Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic
7 best books like Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (Joanne B. Freeman): The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, The Democratization of American Christianity
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 0375702628 |
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0679736883 |
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
| Author | Alan Taylor |
| ISBN | 0679773002 |
An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. Taylor...
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 0679732578 |
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her...
| Author | Sean Wilentz |
| ISBN | 0393058204 |
In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0521424607 |
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
The Democratization of American Christianity
| Author | Nathan O. Hatch |
| ISBN | 0300050607 |
In this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, arguing that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines...
