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== Synthesis ==
== Themes ==
*Capitalism
*Republicanism
*Slavery
== Chronology/Key Events ==
*Bacon's Rebellion (1676) - See Edmund Morgan, Alden Vaughan and Kathleen Brown
*Seven Years' War (1754-1763) - See Woody Holton
*Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) - See Ashli White and Douglas Egerton
*Walker vs. Jennison (1783) - See Douglas Egerton (African Americans and the Early Republic/Revolution)
*Louisiana Purchase (1803) - See Ashli White
*U.S. Act Closing the Importation of Slaves (1807)
*War of 1812 - See Charles Sellers
*Financial Crisis of 1819 and the Missouri Comprimise - See Charles Sellers
*The Nullifaction Crisis (1832-1833) - See Charles Sellers and Harry Watson
*"Bank War" (1829-1837) - See Charles Sellers and Harry Watson
*Indian Removal Act (1830) 
*"Watermellon War" (1856) - See Aims McGuiness
*Completion of Transcontinental Railroad -
==Reading List==
=== First Encounters/Conquest/Colonial America (4 Books, 1 Article) ===
 
Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
 
Greene, Jack. Pursuit of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. 
 
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton, 1976.
 
Vaughan, Alden T. “The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 97:3 (July 1989): 311-354.
 
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 – 1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
 
=== The Revolutionary Era/Early Republic (7 Books, 1 Article) ===
 
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
 
Egerton, Douglas R. Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford, 2009.
Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
 
Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic. Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
 
Nash, Gary B. Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution. Abridged edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. 
Rodgers, Daniel. “Republicanism: The Career of a Concept.” Journal of American History 79:1 (June 1992): 11-38.
White, Ashli. Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2012. 
Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.
David Armitage - WMQ Critical Forum
=== The Market Revolution (8 Books, 1 Article) ===
Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s. New York: New York University Press, 1984.
 
Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. New York: Oxford, 1990.
 
Blumin, Stuart M. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760 – 1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
 
Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
 
Henretta, James. “Families and Farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America.” William and Mary Quarterly 35:1 (1978): 3-32.
 
Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
 
Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815 – 1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Watson, Harry. Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990. 
=== Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction (14 books) ===
 
Baptist, Edward. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. Basic Books, 2014. 
 
Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Knopf, 2014.
Bender, Thomas, ed. The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
 
Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860 – 1880. 1935. New York: Free Press, 1935.
Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. 
 
Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863 – 1877. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.
 
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon, 1974.
 
Harris, Leslie. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626 – 1863. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
 
Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
 
Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Belknap, 2013. 
 
Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
 
Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 – 1865. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2013.
 
Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
 
=== Labor (2 Books, 1 Article) ===
 
Gutman, Herbert. “Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Jun. 1973), pp. 531-588. 
 
Laurie, Bruce. Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Illinois Press, 1977. 
Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso, 1991.
=== Encounter, Expansion and Empire: (5 Books) ===
Limerick, Patricia. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. W.W. Norton, 1987.
McGuinness, Aims. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Press, 2009.
Osterhammel, Jurgen. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Richardson, Heather Cox. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. Yale University Press, 2008.