The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
8 best books like The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (Richard L. Bushman): Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
| Author | Daniel K. Richter |
| ISBN | 0674011171 |
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.
Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled...
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 0679733760 |
I read this book 15 years ago shortly after it won the Pulitzer, and it was amazing then, and I was equally impressed this time. In fact I was surprised as I read how much of it I could remember reading even that many years ago, so it must have made a deep impression.
I'm just in awe if LTU, the depth and...
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
| Author | Mark A. Noll |
| ISBN | 0802841805 |
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism's most respected historians.
Unsparing in his judgment, Mark Noll ask why the largest...
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
| Author | John W. Blassingame |
| ISBN | 0195025636 |
It was hard making it through this book. I gave it three stars instead of two for a couple of reasons. One is that I did learn from it, and found information that I had not previously known. The other is that the book contains a "Critical Essay on Sources" which is great, not just for the wide selection of sources...
Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World
| Author | Carla Gardina Pestana |
| ISBN | 0812241509 |
The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this cataclysmic movement of people and institutions was the intermixture of cultures in the colonies that Europeans created. Protestant Empire is the first...
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,...
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
| Author | Susan Sleeper-Smith |
| ISBN | 1469640589 |
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the...
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...
