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## *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.