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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 12: Responses to the Great Transformation, 1828-1840
Richard J. Carwardine. Evangelicals and
Politics in Antebellum America (1993).
A study of the increasing role played by evangelicals
in antebellum politics.
Ellen Eslinger. Citizens of Zion: The Social
Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism (1999).
A relatively recent reassessment of the rise
of revivalism in response to the tense environment that emerged as Americans
haltingly embraced modernism.
Eugene D. Genovese. From Rebellion to Revolution:
Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (1979).
Although it focuses somewhat narrowly on confrontations,
as opposed to more subtle forms of resistance, this study traces the emergence
of African American political organization from its roots in antebellum slave
revolts.
Karen Haltunen. Confidence Men and Painted
Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (1982).
A wonderfully well researched study of an emerging
class defining and shaping itself in the evolving world of early-nineteenth-century
urban space.
Michael F. Hold. The Rise and Fall of the
American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (1999).
One of the chief architects of the “New Political
History” examines the Whig Party and its place in the transformation of American
politics during the modernizing process.
Julie Roy Jeffrey. The Great Silent Army
of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998).
This book’s title gives a clear description
of it’s coverage. An interesting study.
Edward Pessen. Most Uncommon Jacksonians:
The Radical Leaders of the Early Labor Movement (1967).
A look at early labor movements and reform
by one of America’s leading radical scholars.
Anthony F. C. Wallace. Rockdale: The Growth
of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (1978).
A noted anthropologist’s reconstruction of
a mill town and the various class, occupational, and gender cultures that developed
there in response to the changing economic forces that emerged during a transition
from a traditional village to a mill town.
Ronald G. Walters. American Reformers, 1815-1860
(1978).
The best overview of the reform movements and
key personalities who guided them during this difficult period in American history.
Sean Wilentz. Chants Democratic: New York
City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984).
An insightful view of working-class culture
and politics in the dynamic setting of Erie Canal era New York City.
Laurie A. Wilkie. Creating Freedom: Material
Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840-1950
(2000).
Though it ranges far beyond the antebellum
period, this book explores the tie between material culture and the preservation
of identity among slaves and then freed African Americans.
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