 | American Colonies: v. 1: The Settlement of North America to 1800 (Penguin History of the United States) by Alan Taylor
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.82 A superb survey of America during the Colonial period, encompassing regions often overlooked in most accounts.
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 | The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby
Buy new: £16.95 / Used from: £17.63 Crosby advances the compelling argument that the most profound consequence of Columbus's discovery was biological.
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 | Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
Buy used from: £6.28 Details how the way the colonists in New England used the land impacted their environment.
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 | American Slavery-American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan
Buy used from: £5.00 An indispensable explanation for how two contrary concepts developed simultaneously.
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 | Many Thousands Gone: First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by I Berlin
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £5.74 The best overview of slavery during the colonial period.
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 | The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal by JH Merrell
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £8.31 An account of the impact of colonialism on the indigenous population of New Engalnd.
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 | The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Robert Middlekauff
Buy used from: £10.81 A good introduction to the American Revolution and the events that led to it.
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 | Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by B Bailyn
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £13.18 This is the best survey ot the underlying ideas of the Revolution, ideas that continue to shape how the country defines itself today.
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 | The War for America, 1775-1783 by Piers Mackesy
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £12.59 The American Revolution from the British perspective.
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 | A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence by Ray Raphael
Buy new: £7.52 / Used from: £4.91 This is a good examination of how the Revolution impacted the lives of the ordinary people in the colonies.
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 | Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £6.80 A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the drafting of the Constitution.
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 | The Age of Federalism: Early American Republic, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins
Buy new: £27.50 / Used from: £11.93 Elkins and McKitrick provide thorough coverage of the early years of the new republic, when America was seeking to define itself as a nation.
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 | The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815 by Marshall Smelser
Buy used from: £2.29 Though dated, this remains the best survey of the Jeffersonian years.
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 | Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
Buy used from: £2.00 A good account of westward exploration, including the famous Lewis & Clark expedition.
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 | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) by Daniel Walker Howe
Buy new: £13.47 / Used from: £17.46 Howe's excellent book provides a comprehensive account of America and the changes it underwent during the early and mid-19th century.
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 | A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (American Century) by Paul E. Johnson
Buy used from: £0.71 A fascinating examination of the intersection of commerce and religion during the Second Great Awakening.
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 | The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (Critical Issue) by Anthony F. C. Wallace
Buy used from: £2.65 An introduction to the federal government's Indian policy during the early nineteenth century.
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 | The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South by KENNETH Y STAMPP
Buy used from: £4.24 The best introduction to slavery in the antebellum South.
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 | Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery by James Brewer Stewart
Buy used from: £13.01 A good account of the abolitionist movement in America.
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 | The Impending Crisis, 1848-61 (Torchbooks) by David M. Potter
Buy used from: £5.49 Potter's book is the best chronicle of events leading up to the Civil War.
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 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Penguin history) by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £5.98 This is a fantastic single-volume account of the war, covering virtually every aspect of the conflict.
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 | For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £5.99 In this brief study, McPherson addresses the complex question of why Americans on both sides fought in the Civil War.
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 | Reconstruction (New American Nation Series) by Eric Foner
Buy new: £11.20 / Used from: £7.73 Foner's survey is indispensable for the breadth of its examination of a complex, controversial era.
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 | Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack
Buy new: £14.53 / Used from: £5.03 Litwack's book is the definitive account of how African Americans began constructing their lives in the aftermath of slavery.
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 | The Strange Career of Jim Crow, a Commemorative Edition by Woodward
Buy used from: £42.61 A great study of the white response to African American liberation after the Civil War and the system they constructed to limit it.
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