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American
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Barnard College, Columbia
University
AMS 3002y, Bibliography for Early American Culture
I. A Selection of Primary American Texts [1620s to 1850s]
Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646. [1630s-40s]
Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de, Letters From An American Farmer [1782]
Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Fredeick Douglass, American Slave [ 1845]
Edwards, Jonathan, Sermons [1740s]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essays [1830s-40s]
Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography and Other Writings [1789]
Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist Papers [1788]
Jefferson, Thomas , Notes on the State of Virginia [1782]
Jackson, Andrew, Presidential Addresses [1830s]
Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark, The Journals of Lewis and Clark [1804-06]
Melville, Herman, Moby Dick [1851]
Smith, John, The General History of Virginia, New England, the Summer Isles [1620s]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin [1852]
Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America [1836]
Thoreau, Henry David, Walden Pond [1854]
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass [1855]
A Selection of American Studies Interpretive "Classics" [ pre-1967]
Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Knopf, 1965
Beard, Charles A., An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913)
Boorstin, Daniel, The Americans. 3 Volumes [1958-65]
Brooks, Van Wyck, The Flowering of New England [1936]
Cash, Wilbur, The Mind of the South [1940]
Commager, Henry Steele, The American Mind [1950]
Elkins, Stanley, Slavery: A Problem in American Intellectual and Institutional Life [1959]
Hartz, Louis, The Liberal Tradition in America [ 1955]
Hofstadter, Richard, Anti-Intellectualism in America Life [1963]
Marx, Leo, The Machine and the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America [1964]
Mattheissen, F.O., American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman [1940]
Miller, Perry, The New England Mind . 2 volumes [1939-49]
Parrington, Vernon L., Main Currents in American Thought 3 volumes [1927-30]
Potter, David, People of Plenty [1954]
Rourke, Constance, American Humor: A Study in National Character [1930]
Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth [1950]
Turner, Frederick Jackson, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" [1893]
Ward, John William, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age [1953]
Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic Gore; Literature of the Civil War [1963]
Notable Recent Work in Early American Cultural History/American Studies
Bercovitch, Sacvan, The American Jeremiad. UWisconsin, 1979
Bushman, Richard, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. Knopf, 1992
Butler, Jon, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Harvard, 1990
Capper, Charles, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol I Oxford, 1992
Creighton, Margaret S. and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and
Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. JHopkins, 1996
Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New
England. Hill & Wang, 1983
Deetz, James, In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early America. 1977
Deetz, James, Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864. UVirginia, 1993
Delbanco, Andrew, Puritan Ordeal. HarvardUP, 1990
Fischer, David Hackett, U Albion’s Seed: Four English
Folkways in the Forming of
American Culture 1991
Fogel, Robert W. and Stanley Engerman, Time On The Cross:
The Economics of
American Negro Slavery. 1974
Genovese, Eugene, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaveholders Made. 1974
Glassie, Henry, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts. UTennessee, 1975
Greenberg, Kenneth, Honor & Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses…. PrincetonUP, 1996
Innes, Stephen, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic
Culture of Puritan New
England. Norton, 1996
Isaac, Rhys, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. UNorth Carolina, 1982.
Kasson, John F., Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900. 1976
Kolodny, Annette, The Land Before Her: Fantasy and
Experience of the American
Frontiers. UNorth Carolina, 1984
Kulikoff, Alan, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of
Southern Cultures in the
Chesapeake UNorth Carolina, 1986
McCaw, Judith, ed., Early American Technology: Making and
Doing Things From the
Colonial Era to1850. UNorth Carolina, 1994
McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of
British America, 1607-1789
North Carolina, 1985
Meinig, D.W., The Shaping of America, I: Atlantic America, 1492-1800 . Yale, 1987
Morgan, Edmund S., American Slavery American Freedom: The
Ordeal of Colonial
Virginia. Norton, 1975
Novak, Barbara, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and
Painting, 1825-1875
Oxford, 1979
Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:
Merchant Seamen, Pirates,
and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge
UP, 1987
Rutman, Darrett and Anita Rutman, A Place in Time:
Middlesex, Virginia, 1650-
1750. 1984
Reynolds, David S., Walt Whitman’s America. Vintage, 1995
Seelye, John, Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American
Life and Literature.
Oxford, 1977
Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration Through Violence: The
Mythology of the American
Frontier, 1600-1860 Wesleyan, 1973
Stansell, Christine, City of Women:Sex and Class in New York. Knopf, 1986
Tate, Thad W. and David L. Ammerman, eds., The Chesapeake
in the Seventeenth
Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society . UNorth Carolina,
1979
Vickers, Daniel, Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of
Work in Essex County,
Massachusetts 1630-1850. UNorth Carolina, 1994
Wilentz, Sean, Chants Democratic;
Wood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Knopf, 1994