Early American History:



Early American History:The Atlantic World, Colonial America, and the United States, 1607 – 1877Examiner: Kyle G. VolkAtlantic and Colonial FoundationsOverviewsGreene, Jack and Philip Morgan, Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2009)Richter, Daniel, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (2011)Taylor, Alan, American Colonies: The Settling of North America (2002)Contact and Conflict, Social Order, and EmpireAnderson, Virginia, “King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England,” WMQ 51 (Oct. 1994)Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983)Mapp, Paul, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire (2011)Silver, Peter, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (2009)White, Richard, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 – 1815 (1991)Lockridge, Kenneth, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636 – 1736 (1970)Eustace, Nicole, “When Fish Walk on Land: Social History in a Postmodern World.” Journal of Social History 37 no. 1 (2003): 77-91.Lepore, Jill, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (1999)Butler, Jon, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1992)Hall, David, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1990)Kidd, Thomas, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (2009)Pagan, John Ruston, Anne Orthwood’s Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (2002)Tomlins, Christopher, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580 – 1865 (2010)Breen, T.H., “An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690 – 1776,” Journal of British Studies 25 (Oct. 1986)Pestana, Carla Gardina, Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2010)Race and Slavery in the Atlantic WorldFields, Barbara, “Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America,” New Left Review 181 (May/Jun., 1990)Berlin, Ira, “From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America,” WMQ (April 1996)Davis, David Brion, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006)Goetz, Rebecca Anne, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (2012)Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2001)Morgan, Edmund, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)Smallwood, Stephanie, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (2008)Revolutionary America and the Foundations of the RepublicOverviewWood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)The American Revolution and Its OriginsBailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)Holton, Woody, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution (1999)Jasanoff, Maya, "The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire,” WMQ 65, 2 (2008)Breen, T.H., The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004)Gould, Eliga, Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (2012)Creating the American RepublicWood, Gordon, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776 – 1787 (1969)Morgan, Edmund, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England & America (1988)Rogers, Daniel, “Republicanism: The Career of a Concept,” JAH 79 (1992)Rakove, Jack, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996)Edling, Max, A Revolution in Favor of Government (2003)Amar, Akhil Reed, The Bill of Rights: Creation & Reconstruction (1998)Holton, Woody, Unruly Americans & the Origins of the Constitution (2007)Kramer, Larry, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (2004)Taylor, Alan, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772 – 1832 (2013)Politics & Public Life in the “Golden Age” of American DemocracyOverviewsde Tocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America (1835)Silbey, Joel, The American Political Nation, 1838 – 1893 (1994)Keyssar, Alexander, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000)Wilentz, Sean, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005)Huston, Reeve, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy,” Commonplace (Oct. 2008)Baker, Paula, “The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780 –1920,” AHR 89 (Jun., 1984)Altschuler, Glenn and Stuart Blumin, “Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy,” JAH 84 (Dec. 1997)Hatch, Nathan, The Democratization of American Christianity (1991)Taylor, Alan, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1995)Brooke, John, “‘King George Has Issued Too Many Pattents for Us’: Property and Democracy in Jeffersonian New York,” JER 33 (Summer 2013)Ryan, Mary, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century (1998)Ryan, Mary, “Civil Society as Democratic Practice: North American Cities during the Nineteenth Century,” in Patterns of Social Capital, ed. Robert I. Rotberg (2001)Smith, Kimberly, The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, & Romance in Antebellum Politics (1999)Newman, Richard, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (2002)Kelley, Mary, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (2006)Neem, Johann, Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts (2008)Peart, Daniel, Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic (2014)Volk, Kyle, Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy (2014)\Law, State, & Empire in Nineteenth-Century AmericaOverviewHartz, Louis, The Liberal Tradition in America (1955)Morone, James, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2004) Novak, William, “The Myth of the Weak American State,” AHR 113 (Jun. 2008) Novak, William, The People’s Welfare: Law & Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (1996)Balogh, Brian, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth Century America (2009)John, Richard, “Government Institutions as Agents of Change,” Studies in American Political Development 11 (1997)Hartog, Hendrik, “Pigs and Postivism,” Wisconsin Law Review (1985)Horwitz, Morton J., The Transformation of American Law, 1780 – 1860 (1978)Hurst, J. Willard, Law and the Conditions of Freedom (1956) Rothman, Adam, “The ‘Slave Power’ in the United States, 1783 – 1865,” in Ruling America, eds., Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (2005) Rothman, Adam, Slave Country: Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (2007)Williams, William Appleman, “Empire as a Way of Life,” Radical History Review (1991) White, Richard, “The Federal Government and the Nineteenth Century West,” in It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West (1991)Gordon, Sarah Barringer, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America (2002) Social and Cultural Change in Nineteenth Century AmericaOverviewsHowe, Daniel Walker, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 – 1848 (2007)Clark, Christopher, Social Change in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War (2007)Zakim, Michael and Gary Kornblith, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012)Market Expansion, Class Consolidation, and the Culture of American CapitalismClark, Christopher, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780 – 1860Feller, Daniel, “The Market Revolution Ate My Homework,” RAH 25 (1997)Sellers, Charles, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815 – 1846 (1991)Halttunen, Karen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830 – 1870 (1983)Beckert, Sven, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850 – 1896 (2001)Levy, Jonathan, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (2012)White, Richard, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (1983)Free and Unfree LaborBender, Thomas, The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992)Genovese, Eugene, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1976)Johnson, Walter, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999)Johnson, Walter, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013)Johnson, Walter, “The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question,” JER 24 (Spring 2004)Rood, Daniel, “Bogs of Death: Slavery, the Brazilian Flour Trade, and the Mystery of the Vanishing Millpond in Antebellum Virginia,” JAH (Jun., 2014)Rockman, Seth, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008)Roediger, David, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991)Stansell, Christine, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789 – 1860 (1987)Antebellum Culture, Sectional Crisis, and Civil WarOverviewsMcPherson, James, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)Levine, Bruce, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War (1992)Towers, Frank, “Partisans, New History, and Modernization: The Historiography of the Civil War’s Causes, 1861 – 2011,” Journal of the Civil War Era 1 (June 2011)Political Culture and the Sectional CrisisSinha, Manisha, “Revolution or Counterrevolution?: The Political Ideology of Secession in Antebellum South Carolina,” Civil War History 46 (2000)Dew, Charles B, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (2002)Holt, Michael F., The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (2005)Neem, Johann, “Taking Modernity’s Wager: Tocqueville, Social Capital, and the American Civil War,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41 (Spring 2011)Stauffer, John, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2004)Rugemer, Edward, The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (2008)The Civil War and Its AftermathAyers, Edward, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859 – 1863 (2003)Faust, Drew Gilpin, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996)Faust, Drew Gilpin, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008)Manning, Chandra, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (2007)McCurry, Stephanie, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (2010)Stanley, Amy Dru, "Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights." AHR (June 2010)Vorenberg, Michael, "Bringing the Constitution Back In: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular Democracy during the Civil War Era," in Meg Jacobs, William Novak, and Julian Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment: The Promise of American Political History (2003)Vorenberg, Michael, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001)Emancipation and ReconstructionOverviewsFoner, Eric, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863 – 1877 (1988)Edwards, Rebecca, New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865 – 1905 (2006)Foner, Eric, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005)Foner, Eric, “The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation,” JAH (1994)Hahn, Stephen, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2005)Rosen, Hannah, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (2009)Stanley, Amy Dru, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (1998)Masur, Kate, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (2009)Quigley, David, Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (2004)West, Elliot, “Reconstructing Race,” Western Historical Quarterly 34 (Spring 2003)Hahn, Steven, “Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State,” Journal of the Civil War Era 3 (Sept. 2013)Smith, Stacey, Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction (2013) ................
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