| Contents | The William and Mary Quarterly, 62.1

Vol. LXII, No. 1

January 2005

Editorial staff

Forum: Alternative Histories of the Public Sphere

Introduction
Christopher Looby	3

The Bavarian Illuminati, the Early American Novel, and Histories of the Public Sphere
Bryan Waterman	9

Being Alone in the Age of the Social Contract
Eric Slauter	31

The Early American Public Sphere and the Emergence of a Black Print Counterpublic
Joanna Brooks	67

On the Edges of the Public Sphere
John L. Brooke	93

Inside and Outside the Public Sphere
Ruth H. Bloch	99

Two Cheers for the "Public Sphere"... and One for Historians' Skepticism
David Waldstreicher	107

Reviews of Books

RACINE, Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution.
By Margaret Ellen Newell	113

SKEEN, 1816: America Rising.
By Johann N. Neem	117

FOSTER, Moral Visions and Material Ambitions: Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776–1836.
By Lawrence A. Peskin	120

DONOHUE, The Great Meadow.
By Steven Stoll	123

HALLOCK, From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826.
By Christopher Iannini	126

WOOD, This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775.
By Lorena Walsh	129

OTTERNESS, Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York.
By Patrick M. Erben	133

BILLINGS, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century.
By April Lee Hatfield	136

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