Harvard History Graduate Student Association



Professor Walter Johnson

2013

Early North America and the Political Economy of the Atlantic

Origins of Atlantic Capitalism and the Era of Merchant Capital

Agnew, Jean-Christophe. Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theatre in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 (1986)

Appleby, Joyce.  The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism (2010)

Braudel, Fernand. Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century  (1981)

‘’ ‘’ Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (1977)

Brenner, Robert. et al. The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe  (1987)

Dobb, Maurice. Studies in the Development of Capitalism (1963).

Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (1972)

Hancock, David.  Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (1997)

Matson, Cathy. Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York (2002)

Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2001)

North, Douglass. The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 (1966)

Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations (1776)

Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System I-IV i

‘’ ‘’ Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth

Century

‘’  ‘’ Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1600-1750

‘’  ‘’ The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s-1840s

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (2002)

British North America and the Atlantic World

Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (2000)

Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990)

Crevecouer, J. Hector St. John. Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (1983)

Greven, Jr., Philip J.  Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts (1970)

Steele, Ian K. Warpaths: Invasions of North America (1994)

Taylor, Alan, American Colonies (2001)

‘’ ‘’ The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels and Indian Allies

(2010)

‘’ ‘’ William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996)

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region: 1650-1815 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

Capitalism and Slavery

Berlin, Ira.  ‘’ ‘’ Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)

‘’ ‘’ Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003)

Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery, From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997)

‘’ ‘’ The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988)

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution   L - HT867 .D38 1975

‘’ ‘’ The Problem of Slavery of Slavery in Western Culture (1967)   L HT871 .D3

Eltis, David.  “The Importance of Slavery and the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain,” Journal

of Economic History (2000).

‘’ ‘’ Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1987)

Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from he 1790s Through the Civil War (2004)

Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American

Negro Slavery (1974)

Galenson, David. Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America (1986)

Gaspar, David Barry. Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua (1985)

Genovese, Eugene  and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and

Bourgeois property in the Expansion of Capitalism (1983)

Genovese, Eugene. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the

Slave South (1965)

‘’ ‘’ Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1975)

Gutman, Herbert. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1976)

James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938)

Johnson, Walter. “The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question,”

Journal of the Early Republic (2004)

‘’  ‘’ “On Agency” Journal of Social History 37 (2004).

‘’ ‘’ Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999)

‘’ ‘’ River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013)

Kulikoff, Allan. The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992)

Lovejoy, Paul E. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (1983)

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)

Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1986)

Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (1998)

Post, Charles. The American Road to Capitalism (2011)

Price, Richard ed. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas (1973)

Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2009)

Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (2005)

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956)

Thornton, John .Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800, 2d ed. (1998)

Williams, Eric. Capitalism & Slavery (1944)

Wood, Peter H.  Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono

Rebellion (1974)

The American Revolution and the Early Republic

Appleby, Joyce.  Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (2000)

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

Beard, Charles A.  An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913)

Breen, Henry F. “‘Baubles of Britain’: The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century,” Past and Present 119 (1988): 73–104

‘’ ‘’  The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004)

Bushman, Richard.  The Refinement of America: Persons, Cities, Houses (1993)

Calloway, Colin G.  The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities (1995)

Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: ‘Woman’s Sphere’ in New England, 1780-1835 (1977)

Einhorn, Robin L.  American Taxation, American Slavery (2006)

Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976)

Gilje, Paul. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1784-1834 (1987)

Greenberg, Joshua. Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 (2008)

Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American

Revolution in Virginia (1999) L - E210 .H695 1999

Laurie, Bruce. Working People of Philadelphia (1983)

Lynd, Staughton. Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution (1967)

McCoy, Drew R. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (1980)

Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979)

Rediker, Marcus and Peter Linebaugh, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000)

Smith, Billy. The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800 (1990)

Thompson, Peter. Rum Punch & Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia (1999)

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic (1969)

‘’ ‘’ The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)

The Market Revolution and Early Industrialization

Appleby, Joyce.  Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (1984)

Clark, Christopher.  The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 (1990)

Henretta, James A.  “Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 35 (1978).

Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 (1977)

Johnson, Paul. A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (1979)

‘’ ‘’ Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper (2003)

Laurie, Bruce. Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America

Merrill, Michael. “Cash is Good to Eat: Self-Sufficiency and Exchange in the Rural Economy of the

United States,” Radical History Review 3 (1977).

Rothenberg, Winifred B. “The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750–1855,” Journal of Economic History 41 (1981): 283–314

Scranton, Philip. Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885 (1983)

Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 (1991)

Saunt, Claudio.  A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek :-) Indians, 1733–1816 (1999)

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990)

Way, Peter.  Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North American Canals, 1780-1860 (2009)

Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850 (1984)

Theories of Power, Space and Domination: Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays  (1971)

Arrighi, Giovanni. The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (1994)

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production (1984)

‘’ ‘’ An Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977)

‘’ ‘’ Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1984)

Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life (1984)

Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labor in Society (1933)

‘’ ‘’ On Morality and Society  (1973)

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth (1963)

Fields, Barbara J. “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America” New Left Review (1990)

‘’ ‘’ “Whiteness, Racism and Identity” International Labor and Working-Class History 60 (2001)

Foucault, Michel. The Archeology of Knowledge (1969)

‘’ ‘’ The Order of Things (1970)

‘’ ‘’ Discipline and Punish (1977)

Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)

Harvey, David. The Urban Experience (1989)

‘’ ‘’ The Limits to Capital (1982)

‘’ ‘’ The Enigma of Capital and the Crisis of Capitalism (2010)

Katznelson, Ira. Marxism and the City  (1992)

Lukes, Steven. Power: A Radical View (1974)

Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966)

Postone, Moishe. Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory (1993)

Roediger, David R.  The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class,

revised ed., (1999)

Scott, James C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday forms of Peasant Resistance (1985)

‘’ ‘’ Domination and the Arts of Resistance (1990)

‘’ ‘’ Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

(1998)

Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904)

Williams, Raymond. “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory,” Problems in

Materialism and Culture (1980)

‘’  ‘’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976)

'' '' Culture and Society (1958)

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