Willard.
Rural society and the search for order in early modern Germany. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Roeber, A.G.
Palatines, Liberty, and Property : German Lutherans in Colonial British America. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Wokeck, Marianne S.
Trade in strangers: the beginnings of mass migration to North America. University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Irish Exhibit Readings:
Bardon, Jonathan.
A History of Ulster, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1992.
Blethen, H. Tyler and Curtis W. Wood, Jr., eds.
Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997.
Brady, Ciaran, et al. eds.
Ulster: An Illustrated History. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1989.
Crawford, W.H.,
The Handloom Weavers and the Ulster Linen Industry, Belfast: The Ulster Historical Foundation, 1994.
Cullin, L.M.,
An Economic History of Ireland since 1660, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972.
Dickson, R.J.,
Ulster Migration to Colonial America, 1718-1775, Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996.
Gillespie, R.G.,
Settlement and Survival on an Ulster Estate: The Brownlow Leasebook, 1667-1711, Belfast, P.R.O.N.I., 1988.
Patrick Griffin.
The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Leyburn, James G.
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1962.
Robinson, Philip.
The Plantation of Ulster: British Settlement in an Irish Landscape, 1600-1670. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2000.
Perceval-Maxwell, M.
The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation Publications, 1999.
Roebuck, Peter, ed.,
Plantation to Partition: Essays in Ulster History in honour of J.L. McCracken, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1981.
English Exhibit Readings:
Barry, Jonathan, and Brooks, Christopher, eds.,
The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550-1800, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: MacMillan, 1994.
Bridenbaugh, Carl.
Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Briggs, Asa.
A Social History of England. New York: The Viking Press, 1984.
Campbell, Mildred.
The English Yeoman in the Tudor and Early Stuart Age, Reprints of Economic Classics. New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1968.
Fischer, David Hackett.
Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Kishlansky, Mark.
A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Kulikoff, Allan.
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Laslett, Peter.
The World We Have Lost. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1984.
Notestein, Wallace.
The English People on the Eve of Colonization. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1954.
Pounds, N. J. G.,
The Culture of the English People: Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
American Exhibit Readings:
Dunaway, Wilma A.
The First American Frontier : Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.
Hart, F.H.
The Valley of Virginia in the American Revolution: 1763-1789. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1942.
Hinderaker, Eric and Peter C. Mancall.
At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Hofstra, Warren R.
The Planting of New Virginia : Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Kegley, F. B.
Kegley's Virginia Frontier: the beginning of the southwest the Roanoke of colonial days 1740-1783. Roanoke, VA : Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938.
Kercheval, Samuel.
A History of the Valley of Virginia. Harrisonburg VA : C.J. Carrier, 1986.
Koons, Kenneth E. and Hofstra, Warren R., eds.
After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia 1800-1900. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Larkin, Jack.
The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790 - 1840. New York: HarperPerennial, 1988.
Lemon, James T.,
The Best Poor Man's Country : A Geogrpahical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Long, Amos Jr.
The Pennsylvania German Family Farm: A regional architectural and folk cultural study of an American agricultural community. Breinigsville, PA: the Pennsylvania German Society, 1972.
Mitchell, Robert D., ed.
Appalachian Frontiers. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1991.
---------------------- Commercialism and Frontier : Perspectives on the Early Shenandoah Valley. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1977.
Mitchell, Robert D. and Paul A. Groves, eds.
North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1990.
Nolt, Steven M.
Foreigners in their Own Land : Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic. University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2002.
Puglisi, Michael J., ed.
Diversity and Accommodation: Essays on the Cultural Composition of the Virginia Frontier. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
Stampp, Kenneth M.
America in 1857 : A Nation on the Brink. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Taylor, Alan.
American Colonies. New York: Viking, 2001.
Upton, Dell and John Michael Vlach, eds.
Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. Athens, GA: the University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Waddell, Joseph Addison.
Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871. Harrisonburg VA : C.J. Carrier, 1972.
Wayland, John Walter.
The German Element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Harrisonburg VA : C.J. Carrier, 1989.
--------------------------- A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Strasburg, Virginia : Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1927.
--------------------------- The Fairfax Line : A Historic Landmark. Edinburg, VA : Shenandoah County Historical Society, 1990.
--------------------------- The Valley Turnpike, Winchester to Staunton, and Other Roads. Winchester, Va. : Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, [1967].
Wolf, Stephanie Grauman.
As Various as Their Land: the Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans, New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1993.
Wust, Klaus.
The Virginia Germans. Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1969.
