Origins of the New South, 1877-1913

6 best books like Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (C. Vann Woodward): Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, The Search for Order, 1877-1920, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

Author	Stephanie E. Smallwood
ISBN	0674023498

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.

Smallwood's...

The Search for Order, 1877-1920

Author	Robert H. Wiebe
ISBN	0809001047

At the end of Reconstruction, the lives of most Americans were still controlled by the values of the village, the conventional 19th-century beliefs in individualism, laissez-faire, progress, and a divinely ordained social system. But in the last decades of the century, the spread of science and...

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...

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

Author	James Oakes
ISBN	0393065316

A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.

Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous...

Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

Author	Sharon Block
ISBN	0807857610

In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.

Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications...

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

Author	Kathleen DuVal
ISBN	1400068959

A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society

Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s...