The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
10 best books like The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Kevin Phillips): Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, France and England in North America, Vol. 1, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I), The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, The Armada
| Author | Walter A. McDougall |
| ISBN | 0060957557 |
A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian.
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," states Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement...
| Author | Fred Anderson |
| ISBN | 0375706364 |
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...
| Author | Francis Parkman |
| ISBN | 0940450100 |
This Library of America volume, along with its companion, incorporates, for the first time in compact form, all seven titles of Francis Parkman’s monumental account of France and England’s imperial struggle for dominance on the North American continent. Parkman conceived the project in 1841,...
| Author | David Hackett Fischer |
| ISBN | 0195069056 |
This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural...
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0385658397 |
To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed to be "a mere matter of marching," as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campaign of 1812 ended, the only Americans left on Canadian soil were prisoners...
| 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 | Jack N. Rakove |
| ISBN | 0679781218 |
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...
| Author | Mark E. Neely Jr. |
| ISBN | 0195080327 |
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vidal's...
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac...
| Author | Garrett Mattingly |
| ISBN | 0618565914 |
Chronicling one of the most spectacular events of the sixteenth century, The Armada is the definitive story of the English fleet’s infamous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The esteemed and critically acclaimed historian Garrett Mattingly explores all dimensions of the naval campaign, which...
| 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 | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 0395957931 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. In this updated edition, the prominent political historian continues to reflect on the "recurring struggle between pragmatism and idealism in...
| Author | William W. Freehling |
| ISBN | 0195072596 |
Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian...
| Author | William Appleman Williams |
| ISBN | 0393305619 |
William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with...
| Author | Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
| ISBN | 0195033108 |
I absolutely love this book though I have not gotten very far. I saw it one day last year in Barnes and Noble on the employee picks shelf. I was shocked when I went back to buy it, and the salesperson, a college age young woman, exclaimed, "Oh, that was my pick!! I loved that book. I was using it for research on...
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
| Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
| ISBN | 0385720599 |
Victor David Hanson, author of the highly regarded classic The Western Way of War, presents an audacious and controversial theory of what contributes to the success of military campaigns.
Examining in riveting detail the campaigns of three brilliant generals who led largely untrained...
Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier
| Author | James H. Merrell |
| ISBN | 0393319768 |
James Merrell's brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens," the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a reflection on the meanings of wilderness to the colonists and natives of the New World. From the Quaker...
Liberty! The American Revolution
| Author | Thomas Fleming |
| ISBN | 0670870218 |
Liberty! The American Revolution brings to life one of the most important and compelling stories in our country's history: the struggle for independence and the birth of the American nation. Historian and novelist Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative captures the high drama of the revolutionary...
| Author | Noel Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0060977752 |
Kosovo, a 55-mile-long plateau south of Serbia bordering Albania & Macedonia, should by all rights be a historical & political backwater. A Bulgarian geographer who visited Kosovo during WWI remarked it was "almost as unknown & inaccessible as a stretch of land in Central Africa." The...
| Author | T.R. Fehrenbach |
| ISBN | 0306809427 |
An insider's history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which have shaped the Lone Star State, from prehistory to the modern day
Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped...
Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill
| Author | Richard M. Ketchum |
| ISBN | 0805060995 |
Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage's redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside. Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms, the British decided to break out of town. American spies discovered their plans, and on the night of June 16, 1775, a thousand...
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
| Author | Thomas Byrne Edsall |
| ISBN | 0393309037 |
They have come to intersect with an entire range of domestic issues, from welfare policy to suburban zoning practices. In an explosive chain reaction, a new conservative voting majority has replaced the once-dominant Democratic presidential coalition, and a new polarization has pitted major segments...
