Difference between revisions of "19th Century Overview of United States History Top Ten Booklist"
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#Politics of the Early Republic: Sean Wilentz, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393329216/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393329216&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=JRD5IXV4RUTYNVCZ The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln]'' (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2005) | #Politics of the Early Republic: Sean Wilentz, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393329216/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393329216&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=JRD5IXV4RUTYNVCZ The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln]'' (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2005) | ||
#Westward Expansion/Environmental History: William Cronon, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393308731/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393308731&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=MJTG3RZWMYQEJZIH Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West]'' (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991) | #Westward Expansion/Environmental History: William Cronon, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393308731/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393308731&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=MJTG3RZWMYQEJZIH Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West]'' (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991) | ||
| − | #Slavery: Stephanie M. H. Camp, ''[http://www. | + | #Slavery: Stephanie M. H. Camp, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807855340/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807855340&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=QBI24FQIUUXDQSQS Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South]'' (UNC Press, 2004) |
| − | #Pre-Civil War: David M. Potter, ''[http://www. | + | #Pre-Civil War: David M. Potter, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061319295/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061319295&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4VGRPI4FNTGDOTPY The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861]'' (Harper Perennial, 1977) |
| − | #American West: Elliot West, ''[http://www. | + | #American West: Elliot West, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700610294/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700610294&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=3FWYMBDIIAWSQ3PL The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado]'' (University of Kansas Press, 1998) |
| − | #Civil War: James M. McPherson, ''[http://www. | + | #Civil War: James M. McPherson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019516895X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=019516895X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=N3OASD3EVC2NT2IF Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era]'' (Oxford University Press, 2003) |
| − | #Reconstruction: Eric Foner, ''[http://www. | + | #Reconstruction: Eric Foner, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060937165/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060937165&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=36JBX52BBS5QPNME Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877]'' (Harper, 1989) |
| − | #Gilded Age: Robert H. Wiebe, ''[http://www. | + | #Gilded Age: Robert H. Wiebe, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809001047/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809001047&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=62ZYVN6XHV3K2YOC The Search for Order, 1877-1920]'' (Hill and Wang, 1966) |
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Revision as of 05:14, 15 March 2016
These books each cover a specific aspect or period of the 19th Century. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, but it is designed to give you an overview of the entire century. Each of these books has an extremely wide scope and broad ambitions. They are also fairly conventional choices. When you fill a booklist with conventional safe picks, you leave off some of the good stuff. Trust us, we will get to the good stuff.
Still, if you read each of these books you will gain a solid initial grasp of 19th Century America. Are there unforgivable omissions? Yes, there are ridiculously important books that have been left off the list, but you have to start somewhere. If you disagree with this list, please change it.
- Early Republic: Joyce Oldham Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2000)
- Jacksonian America: Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (Oxford University Press, 1991)
- Politics of the Early Republic: Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2005)
- Westward Expansion/Environmental History: William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991)
- Slavery: Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (UNC Press, 2004)
- Pre-Civil War: David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (Harper Perennial, 1977)
- American West: Elliot West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (University of Kansas Press, 1998)
- Civil War: James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, 2003)
- Reconstruction: Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper, 1989)
- Gilded Age: Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (Hill and Wang, 1966)