Trevor Burnard, 'Making Foot-soldiers of Empire: Ordinary Whites and the rise of the Plantation System in British America'. Electronic version here

Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Early America, 1688-1776 (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2006), 1-11, 81-169. Electronic version here

Christopher L. Tomlins, Freedom Bound : Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865(New York, 2010), chapter eight. Electronic version here