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American Intro III File:///W:/OFFICE/Website%20Docs/Grad%20Reading%20Lists%20Old% American Intro III file:///W:/OFFICE/Website%20Docs/grad%20reading%20lists%20old%... Problems and Directed Readings II: Nineteenth-Century America Revised by Ann Fabian and Jan Lewis 8/2002. The following reading list is divided into twenty-four sections to parallel the introductory course. The list is meant to work on three levels: a specialist in the 19th century should have a working familiarity with the entire list; someone studying for his/her examination should have read several books from each section; and faculty members teaching the recent American introductory course will generally assign books from this list. The list should not be assumed to represent a comprehensive bibliography of historiography on the Middle Period, and in most cases, supplemental bibliographies will be available when the course is taught. But the list should provide some structure when studying for qualifying examinations. Students should also be familiar with a basic textbook in American history; for example, Jeanne Boydston, et al., Making a Nation or Christopher Clark, et al., Who Built America. 1. The New Nation Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics; In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000). Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (2000). David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1975). Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2000). Richard Hofstadter, The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 (1969). Drew R. McCoy, The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (1989). Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Power, Property and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 (1999). Alan Taylor, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996). David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997). 2. Market Revolution Norma Basch, “Marriage, Morals, and Politics in the Election of 1828,”The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 3. (Dec., 1993), pp. 890-918. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021- Stuart Blumin, "The Hypothesis of Middle Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century America: A Critique and Some Proposals," American Historical Review, 90 (1985), 1 of 13 3/21/2007 11:54 AM American Intro III file:///W:/OFFICE/Website%20Docs/grad%20reading%20lists%20old%... 299-338. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002- 8762%28198504%2990%3A2%3C299%3ATHOMFI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990). Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992). Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1990). Morton Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977). Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeepers' Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (1978). Richard L. McCormick, "The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis," JAH, 66 (1979), 179-298. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021- 8723%28197909%2966%3A2%3C279%3ATPPAPP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M Mary P. Ryan, The Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (1981). Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991). Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990). Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of t he American Working Class, 1 788-1850 (1984). 3. Slavery and the South Judith A. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (2001). William Dusinberre, Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (2000). Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic; An Account of the Unites States Government’s Relations to Slavery (2001). Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988). Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974). Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2001). Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987). James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (1982). James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom, an Interpretation of the Old South (1990).. Nell Painter, "Soul Murder and Slavery: Toward a Fully-Loaded Cost Accounting," in 2 of 13 3/21/2007 11:54 AM American Intro III file:///W:/OFFICE/Website%20Docs/grad%20reading%20lists%20old%... U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, Linda Kerber et al., eds., (Chapel Hill, 1995). Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South (2000) Diane Miller Sommerville, “The Rape Myth in the Old South Reconsidered,” Journal of Southern History, LXI (1995), 481-518. Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996) Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman?’ Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985). 4. Gender, Sexuality, Family Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce; From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians ((1999). Gail Bederman, Manliness & Civilization : a Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (1995). Mary Blewett, Men, Women and Work: A Study of Class, Gender and Protest in the 19th Century Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1998). Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood : "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (1977). Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2001) Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex (1992). Lori Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence : Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-century United States (1990). Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in 19th Century America (1985). Martha Hodes, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (1999). Linda K. Kerber, "Separate Spheres, Female Words, Women's Place,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 75, No. 1. (Jun., 1988), pp. 9-39. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021- 8723%28198806%2975%3A1%3C9%3ASSFWWP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 (1984). Jan Lewis, The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia (1983) Jan Lewis, "Politics and the Ambivalence of the Private Sphere: Women in Early 3 of 13 3/21/2007 11:54 AM American Intro III file:///W:/OFFICE/Website%20Docs/grad%20reading%20lists%20old%... Washington, D.C.," Donald Kennon, A Republic for the Ages (University Press of Virginia, 1999), 122-151 E. Anthony Rotundo, "Romantic Friendship: Male Intimacy and Middle-Class Youth in the Northern United States, 1800-1900," Journal of Social History, 23 (Fall 1989), 1-25 Daniel Scott Smith, "Family Limitation, Sexual Control, and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America," in Mary Hartman and Lois W. Banner, eds., Clio's Consciousness Raised (NY, Harper Torchbooks, 1974), 119-131 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985) Christine Stansell, City of Women; Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1987). Laurel Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (2001). 5. Religion and Reform Robert Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994). Thomas Bender, ed., The Anti-Slavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992)--the 1985 AHR debate between Thomas Haskell and David Brion Davis. Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990). Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002). Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and the British Caribbean to 1830 (1998). Nathan Hatch, Democratization of American Christianity (1989). Nancy Hewitt, Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, NY, 1822-1872 (1984). Christine Heyerman, Southern Cross Donald Mathews, Religion in the Old South (1977) Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue the Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 (1990). Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South (1978). Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom : American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (1999). Nell Irvin Painter, “Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known,” Journal of American History, Sept. 1994, pp. 461-492 4 of 13 3/21/2007 11:54 AM American Intro III file:///W:/OFFICE/Website%20Docs/grad%20reading%20lists%20old%... (<www.jstor.org>, James Turner, Without God, without Creed: the Origins of Unbelief in America (1985). Ronald Walters, The Anti-Slavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830 (1984). 6 Expansion, Removal, and the American West William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991). William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds., Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (1992). Alberto Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California (1999). Susan Johnson, Roaring Camp : the Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000). Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987). William McLoughlin, Cherokee Renaissance in the New Republic (1986). Michael Paul Rogin, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian (1975). Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West (1998). Sylvia Van Kirk, "The Role of Native American Women in the Creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1830," in The Women's West, 53-62. Elliot West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (1998). Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West (1991).
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