Recommended Secondary Readings
The following is a list of books and articles relevant to the module,
especially the more recent publications. You are naturally not expected
to have read all the items it contains by the end of the course.
However, it is important that you should supplement the lectures
with additional reading. You should refer to this list frequently
as the lecture course progresses, and you should make a point of
devoting a little time at regular intervals to following up the
arguments and opinions expressed in the lecture by consulting some
of the works listed here.
This list is by no means exhaustive. Therefore, these books should
be your starting points when researching essay questions, don't
restrict yourself to just the books that are listed below, but follow
up with broader searches of the library's holdings.
The titles of books and the names of periodicals have been italicised.
Books are listed in the GUL computerised catalogue by author and
title; in the case of periodicals, you need to consult the appropriate
volume of the periodical (identified by a volume number and the
year of publication) to find the article you need.
General Textbooks.
Course books recommended for purchase.
- George Brown Tindal and David Emory Shi, America: A Narrative
History (brief sixth edition)
Surveys covering America and reference works.
- Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and
the Men Who Made It
- Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural
America
- Colin McEvedy, The Penguin Atlas of North American History
First Contact, Early Settlement and the Colonial Era.
- Friederich Katz, The Ancient American Civilizations,
translated K.M. Lois Simpson
- Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America: An
Introduction
- Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan
Idea
- Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness
- Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town, The First Hundred
Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736
- David Hackett Fischer, Four English Folkways in America:
The Origins of Regional Cultures in the New World
- Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The
Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
- William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists,
and the Ecology of New England
- Robert Gough, "The Myth of the "Middle Colonies":
An Analysis of Regionalization in Early America," Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography 107 (1983), 393-419
- Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern
Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800
- Gary Nash, Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania 1681-1726
- Mary Maples Dunn, "Saints and Sisters: Congregational and
Quaker Women in the Early Colonial Period," American Quarterly
30 (1978), 582-601
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Images and Reality in
the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
General Histories:
- Richard Middleton, Colonial America, 1607-1760
- Mary K. Geiter, Colonial America: from Jamestown to Yorktown
- Alan Taylor, American Colonies: the settling of north America
- J.H. Elliot, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain
in America 1492-1830
- Anthony McFarlane, The British in the Americas 1480-1815
- Steven Sarson, British America 1500-1800: creating colonies,
imagining an empire
Native Americans:
- Gregory H. Nobles, American frontiers: cultural encounters
and continental conquest
- Karen Kupperman, Indians and English: facing off in North
America
- J.C.H King, First people, first contacts: Native peoples
of North America
- Francis Jenning, The invasion of America: Indians, colonialism
and the cant of conquest
Slavery:
- David Eltis, The rise of African Slavery in the Americas
- Gad Heuman and James Walvin, The Slavery Reader
- Peter Kolchin, American Slavery 1619-1877
- James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, Slavery and the making
of America
- Peter J. Parish, Slavery: history and historians
- Frederick M. Binder, The color problem in early national
America, as viewed by John Adams, Jefferson and Jackson
The American Revolution and the New National Government.
- Edward Countryman, The American Revolution
- Gary Nash, The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and
the Origins of the American Revolution
- Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- Alfred F. Young, ed. The American Revolution: Explorations
in the History of Radicalism
- John McCusker and Russell Menard, The Economy of British
America, 1607-1789
- Edmund and Helen Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to
Revolution
- Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology
in Revolutionary America
- Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the American Revolution
- Gregory Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian
Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815
- Robert Gross, The Minutemen and their World
- Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental
Army and American Character
- Richard Beeman, ed., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the
Constitution and American National Identity
- William Freehling, "The Founding Fathers and Slavery"
American Historical Review 77 (1972), 81-93
- Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
- Edmund Morgan, The Birth of the Republic 1763-1789
- Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: the American Revolution
1763-1789
- John Derry, English Politics and the American Revolution
- Marc Egnal, A mighty empire: the origins of the American
Revolution
- John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: the struggle to create
the American Republic
- Eliga G. Gould, The persistence of empire: British political
culture in the age of the American Revolution
- Carl L. Becker, The Spirit of '76 and other essays
- Robert W. Tucker and Robert C. Hendrickson, The fall of the
first British Empire: origins of the American War of Independence
- Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, debtors, slaves,
and the making of the American Revolution
- Carl L. Becker, The Declaration of Independence: a study
in the history of political ideas
- Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole, A Companion to the American
Revolution
The Early Republic/ Jacksonian America
- Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican
Vision of the 1790s
- Richard K. Matthews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson:
A Revisionist View
- Barry Schwartz, George Washington: The Making of an American
Symbol
- Arthur Sclesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson
- Paul Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals
in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
- Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida
County, New York, 1790-1865
- Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: "Women's Sphere"
in New England, 1780-1835
- Ramon Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away:
Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
- Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism:
The Early American Republic, 1788-1800
- Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the course of American
freedom, 1822-1832
- Richard B. Latner, The presidency of Andrew Jackson: White
House politics, 1829-1837
- Glyndon G. Van Deusen, The Jacksonian Era 1828-1848
- Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America
1815-1846
- John William Ward, Andrew Jackson: symbol for an age
North and South: Sectionalism in the New Nation.
- Robert Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall
of American Slavery
- Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology
of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
- Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves
Made
- Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North
- James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the
Old South
- William Piersen, Black Yankees
- Bruce Laurie, Artisans Into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth
Century America
- Susan-Mary Grant, North over South: northern nationalism
and American identity in the antebellum era
- Richard H. Sewell, A house divided: sectionalism and the
Civil War 1848-1865
- Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West: the eclipse
of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War
- Robert Royal Russel, Critical studies in antebellum sectionalism:
essays in American political and economic history
Native Americans and the West.
- Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins
of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
- Ray Allen Billington, America's Frontier Heritage
- Ray Allan Billington, The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860
- Frederick Jackson Turner, Frontier and Section
- Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol
and Myth
- John Mack Faragher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail
- Philip Weeks, Farewell, My Nation: The American Indian and
the United States, 1820-1890
- Robert M. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West,
1846-1890
- David J. Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American
Southwest Under Mexico
- Leonard A. Carlson, Indians, Bureaucrats, and Land
- Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the
Growth of the American West
- Gilbert C. Fite, The Farmers' Frontier, 1865-1900
- Mark Wyman, Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial
Revolution, 1860-1910
- Michael Paul Rogin, Andrew Jackson and the subjugation of
the American Indian
The Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Michael Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s
- James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
- Bruce Catton, The Penguin Book of the American Civil War
- D. T. Carter, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self
Reconstruction in the South
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution
Populism and Progressivism.
- John Bodnar, The Transplanted
- J.M. Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest
- A.S. Link and R.L. McCormick, Progressivism
- Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920
- Louis Filler, Appointment at Armageddon: muckraking and progressivism
in the American Tradition
- David A. Shannon (ed.), Progressivism and post-war disillusionment
1898-1928
- Arthur Erkirch, Progressivism in America: a study of the
era from Theodore Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson
- Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism: a reinterpretation
of American history 1900-1916
- Steven J. Diner, A very different age: Americans of the progressive
era
America between the World Wars.
- Anthony Badger, The New Deal
- Rachel Goosen, Women Against the Good War
- E.W. Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order:
A History of the American people and their Institutions, 1917-1933
- William Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
- William Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal,
1932-1940
- Sidney Milkis, The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism
- A.U. Romasco, The Politics of Recovery: Roosevelt's New Deal
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order,
1919-1933
- Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the
New Deal Era
- Michael E. Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in prosperity
and depression, 1920-1941
- David J. Goldberg, Discontented America: the United States
in the 1920s
- George Soule, Prosperity Decade: from war to depression 1917-1929
- John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929
- Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America 1929-1941
- Frederick Allen Lewis, Only yesterday: an informal history
of the nineteen-twenties
America after World War II.
- P. Collier and D. Horowitz, Destructive Generation: Second
Thoughts about the Sixties
- S. Fraser and G. Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal
Order, 1930-1980
- A. Hamby, Liberalism and its Challengers: FDR to Reagan
- Andrew Jamison, Seeds of the Sixties
- J. Matusow, The Unravelling of America: A History of Liberalism
in the 1960s
- D. McKay, Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the
American State, 1964-1987
- M. Wattenberg, The Decline of American Political Parties,
1952-1980
- Irwin Unger, The Movement: A History of the American New
Left, 1959-1972
- Sidney M. Malkis, The President and the parties: the transformation
of the American party system since the New Deal
- William Goodman, The two party system in the United States
America as a World Power.
- R. Dallek, The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural
Politics and Foreign Affairs
- W. Lafeber, The American Age: United States Foreign Policy
at Home and Abroad
- R. Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States at Vietnam,
1941-1975
- R. Tucker, The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy
- D. White, The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the
United States as a World Power
- Raymond Leonard Garthoff, The great transition: American-Soviet
relations and the end of the Cold War
- Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996
- Michael R. Beschloss, At the highest levels: the inside story
of the end of the Cold War
- Michael L. Dockrill and Michael F. Hopkins, The Cold War,
1945-1991
- Michael J. Hogan (ed.), The end of the Cold War: its meaning
and implications
- Richard K. Hermann and Richard Ned Lebow, Ending the Cold
War
- Richard Ned Lebow, and Janice Gross Stein, We all lost the
Cold War
Race and Civil Rights.
- Cornel West, Race Matters
- Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
- David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making
of the American Working Class
- James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro: The Rape Case That
Shocked 1930s America and Revived the Struggle for Equality
- Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality
- David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Howell Raines, My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep
South Remembered
- Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board
of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
- Fred Powledge, Free at Last? The Civil Rights Movement and
the People Who Made It
- James H. Cone, Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream
or a Nightmare
- Mario Garcia, A History of Mexican Americans: 1930-1960
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians,
Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation
and Internment of Civilians
- Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the
New Deal Era
- Clarice Campbell, Civil Rights Chronicle
Women and Gender in Modern America.
- Linda Kerber, ed., Woman's America: Refocusing the Past
(4th edition)
- Nancy Woloch, Women and the American Experience
- Miriam Frank, et. al., The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter:
The Story of Three Million Working Women During World War II
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
- Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America,
1967-1975
- Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Woman's Liberation
in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
- George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and
the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
- Martin Duberman, Stonewall
- Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History
of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America
- Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis, Boots of Leather,
Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
- Nancy F. Cott (ed.), No small courage: a history of women
in the United States
- William H. Chafe, The American Woman: her changing social,
economic and political roles, 1920-1970
- Sara M. Evans, Born for liberty: a history of women in America
- Flora Davis, Moving the Mountain: the women's movement since
1960
- Rochelle Gatlin, American Women since 1945
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