James E McWilliams is Associate Professor of history at Texas State University, San Marcos. He specializes in American history, of the colonial and early national period, and in the environmental history of the United States. he also writes for the The Texas Observer and the History News Service, and has published a number of op-eds on food in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today.

He received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1991, and his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He is the winner of the 2001 Whitehall Prize in Colonial History.

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Just Food: How Locavores are Endangering the Future of Food and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (Little, Brown, 2009) ISBN 978-0-316-03374-9
American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT (Columbia, 2008) (held in 563 worldCat libraries

Review: "American Pests": Our wrongheaded approach to insect control: Bugged to death: James E. McWilliams takes on insects, agriculture and pesticides in "American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT." By Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times, August 8, 2008 [1]

Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts (University of Virginia, 2007)
A Revolution in Eating: how the quest for food shaped America (Columbia, 2005) (held in 868 worldCat libraries

Peer-reviewed articles

“The horizon opened up very greatly.: Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894-1927” Agricultural History (Fall 2008).
“Cuisine and National Identity in the Early Republic,” Historically Speaking (May/June 2006), 5-8.
”African Americans, Native Americans, and the Origins of American Food,” The Texas Journal of History and Genealogy. Volume 4 (2005), p.12-16.
" 'how unripe we are': An Intellectual Construction of American Food,” Food, Society, and Culture (Fall 2005), p. 143-160.
“‘To Forward Well-Flavored Productions’: The Kitchen Garden in Early New England.” The New England Quarterly (March 2004), p. 25-50.
“Integrating Primary and Secondary Sources,” Teaching History (Spring 2004), p. 3-14.
“The Transition from Capitalism and the Consolidation of Authority in the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1607-1760: An Interpretive Model,” Maryland Historical Magazine

(Summer 2002), p. 135-152.

“New England’s First Depression: An Export-Led Interpretation,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Summer 2002), p.1-20 .
“Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay,” The New England Quarterly (September 2001), p. 355-384. (Winner of the

2000 Whitehill Prize in Colonial History for the best essay published that year in colonial history).

“Brewing Beer in Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1690.” The New England Quarterly (December 1998), p. 353-384.

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