Early American Studies Reading Order

by David Waldstreicher

122 books

Reading Order

1

Hopeful Journeys

1996

2

Parades and the Politics of the Street

1997

3

Messy Beginnings

2003

4

Laboring Women

2004

5

Envisioning an English Empire

2005

6

The Native Ground

2006

7

The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand

2007

8

Religion and Profit

2008

9

Dangerous Economies

2009

10

Friends and Strangers

2010

11

Doomsayers

2010

12

The First Prejudice

2010

13

Unwelcome Americans

2010

14

The Poor Indians

2010

15

An Infinity of Nations

2011

16

The Weaver's Craft

2011

17

One Family Under God

2011

18

Revolutionary Backlash

2011

19

A Town In-Between

2011

20

From Privileges to Rights

2011

21

Town Born

2011

22

The Empire Reformed

2011

23

First Lady of Letters

2011

24

The Catholic Calumet

2011

25

John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom

2012

26

Liberty on the Waterfront

2012

27

Zamumo's Gifts

2012

28

1812

2012

29

Political Gastronomy

2012

30

Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians

2012

31

Imperial Entanglements

2012

32

Peoples of the River Valleys

2013

33

Abraham in Arms

2013

34

The Shame and the Sorrow

2013

35

Embodied History

2013

36

An Age of Infidels

2013

37

Stuyvesant Bound

2013

38

Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn

2013

39

New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty

2013

40

The Way of Improvement Leads Home

2013

41

Beyond the Farm

2013

42

Slavery's Borderland

2013

43

First City

2013

44

Seasons of Misery

2013

45

New World Orders

2013

46

Louisiana

2013

47

Taming Lust

2014

48

Subjects Unto The Same King

2014

49

Robert Love's Warnings

2014

50

Contested Spaces of Early America

2014

51

Domestic Intimacies

2014

52

Lenape Country

2014

53

The Settlers' Empire

2014

54

Professional Indian

2015

55

Capitalism by Gaslight

2015

56

Against Self-Reliance

2015

57

Anglicizing America

2015

58

Empire by Collaboration

2015

59

The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America

2015

60

Rebellion and Savagery

2015

61

Liberty's Prisoners

2015

62

Slavery and the Democratic Conscience

2015

63

An Empire Divided

2015

64

Cast Down

2016

65

Sacred Violence in Early America

2016

66

The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States

2016

67

Dispossessed Lives

2016

68

Republic of Taste

2016

69

Slavery's Capitalism

2016

70

The Threshold of Manifest Destiny

2016

71

Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America

2016

72

Frontier Country

2016

73

The American Revolution Reborn

2016

74

Tea Sets and Tyranny

2016

75

John James Audubon

2017

76

Contested Bodies

2017

77

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean

2017

78

Warner Mifflin

2017

79

Liquid Landscape

2017

80

Poetry Wars

2017

81

Unsettling the West

2017

82

The Medical Imagination

2018

83

Christian Slavery

2018

84

An Unsettled Conquest

2018

85

The Commerce of Vision

2018

86

A Not-So-New World

2018

87

The Disaffected

2019

88

Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy

2019

89

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots

2019

90

Speaking with the Dead in Early America

2019

91

Captives of Liberty

2019

92

Laid Waste!

2019

93

The World That Fear Made

2020

94

Wicked Flesh

2020

95

Revolutions and Reconstructions

2020

96

Occupied America

2020

97

Rogue Revolutionaries

2020

98

The World Colonization Made

2020

99

American Freethinker

2020

100

Colonial Complexions

2021

101

Philadelphia Stories

2021

102

The Creole Archipelago

2021

103

Women Healers

2022

104

Cultivating Empire

2022

105

Faith in Exposure

2022

106

Under the Skin

2022

107

The Great Power of Small Nations

2022

108

Undoing Slavery

2023

109

The Early Imperial Republic

2023

110

Boundaries of Belonging

2023

111

A Constitutional Culture

2023

112

Speculation Nation

2023

113

Black Elders

2024

114

The Driver’s Story

2024

115

The Rising Generation

2024

116

Belonging

2024

117

America Under the Hammer

2024

118

Republic of Indians

2024

119

Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis

2025

120

The Invention of Rum

2025

121

Let the Oppressed Go Free

2025

122

The Centrality of Slavery

2025

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