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According to Wikipedia, Timothy H. Breen is currently the William Smith Mason Professor of American History Emeritus at Northwestern University and a James Marsh Professor at Large at the University of Vermont. He is the founding director of the Kaplan Humanities Center and the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern. Breen is a specialist on the American Revolution. He studies the history of early America with a special interest in political thought, material culture, and cultural anthropology. Breen has published multiple books and over 60 articles. In 2010 he released his latest book, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. Breen won the Colonial War Society Prize for the best book on the American Revolution for Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence , the T. Saloutus Prize for agricultural history for his book Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters of the Eve of Revolution, and the Historical Preservation Book Prize for his work Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories, and several prizes for "George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation." Breen also holds awards for distinguished teaching from Northwestern.

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“BAUBLES OF BRITAIN”: THE AMERICAN AND CONSUMER REVOLUTIONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1988) (207)
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004) (176)
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina From 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (1974) (156)
An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690–1776 (1986) (143)
The Mentalite of Debt: The Virginia Paradox@@@Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. (1987) (101)
Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions Once More in Need of Revising (1997) (93)
Horses and gentlemen: the cultural significance of gambling among the gentry of Virginia. (1977) (83)
"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1677 (1982) (56)
Narrative of commercial life: Consumption, ideology, and community on the eve of the American (1993) (44)
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (2010) (42)
A changing labor force and race relations in virginia 1660-1710 (1973) (39)
Subjecthood and Citizenship: The Context of James Otis's Radical Critique of John Locke (1998) (37)
The Puritans' Greatest Achievement: A Study of Social Cohesion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (1973) (36)
The Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century. Ed. by P. J. Marshall. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxii, 639 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-820563-5.) (1999) (28)
Persistent Localism: English Social Change and the Shaping of New England Institutions (1975) (27)
Cultural Baggage: Lug It Or Leave It@@@Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America. (1981) (25)
The character of the good ruler;: A study of Puritan political ideas in New England, 1630-1730, (1970) (25)
Moving to the New World: The Character of Early Massachusetts Immigration (1973) (19)
Lesbian and Gay Visions of Ireland: Towards the Twenty-First Century (1999) (18)
The meanings of things: interpreting the consumer economy in the eighteenth century (2013) (17)
Structuring Provincial Imagination: The Rhetoric and Experience of Social Change in (1998) (16)
The American Story (2001) (14)
The meaning of ‘likeness’: American portrait painting in an eighteenth-century consumer society (1990) (12)
The Non-Existent Controversy: Puritan and Anglican Attitudes on Work and Wealth, 1600-1640 (1966) (12)
Tobacco Culture (10)
Motive for Murder: A Servant's Life in Virginia, 1678 (1983) (7)
Who Governs: The Town Franchise in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (1970) (7)
The Lockean moment : the language of rights on the eve of the American Revolution : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 15 May 2001 (2001) (7)
ENGLISH ORIGINS AND NEW WORLD DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THE COVENANTED MILITIA IN SEVENTEENTH–CENTURY MASSACHUSETTS (1972) (6)
Back to Sweat and Toil: Suggestions for the Study of Agricultural Work in Early America (1982) (6)
Last voyages : Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh : the original narratives (1992) (5)
The Pursuit of Happiness: Family Values in Jefferson's Virginia. By Jan Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xix + 290 pp. $24.95) (1985) (5)
George Donne's "Virginia Reviewed": A 1638 Plan to Reform Colonial Society (1973) (5)
The Character of the Good Ruler: Puritan Political Ideas in New England, 1630-1730 (1971) (5)
John Adams' Fight against Innovation in the New England Constitution: 1776 (1967) (4)
The Great Wagon Road (1997) (4)
Will American Consumers Buy a Second American Revolution (2006) (3)
George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation (2016) (2)
Shaping Southern Society: The Colonial Experience (1976) (2)
Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia (1979) (2)
Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia (2010) (1)
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America (2021) (1)
The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent (2015) (1)
The contagion of rebellion (1994) (0)
The Conflict in The Golden Bough: Frazer’s Two Images of Man (1967) (0)
Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (2003) (0)
The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. By Nancy F. Koehn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 239. $29.95 (1995) (0)
America: Past & Present (1985) (0)
The Early Modern Atlantic Economy, ed. by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan (Cambridge: Cambridge V.P., 2000, pp. 369. 40) (2001) (0)
New York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change: Archdeacon, Thomas F.: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 197 pp., Publication Date: February 15, 1976 (1976) (0)
Brendan McConville. The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. 2006. Pp. xii, 322. $39.95 (2007) (0)
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America by Jennifer L. Anderson (review) (2013) (0)
An Appeal to Heaven: The Language of Rights on the Eve of American Independence (2004) (0)
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. By Jennifer L. Anderson (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2012) 424 pp. $35.00 (2013) (0)
Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution (review) (2009) (0)
The Miracle of Print: Shaping Popular Religion in Seventeenth-Century New England@@@Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. (1991) (0)
The power of words : documents in American history (1996) (0)
Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution. By Nicole Eustace (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008) 613 pp. $45.00 (2009) (0)
Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution. By Barry Levy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. vi, 354 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4177-8.) (2010) (0)
All about the Benjamin: The imperial dream of the Founding Father who did not need the Revolution to become famous (2016) (0)
The Right and Wrong Stuff (1986) (0)
From Freedom to Bondage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia@@@"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. (1982) (0)
From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community (review) (1999) (0)
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans . By Malcolm Gaskill . ( New York : Basic Books , 2014 . Pp. xviii, 466. $35.00 .) (2015) (0)
Paul Halstead and John O'Shea, eds., Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). (1991) (0)
John Garrett. Roger Williams: Witness beyond Christendom 1603–1683. [New York:] Macmillan Company. 1970. Pp. x, 306. $7.50 (1972) (0)

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