Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
9 best books like Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Daniel K. Richter): Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
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 | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0809016346 |
The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
| 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 | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | Andrew Lipman |
| ISBN | 0300207662 |
Andrew Lipman’s eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact...
| 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...
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
| Author | Carol Berkin |
| ISBN | 1400075327 |
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing...
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
| Author | Sven Beckert |
| ISBN | 0375414142 |
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
| Author | Walter Johnson |
| ISBN | 0674005392 |
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged,...
