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The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence

9 best books like The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (T.H. Breen): The Dark Is Rising, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

The Dark Is Rising
AuthorSusan Cooper
ISBN1416949658
"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; five will return, and one go alone.”

With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker,...
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
AuthorLizabeth Cohen
ISBN0375707379
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...
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN0679781218
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,...
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0809016346
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...
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
AuthorChristine Leigh Heyrman
Revealing a surprising paradox at the heart of America's "Bible Belt," Christine Leigh Heyrman examines how the conservative religious traditions so strongly associated with the South evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with very different social and political attitudes....
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN1594202907
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.

More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
AuthorPauline Maier
ISBN0679779086
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
AuthorAlfred F. Young
ISBN0807054054
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...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
AuthorWalter Johnson
ISBN0674005392
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,...
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