Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
9 best books like Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Eugene D. Genovese): Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Author | C. Vann Woodward |
ISBN | 0195146905 |
C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this...
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Author | Deborah Gray White |
ISBN | 0393314812 |
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave...
Author | David M. Potter |
ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
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...
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
Author | David R. Roediger |
ISBN | 1859842402 |
The point of this book is that it has been hugely influential and it is worth reading for that reason, even though it has merely opened the gate through which many later writers have poured. It does not make exaggerated claims for itself and the author’s preface lists defects in a way that I cannot. Instead...
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
ISBN | 0521428386 |
It is hard to believe that this book is over twenty years old. I still refer to it when discussing the Great Depression and the formation of the New Deal coalition of the 1930s. I think the greatest strength of the book is the detailed description Cohen gives us of the social safety net that existed in the...
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,...
Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
Author | Elaine Tyler May |
ISBN | 0465030556 |
In the 1950s, the term ”containment” referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the ”sphere of influence” was the home. Within its walls, potentially...