CONTENTS Third Series Volume XLIX JANUARY THE USES OF CAPITAL IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA: THE CASE OF THE NEW YORK LOYALIST MERCHANTS. By Edward Countryman. TIDAL RICE CULTIVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, 1760-1815. By Joyce E. Chaplin A MODEL PLANTER: EDWARD LLOYD OF MARYLAND, 1770-1796. By Jean B. Russo BRITISH MINISTERS AND AMERICAN RESISTANCE TO THE STAMP ACT, OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1765. By John L. Bullion Notes and Documents ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S HIDDEN SINKING FUND. By Donald F. Swanson and Andrew P. Trout TAKING POSSESSION AND READING TEXTS: ESTABLISHING THE AUTHORITY OF OVERSEAS EMPIRES. By Patricia Seed THE DISCURSIVE ENCOUNTER OF SPAIN AND AMERICA: THE AUTHORITY OF EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY IN THE WRITING OF HIsTorY. By Rolena Adorno PATTERNS IN EARLY SPANISH OVERSEAS EXPANSION. By John E. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND HIS ENTERPRISE TO THE INDIES: SCHOLARSHIP OF THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY. By Delno West. COLUMBUS AND THE NORTH: ENGLAND, ICELAND, AND IRELAND. By David B. Quinn THE INDIAN POPULATION OF NORTH AMERICA IN 1492. By John D. Daniels THE NEW ALLIANCE OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE EASTERN SPANISH BORDERLANDS. By Michael Gannon COLUMBIAN ENCOUNTERS: BEYOND 1492. By James Axtell REVIEWS OF BOOKS BOOKS RECEIVED JULY DEFERENCE, REPUBLICANISM, AND THE EMERGENCE OF POPULAR POLITICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA. By Richard R. THOMAS HUTCHINSON, EZRA STILES, AND THE LEGEND OF THE REGICIDES. By Mark L. Sargent Notes and Documents THOMAS TEACKLE’S 333 BOOKS: A GREAT LIBRARY ON VIR- GINIA’S EASTERN SHORE. By Jon Butler NEW EVIDENCE ON NEW SCOTLAND. By N.E.S. Griffiths and John G. Reid WHO KILLED JOHN STONE? A NOTE ON THE ORIGINS OF THE PEQUOT WAR. By Alfred A. Cave REVIEWS OF BOOKS COMMUNICATIONS CORRECTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS t OCTOBER THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE GILES RESOLUTIONS. By Eugene R. Sheridan THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC OPINION: JAMES MADISON’S “NOTES ON GOVERNMENT.” By Colleen A. Sheehan PARTISANSHIP AND POWER: HOUSE COMMITTEES AND THE POWER OF THE SPEAKER, 1789-1801. By Norman K. Risjord THE DYNAMICS OF ELECTORAL COMPETITION IN PRE-REVOLU- TIONARY VIRGINIA. By John G. Kolp JOHN LITHGOW’S LITHCONIA: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF AMERICA’S FIRST “UTOPIAN SOCIALIST” TRACT. By Michael Du- REVIEWS OF BOOKS COMMUNICATIONS