The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
10 best books like The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (David Brion Davis): White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, The Cycles of American History, The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
The Englishmen in Jamestown who greeted the first "twenty Negars" who arrived in 1619 had already acquired an attitude toward the Negro–from tradition, from religion, from earlier European contacts with Africans. And as the Englishman became the colonial, and then the revolutionary patriot,...
| Author | Ira Berlin |
| ISBN | 0674016246 |
Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later.
Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century...
| Author | Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| ISBN | 0195145887 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history." On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against...
| 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 | Peter Silver |
| ISBN | 0393062481 |
The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, and Covenentors, the Irish, the German, the French, the Welsh—groups that rarely intermingled...
| Author | Eugene D. Genovese |
| ISBN | 0394716523 |
A fascinating, but vitally flawed, book, Roll, Jordan, Roll, is part Marxist-leaning polemic and part well-woven narratives of the slave experience in colonial and antebellum America. At just over 800 pages, Genovese's opus has become a classic in the field for its amazing scope and wide-ranging...
In this famous study, the author turned the hagiography of many earlier American historians on its head. Unlike those writers, who had stressed idealistic impulses as factors determining the structure of the American government, Beard questioned the Founding Fathers' motivations in drafting...
| 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 | 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 | Richard L. Bushman |
| ISBN | 0679744142 |
This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman...
| Author | Christine 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....
When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, the United States had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison,...
The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
| Author | Charles Grier Sellers |
| ISBN | 0195089200 |
This is certainly an interesting book, if you can manage to make your way all the way through. His basic premise is that the United States possessed a pre-capitalist economy before the War of 1812 populated by tradition-bound yeoman who toiled on the land for subsistence living. After the conflict concluded...
| Author | Joanne B. Freeman |
| ISBN | 0300097557 |
In this extraordinary book, Joanne Freeman offers a major reassessment of political culture in the early years of the American republic. By exploring both the public actions and private papers of key figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and Alexander Hamilton, Freeman reveals an alien and...
| Author | Kenneth M. Stampp |
| ISBN | 0679723072 |
This is a very basic survey history of American slavery based on the assumption that a black man is simply as a white man with a different skin colour. In other words Stampp's presents slavery from the common-sense perspective.
Since its publication in 1956 it has been criticized from all sides....
| Author | Bruce Levine |
| ISBN | 0809053535 |
Revised Edition
With a New Preface and Afterword
In a revised edition, brought completely up to date with a new preface and afterword and an expanded bibliography, Bruce Levine's succinct and persuasive treatment of the basic issues that precipitated the Civil War is as compelling as...
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
| Author | Alan Taylor |
| ISBN | 1400077079 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman,...
| 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 | Henry Wiencek |
| ISBN | 0374175268 |
A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking...
| Author | Vincent Brown |
| ISBN | 0674024222 |
The politics of power and control negotiated through death, to me is the main theme of the book. For enslaved Africans death might have disrupted their social lives but it also provided the avenue through which new customs or even old customs could be adapted to suit the prevailing circumstances. Brown's...
| Author | T.H. Breen |
| ISBN | 0195032063 |
A really interesting book, though I'm not sure it doesn't suffer from most of the problems of like microhistories in some way? I would love to have seen this on a more macro-scale, though I'm not sure if the documentation is there (and this is my problem with early America as a field, not necessarily with...
| Author | Maya Jasanoff |
| ISBN | 1400041686 |
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation....
| Author | Linda K. Kerber |
| ISBN | 0807846325 |
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers,...
