American History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

   Edited by Randall Parker, Robert Whaples

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Political Economy of Disaster

   Destitution, Plunder and Earthquake in Haiti

   By Mats Lundahl

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince. More than a year later, little reconstruction has taken place, in spite of a strong international...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History

   Edited by Robert Whaples, Randall Parker

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History aims to introduce readers to important approaches and findings of economic historians who study the modern world. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date research and are written by well-known economic historians who are authorities on their...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement

   By Randolph Hohle

   Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

   This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial equality, and prompted a white response to the civil rights movement that set...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. African American Slavery and Disability

   Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

   By Dea Boster

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Caribbean History Reader

   Edited by Nicola Foote

   Series: Routledge Readers in History

   The Caribbean is a region that has been at the heart of world history and global development for centuries. Despite its small geographic size, it is the lynchpin of the Atlantic economy. Further, through a series of migrations, Caribbean people are represented in most of the major cities of...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord

   Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655

   By Timothy L. Wood

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This book explores the authorities of Puritan Massachusetts balanced concern for the stability of the colony and the integrity of its Puritan mission with the hopes of reconciling dissidents back into the colonial community....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. North American Borderlands

   Edited by Brian DeLay

   Series: Rewriting Histories

   Since the early colonial period, historians have been fascinated with North America’s borderlands – places where people interacted across multiple, independent political and legal systems. Today the scholarship on these regions is more robust and innovative than ever before. North American...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World

    Edited by Paula S. Fass

    Series: Routledge Histories

    The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge