Nineteenth-Century America

BOOK REVIEWS

All graduate and post-baccalaureate students will write reviews on four scholarly monographs, a minimum of one book from each section below.  The books on the following list are considered scholarly The instructor may approve other scholarly books.  All books must be approved by the instructor.  Bring books for approval to the instructor's office during office hours, or make an appointment with the instructor.  To be acceptable, the text of a book must be at least 180 pages (not counting appendices, bibliography, index, or any other supplementary materials).

Each book review will consist of 1200-1500 words (approximately five, typed, double-spaced pages).  Reports will contain a statement of the book's thesis (check book reviews if you are not sure), a summary of the author's argument, a statement of why the book is important, the assessment of reviewers, and the student's own evaluation of the work.  The student will cite at least two scholarly book reviews that he/she has consulted.  Check Reviews in American History for books published after 1972.  Otherwise, check America: History and Life on the Meyer Library web page (under Articles and Databases) to find other suitable reviews.  Reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of American History, and the major regional and state journals are preferred. 

Book Review Example

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BOOK LIST

Section 1 - Pre-Civil War

Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution       (The original work on American Republicanism)
Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840
John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850
Irving H. Bartlett, John C. Calhoun: A Biography
Steven C. Bullock, Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry...1730-1840
Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
Richard A. Bartlett, The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier
Malcolm J. Rohrbough, The Trans-Appalachian Frontier
John Mack Garagher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail
John D. Unruh, The Plains Across
Wm. H. Bowen, The Willamette Valley: Migration and Settlement on the Oregon Frontier
Michael J. O'Brien, et al, Grassland, Forests and Historical Settlement: An Analysis of Dynamics in Northeast Missouri
Percy W. Bidwell and John I. Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern U.S., 1620-1860
Paul W. Gates, The Farmer's Age: Agriculture, 1815-1860
Lewis C. Gray, History of Agriculture in the Southern U.S., to 1860
Stuart Bruchey, The Roots of American Economic Growth of the U.S., 1790-1860
Douglass North, The Economic Growth of the U.S., 1790-1860
Peter Temin, The Jacksonian Economy
Diane Lindstrum, Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810-1850
George R. Taylor, The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860
Carter Goodrich, Government Promotion of Canals and Railroads
Thomas C. Cochran, Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialization in America
Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism
Oscar Handlin, Boston's Immigrants
Robert Ernst, Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863
Kathleen Conzen, Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860
Charlotte Erickson, Invisible Immigrants: The Adaption of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America
Paul G. Faler, Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Mass., 1780-1860
Jonathan Prude, The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Mass., 1810-1860
Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn
Bruce Lurie, Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850
_____
. Artisans to Laborers
Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Mass., 1826-1860
Susan Hirsh, Roots of the American Working Class: Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860
Norman Ware, The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860
Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale
Richard C. Wade, The Urban Frontier
Allan R Pred, Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information
Stuart M. Blumin, The Urban Threshold
David Hamer, New Towns in the New World:...Nineteenth century Urban Frontier
F. Thornton Miller, Juries and Judges Versus the Law: Virginia's Provincial Legal Perspective, 1783-1828
Robert W. Fogel & Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Cotton South
Harold Woodman, King Cotton and His Retainers
Fred Bateman & Thomas Weiss, A Deplorable Scarcity
Robert G. Starobin, Industrial Slavery in the Old South
Ulrich B. Phillips, Life and Labor in the Old South
Stanley Elkins, Slavery
John W. Blassingame, The Slave Community
Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll
_____, The World the Slaveholders Made
Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South
Merton L. Dillon, Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and their Allies, 1619-1865
Frank Owsley, Plain Folk of the Old South
Lee Soltow, Men and Wealth in the U.S., 1850-1870
Edward Pessen, Riches, Class and Power Before the Civil War
Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., The White Man's Indian
Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-Building
Roy H. Pearce, The Savages of America
Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence
Roderick Nash, Wilderness in the American Mind
Francis Paul Prucha, The Great Father: The U.S. Government and the American Indian (Vol. 1)
Herman J. Viola, Thomas L. McKenney, Architect of America's Early Indian Policy, 1816-1830
Ronald H. Satz, American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era
Robert A. Trennert, Jr., Alternative to Extinction: Federal Indian Policy and . . . the Reservation System, 1846-1851
_____, Indian Traders in the Middle Border
Cecil Eby, "That Disgraceful Affair," the Black Hawk War
Michael Paul Rogin, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian
Charles Hudson, The Removal of the Southeastern Indians
Arthur D. De Rosier, Jr., The Removal of the Choctaw Indians
Ira Berlin, Slaves Without Masters: The Free negro in the Antebellum South
Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery
Leonard P. Curry, The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850
William A. Murachkin, Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society: Prince Hall Freemasonry in America
George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind
Reginald Horseman, Race and Manifest Destiny
Ronald T. Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Robert C. Toll, Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America
William Stanton, The Leopard's Spots: Scientific Attitudes Toward Race in America, 1815-1859
P.J. Stauderaus, The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865
Leonard I. Sweet, Black Images of America, 1784-1870
Floyd J. Miller, The Search for a Black Nationality
Catherine Clinton, The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth-Century
Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters
Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: 'Woman's Sphere' in New England, 1870-1815
Sylvia Hoffert, Private Matters
Keith M. Medler, Beginnings of Sisterhood: The American Woman's Rights Movement: 1800-1850
Barbara J. Berg, The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism--The Woman and the City, 1800-1860
Ellen C. DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Woman's Movement in America, 1848-1869
Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity
Barbara Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America
Blanche G. Hersh, The Slavery of Sex: Feminist Abolitionists in America
Nancy A. Hewitt, Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872
Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the 19th-Century United States
Julie Roy Jeffrey, Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880
Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America: 1820-1920
Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painter Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870
Michael B. Katz, et al,, The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
Peter R. Knights, The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860
Peter Gay, Education of the Senses: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud (Vol 1)
Stephen Nissenbaum, Sex, Diet, and debility in Jacksonian America
Bernard Wishy, The Child and the Republic
Charles A. Johnson, The Frontier Camp Meeting
William G. Mc Loughlin, The Meaning of Henry Ward Beecher
Ian R. Tyrell, Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America
Jed Dannenbaum, Drink and Disorder: Temperance Reform in Cincinnati from the Washington Revival to the WCTU
William J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic
Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
Michael Katz, The Irony of Early School Reform
Stanley K. Schultz, The Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1789-1860
Lee Soltow, & Edward Stevens, The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the U.S.
Carl F. Kastle, The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1750-1850
_____ & Maris A. Vinovskis, Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
David S. Rothman, Discovery of the Asylum
Gerald N. Grob, Mental Institutions in America
W. David Lewis, From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (Abridged: Honor and Violence in the Old South)
Dickson D. Bruce, Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South
Edward L. Ayers, Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the 19th-Century South
Robert H. Wiebe, The Opening of American Society
Richard Hofstadter, The Idea of a Party System
Drew McCoy, The Elusive Republic
George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings
_____, The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828
Murray N. Rothbard, The Panic of 1919
Glover Moore, The Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821
Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage: From Property to Democracy
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr, The Age of Jackson
Donald Cole, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
Lee Benson, The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case
Richard P. McCormick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era
Ronald P. Formisano, The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Politics, 1780s-1840s
_____, The Birth of Mass Political Parties: Michigan, 1827-1861
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway (eds), The Market Revolution: Social, Political, and Religious Experiences, 1800-1880
Joel H. Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
Amy Bridges, A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics
John William Ward, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age
Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Beliefs
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire
James C. Curtis, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication
Richard B. Latner, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
Robert V. Remini, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party
Donald B. Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System
Bray Hammond, Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Bank War
John M. McFall, The Politics of Jacksonian Finance
Harry L Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America
William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War
Samuel F. Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Union
George R. Poage, Henry Clay and the Whig Party
Glyndon Van Deusen, William Henry Seward
Daniel W. Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs
William Preston Vaughn, The Antimasonic Party in the U.S., 1826-1843
Robert Kelley, The Cultural Pattern in American Politics: The First Century
Joel Sibley, The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics Before the Civil War
John Ashworth, 'Agrarians' and Aristocrats: Party Political Ideology in the U.S., 1837-1846
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land
 

Section 2 - Civil War and Reconstruction Era

William G. Piston, Wilson's Creek
Carol Reardon, Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
Clarence H. Danhof, Change of Agriculture in the Northern U.S., 1820-1870
Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West
LeeAnn Whites, The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890
Steven V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865
Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Policy Toward Southern Civiliams, 1861-1865
George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics
Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South
David Greenstone, The Linicoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism
Hans Trefousse, Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian
Joel Silbey, The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852
Clement Eaton, Henry Clay and the Art of American Politics
Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., Daniel Webster and the Trial of American Nationalism, 1843-1852
Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America
Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History
_____, The Monroe Doctrine and American Expansionism
_____, Slavery and the Annexation of Texas
Charles G. Sellers, James K. Polk: Continentalist, 1843-1849
Frederick J. Blue, The Free Soilers: Third Party Politics, 1848-1854
Ronald G. Waters,  The Antislavery Appeal
Lewis Perry, Radical Abolitionism: Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought
John L. Thomas, The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison
Aileen S. Kraditor, Means and Ends in American Abolitionism
Robert H. Abzug, Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform
Leonard l. Richards, "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America
Clement Eaton, The Freedom of Thought Struggle in the Old South
Benjamin Quarles, Black Abolitionists
Wm. S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass
Russel B. Nye, Fettered Freedom: Civil Liberties and the Slavery Controversy
Thomas O. Morris, Free men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1861
Eugene Berwanger, The Frontier Against Slavery
Betty Fladeland, James Gillespie Birney: Slaverholder to Abolitionist
David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
Michael F. Holt, The Crisis of the 1850s
Robert W. Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas
W.D. Overdyke, The Know-Nothing Party in the South
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Hans Trefousse, The Radical Republicans
Michael F. Holt, Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh
Stephen Maizlish, The Triumph of Sectionalism: The Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844-1856
Dale Baum, The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1849-1876
G.S. Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream
Jean H. Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Don H. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case
Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857
James A. Rawley, Race and Politics: "Bleeding Kansas" and the Coming of the Civil War
David Brion Davis, The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style
Stephen B. Oates, To Purge the Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
Eugene Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery
J. Mills Thornton, III, Politics and Power in a Slave Society
James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
_____. Slavery and Freedom: An interpretation of the Old South
Anne Firor Scott, The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930
Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress
Stephen A. Channing, Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina
William L. Barney, The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860
Ralph A. Wooster, The Secession Conventions of the South
Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, How the North Won
Thomas L. Connelly and Archer Jones, The Politics of Command
Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamison, Attack and Die
Michael C.C. Adams, Our Masters the Rebels
T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals
Wiley Sword, Shiloh: Bloody April
Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb
_____, The Life of Billy Yank
Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
Richard N. Current, The Lincoln Nobody Knows
John Hope Franklin, The Emancipation Proclamation
Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
James McPherson, The Struggle for Equality
La Wanda Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom
James H. Brewer, The Confederate Negro: Virginia's Craftsmen and Negro Laborers, 1861-1865
Robert F. Durden, The Gray and the Black
Mary E. Massey, Refugee Life in the Confederacy
Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. Beringer, The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress
Archer Jones, et al., Why the South Lost the Civil War
Emory Thomas, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience
Richard Franklin Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
George M. Fredrickson, The Inner Civil War
James A. Rawley, The Politics of Union
David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered
Benjamin Thomas, Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None
Mark E. Neely, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America
Joel Silbey, A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War
Adrian Crook, The Armies in the Streets
W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction
John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction after the Civil War
Kenneth Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction
Eric Foner, Reconstruction
Eric L. McKitrick, Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
James Sefton, Andrew Johnson and the Uses of Constitutional Power
Albert Cassel, The Presidency of Andrew Johnson
John H. & Lawanda C. Cox, Politics, Principle and Prejudice
Wm. B. Hessseltine, Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction
Herman Belz, Reconstructing the Union
Peyton McCrary, Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction
Wm. R. Brock, An American Crisis
Michael Perman, Reunion Without Compromise
Dan T. Carter, When the War Was Over
Michael Les Benedict, A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction
Joseph B. James, The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment
William Gillette, The Right to Vote: Politics and Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
_____, Retreat from Reconstruction
James M. McPherson, The Abolitionist Legacy
Ronald E. Butchart, Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction
Jacqueline Jones, Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks
Robert C. Morris, Reading, 'Riting, and Reconstruction
Edward Magdol, A Right to Land
Claude F. Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule
Peter Kolchin, First Freedom:  The Response of Alabama Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction
Ronald L.F. Davis, Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District
Michael Wayne, The Reshaping of Plantation Society
Vernon Lane Wharton, The Negro In Mississippi
Joel Williamson, After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction
Thomas Holt, Black Over White: Negro Political leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction
George R. Bentley, A History of the Freedmen's Bureau
Wm. S. McFeely, Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen
Wm. C. Harris, The Day of the Carpetbagger (Mississippi)
Mark W. Summers, Railroads, Reconstruction and the Gospel of Prosperity
Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption
Brooks D. Simpson, Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868
Wm. S. McFeely, Ulysses S. Grant
Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, The Scalawag in Alabama Politics
Gordon B. McKinney, Southern Mountain Republicans
Earl M. Maltz, Civil Rights, the Constitutionn, and Congress, 1863-1869
Michael Kent Curtis, No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights
Allen W. Trelease, White Terror
George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction
David Montgomery, Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans
Willaim C. Davis, The Last Days of the Confederate Government

Section 3 - Post-Civil War and Reconstruction Era

Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Plains
J.B. Jackson, American Space: The Centennial Years, 1864-1876
Gene M. Gressley, West by East
Robert G. Ahearn, Union Pacific Country
David M. Emmonds, Gardens in the Grasslands
Robert J. Dykstra, The Cattle Towns
Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography
Julie Roy Jeffrey, Frontier Women
Glenda Riley, Frontierswomen
Joanna L. Strathon, Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
H. Craig Miner, The Corporation and the Indian
R.L. Ransom & Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Reconstruction 
Stephen J. DeCanio, Agriculture in the Postbellum South
Roger J. Shugg, Origins of the Class Struggle in Louisiana
Jonathan M. Winer, Social Origins of the New South (Alabama)
Paul M. Gaston, The New South Creed
David Carlton, Mill and Town in South Carolina
Allan G. Bogue, From Prairie to Corn Belt
Judy Hilkey, Character is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood . . .
David Brundage, The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver . . .
Joel H. Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
Rebecca Edwards, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics . . .
Suzanne Marilley, Women Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the US, 1820-1920
Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbackers: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896
William J. Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth Century America
Matthew J. Mancini, One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
Ari Hoogenboom, Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior aand President
Beverly Duncan & Stanley Lieberson, Metropolis and Region in Transition
David Ward, Cities and Immigrants
Oliver Zunz, The Changing Face of Inequality
_____, Making America Corporate
Philip Taylor, The Distant Magnet (Immigrants)
Walter Nugent, Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1917
Alan M. Kraut, The Huddled Masses
Leonard Dinnerstein & David Reimers, Ethnic Americans
John B. Duff, The Irish in the U.S.
Humbert Nelli, The Italians of Chicago
Irving Howe, The World of Our Fathers (Jews)
Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America
Edward C. Kirkland, Industry Comes of Age
Glen Porter, The Rise of Big Business
Phillip S. Bagwell and G.E. Mingay, Britain and America: A Study of Economic Change, 1850-1939
Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital
Daniel T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America
James B. Gilbert, Work without Salvation
Daniel Nelson, Managers and Workers
David Montgomery, Workers' Control in America
Daniel Nelson, Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management
Oscar and Mary F. Handlin, Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the Nineteenth Century U.S.
Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
Thomas B. Dicke, Franchising in America: The Development of a Business Method, 1840-1980
Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order
T.J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington
Margaret Gibbons Wilson, The American Woman in Transition
Robert L. Griswold, Family and Divorce in California, 1850-1890
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women...
Aileen Kraditor, The Ideas of the Womans Suffrage Movement
Barton J. Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism
Richard Sennett, Families against the City
Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism
Mary O. Furner, Advocacy and Objectivity (Higher Education)
Allen F. Davis, Spearheads for Reform (Settlement Houses)
Peter R. Shergold, Working-Class Life
John Bodnar, Immigrants and Industrialization
H. Wayne Morgan, From Hayes to McKinley
Robert Kelley, The Transatlantic Persuasion: The Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone
Robert D. Marcus, Grand Old Party
Leonard D. White, The Republican Era, 1869-1901
Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptised in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause
C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
Stephen Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism
Paul Kleppner, The Cross of Culture
_____, The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892
Stanley P. Hirshon, Farewell to the Bloody Shirt
Robert P. Sharkey, Money, Class and Party
Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era
Alen Weinstein, Prelude to Populism (Silver Issue)
John G. Sproat, The Best Men (Mugwumps)
Richard J. Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest
David J. Pivar, Purity Crusade
John Higham, Strangers in the Land
Chester McArthur Destler, American Radicalism, 1865-1901
Theodore Saloutos, Farmer Movements in the South, 1965-1933
John L. Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition
Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: NYC and the Patterning of Class in the US
Melvin Dubofsky, Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865-1920
Irwin Yellowitz, Industrialization and the American labor Movement, 1850-1900
Leon Fink, Workingman's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
Melton McLaurin, The Knights of Labor in the South
Robert V. Bruce, 1877: Year of Violence
Philip S Foner, The Great Labor Uprising of 1877
David T. Burbank, Reign of the Rabble: The St. Louis General Strike of 1877
Sidney L. Harring, Policing a Class Society
Gerald Rosenblaum, Immigrant Workers: Their Impact on American Labor Radicalism
Harold W. Aurand, From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers
Stephen Thermstrom, Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City
Henry David, The History of the Haymarket Affair
Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy
Gerald N. Grob, Workers and Utopia
Alexander B Callow, Jr., From Hayes to McKinley
R. Hal Williams, Years of Decision
Reindigs Fels, American Business Cycles, 1865-1917
Charles Hoffman, The Depression of the Nineties
Douglas C. North, Growth and Welfare in the American Past
Robert L. Heilbroner, The Economic Transformation of America
Robert H. Bremner, From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in America
James A. Ward, Railroads and the Character of America
Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands and Mountaineers
Gilbert Fite, Cotton Fields No More
J. Rogers Hollingsworth, The Whirligig of Politics
Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs
Michael Schwartz, Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy
Bruce Palmer, Man Over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism
Matthew Hild, Greenbackers, Union Laborites, and Populists
O. Gene Clanton, Kansas Populism
_____, Populism: The Humane Preference
Jeffrey Ostler, Prairie Populism (Iowa, Kansas, & Nebraska)
Peter H. Argersinger, Populism and Politics: William A. Peffer...
James E. Wright, The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado
Robert W. Cherny, Populism, Progressivism and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1915
Norman Pollack, The Populist Response to Industrial America
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise                                              (Abridged: The Populist Moment)
Worth Robert Miller, Oklahoma Populism
Charles Postel, The Populist Vision
George H. Miller, Railroads and Granger Laws
Gregg Cantrell, Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent
Chester McArthur Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Empire of Reform
Paolo E. Coletta, William Jennings Bryan: Political Evangelist, 1860-1908
Louis Koenig, Bryan
H. Wayne Morgan, William McKinley and His America
C. Vann Woodward, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South
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