The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
7 best books like The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (Andrew Lipman): 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 Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World, Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
| 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...
| 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...
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...
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
| Author | Claudio Saunt |
| ISBN | 0393351157 |
In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters,...
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...
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...
