New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
10 best books like New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (Colin G. Calloway): The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, Errand into the Wilderness, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (Norton Library), A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
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 | Daniel K. Richter |
| ISBN | 0674011171 |
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.
Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled...
| Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
| ISBN | 0375707379 |
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.
Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption...
| Author | Clayborne Carson |
| ISBN | 0674447271 |
With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and...
| 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 | Ned Blackhawk |
| ISBN | 0674022904 |
Ned Blackhawk’s Violence over the Land presents the history of the Great Basin Indians and their interactions with the Spanish, British, and American empires. Blackhawk responds in this book to many harmful myths about the conquest of the American West. Most importantly, he undermines the idea...
Errand into the Wilderness
| Author | Perry Miller |
| ISBN | 0674261550 |
The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men...
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...
The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (Norton Library)
| Author | Francis Jennings |
| ISBN | 0393008304 |
In this iconoclastic book, Francis Jennings recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. The traditional history of early America paints the colonies as a transplantation of European culture to a new continent--a "virgin land" in which Native Americans were assigned the...
| Author | Michael Kazin |
| ISBN | 0385720564 |
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.
Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. In this acclaimed biography--the first major reconsideration...
| Author | John K. Thornton |
| ISBN | 0521627249 |
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World, this book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Author John Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European...
| 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...
| Author | Peter H. Wood |
| ISBN | 0393314820 |
File under: books that everyone interested in Colonial America needs to read. This is one of those rare books that actually managed to hit hard enough to break through a little into the basic story of American history that high school students are getting. One of Wood's main arguments here is that planters...
| Author | Woody Holton |
| ISBN | 0809080613 |
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution
Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we...
| Author | Gary B. Nash |
| ISBN | 0670034207 |
The Founding Fathers may have lead the charge, but the energy to raise the revolt that culminated in the victory of the American Revolution emerged from all classes and races of American society. The Unknown American Revolution plunges us into the swirl of ideology, grievance, outrage, and hope that...
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
| Author | Jon Butler |
| ISBN | 0674056019 |
Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience, Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in...
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
| Author | John Putnam Demos |
| ISBN | 0679759611 |
As a historical novel, it is a fantastic book and a wonderful read. Unfortunately, it wasn’t billed as such, and as an historical text, there are some significant issues here. Most critically, Demos in places confuses the Mohawks involvement with what were actually Abenaki, and he also seems to have...
Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto
| Author | Taiaiake Alfred |
| ISBN | 0195412168 |
When reviewing this book, I have to keep in mind that I am not the intended target audience. This book is aimed at indigenous peoples and proposes a way for people to through off the shackles of colonialism once and for all. That being said, I generally do not like reading manifestos. They generally suggest...
Indians in Unexpected Places
| Author | Philip J. Deloria |
| ISBN | 0700614591 |
Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That's why some images of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer?...
The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution
| Author | Thomas P. Slaughter |
| ISBN | 0195051912 |
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance...
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
| Author | Nikhil Pal Singh |
| ISBN | 0674019512 |
Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs...
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...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
| Author | Alfred F. Young |
| ISBN | 0807054054 |
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary...
