Reading List for Field Two: Early American History & Urban Development
With David Quigley
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Pre-Colonial and Colonial
Daniels, Christine and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries
in the Americas, 1500-1820. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene, “Peripheries, Centers, and the Construction of
Early Modern American Empires: An Introduction”
• Elizabeth Mancke, “Negotiating and Empire: Britain and Its Overseas Peripheries, c. 15501780”
Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. New York: Viking, 2001.
Guttiérez, Ramón. When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and
Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes
Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Lange: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New
York: Knopf, 1998.
Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut,
1693-1789. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Breen, T.H., Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters of the Eve of
Revolution. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Nash, Gary. Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American
Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.
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Slavery
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage
Books, 1976.
Litwack, Leon. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1961.
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Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: “Race” and Gradual Emancipation in New England,
1780-1860. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Revolution
Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and Their World. New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.
Breen, T.H. Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American
Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Nash, Gary B. The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the
Struggle to Create America. New York: Viking, 2005.
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Creation of the Republic
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of American Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York:
Knopf by Random House, 1997.
Wood, Gordon. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1998.
Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
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19th century Cultural History
Sandage, Scott. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 2005.
Cook, James W. The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age
of Emerson and Melville. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Greenberg, Amy. Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. Cambridge,
England: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Henkin, David. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in NineteenthCentury America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Lears, Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American
Culture, 1880-1920. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.
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Labor
Rosenzweig, Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City,
1870-1920. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2000.
Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Knopf,
1986.
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Abolition
Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings and the Politics of the
1850s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the
Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. (original: 1970)
Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002.
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The Civil War
Foner, Eric. Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1980.
Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth
Amendment. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the
Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007
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Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance in American Society and
Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Reconstruction
Montgomery, David. Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872. New
York: Knopf, 1967
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper
and Row, 1988.
Foner, Eric. “Class, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Gilded Age: The Land League and Irish
America,” in Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. New York, 1980.
Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American
Democracy. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the PostCivil War North, 1865-1901. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Richardson, Heather Cox. West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil
War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Edwards, Laura. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
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Gilded Age
Butler, Leslie. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Sproat, John G. The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1968.
McGerr, Michael. The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Beyond National Boundaries
Bender, Thomas. Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History. New York: Hill and
Wang, 2006.
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Urban America
Bender, Thomas. The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea. New York: New
Press, 2002.
Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in
Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male
World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage Books,
1990.
von Hoffman, Alexander. House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America’s Urban
Neighborhoods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Kruse, Kevin M. and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds. The New Suburban History. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2006.
Lerner, Michael A. Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 2007.
Ryan, Mary P. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the United States During the
Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Yuhl, Stephanie E. A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
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Chicago
Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Baldwin, Davarian. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban
Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Boehm, Lisa. Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968. New York:
Routledge, 2004
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1990
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton,
1992
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David, Henry. The History of the Haymarket Affair: A Study in the American SocialRevolutionary and Labor Movements. New York: Russell and Russell, 1958.
Einhorn, Robin. Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1991.
Flanagan, Maureen. Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City,
1871-1933. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the
Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Anchor Books, 2006.
Schneirov, Richard. Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern
Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Schneirov, Richard, ed. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and
Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
™ Janice L. Reiff, “A Modern Lear and His Daughters: Gender in the Model Town of
Pullman”
™ Melvyn Dubofsky, “The Federal Judiciary, Free Labor, and Equal Rights”
™ Richard Schneirov, “Labor and the New Liberalism in the Wake of the Pullman Strike”
Sawislak, Karen. Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Smith, Carl. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket
Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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Comparative Urban Development
Davis, Diane E. Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1994.
Vale, Lawrence and Thomas Campanella, eds. The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover
from Disaster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Ladd, Brian. The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape.
Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1997.
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