Social History, U.S.#Bibliography

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Colonial[edit]

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America 1998
Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cape of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. 1986.
Bushman, Richard L. From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 1967.
Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (1964) (ISBN: 0195013557)
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. 1991. ISBN 0195069056
Hofstadter, Richard. America at 1750 (1971)
Innes, Stephen ed, Work, and Labor in Early America 1988.
Kulikoff, Allan. From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers 2000 online edition
Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 1986; Marxist
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. 3 vols.
Greven, Philip. Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts
Lockridge, Kenneth. A New England Town: The First Hundred Years. Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736 1970.
Main, Gloria L. Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 1983.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 1982.

1790-1900[edit]

Beard, Charles and Mary. The Rise of American Civilization (1927)
Bledstein, Burt. The Culture of Professionalism: the Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America (1976)
Clark, Christopher. Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. 2006. 352 pp.
Clark, Christopher. "Household Economy, Market Exchange and the Rise of Capitalism in the Connecticut Valley, 1800-1860" Journal of Social History, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter, 1979), pp. 169-189 in JSTOR
Genovese, Eugene. Roll Jordan Roll (1976), the most influential study of slavery
Merrill, Michael. "Putting 'Capitalism' in Its Place: A Review of Recent Literature," The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 52, No. 2 (Apr., 1995), pp. 315-326 2.0.CO;2-7">in JSTOR
Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991), influential synthesis online edition
Thomas G. West, Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America (1997)
Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), scholarly synthesis emphasizing class politics

1900-1970[edit]

Cohen, Lizabeth. Consumer's Republic, Knopf, 2003, ISBN 0375407502. Historical analysis of the working out of class in the United States.
Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1993)
Frankel, Noralee, and Nancy S. Dye eds Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era (1991) online edition
Lipset, Seymour Martin. American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (1997)
McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003)

Era of globalization[edit]

Jennifer L. Hochschild; Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (1995)

Frontier[edit]

Urban, Local and Ethnic Studies[edit]

Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1994)
Emmons, David M. The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 (1990)
Guglielmo, Thomas A. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (2003)
McKiven, Henry M. Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920 (1995)
Monkkonen, Eric Henry. America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980 (1988) complete text online free
Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1987) excerpt and text search
Toll, William. The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class (1982), Jews in Portland Oregon
Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City. (1972, rev ed. 1995) online edition

South[edit]

Burton, Orville Vernon. In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985) excerpt and text search
Campbell, Randolph B. "Planters and Plain Folks: The Social Structure of the Antebellum South," in John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History(1987), 48-77;
Cecil-Fronsman, Bill. Common Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina (1992)
Flynt, J. Wayne Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites (1979). deals with 20th century
Genovese, Eugene. Roll Jordan Roll (1974) highly influential study of slavery excerpt and text search
Newby, I. A. Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880-1915 (1989). concentrates on the poorest whites
Williams, David. Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley (1999) excerpt and text search

Labor Studies[edit]

Bernstein, Paul. American Work Values: Their Origin and Development (1997)
Faler, Paul G. Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1981)[ excerpt and text search]
Fink, Leon, ed. In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (1994)
Richard Edwards, Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century (1979)
Gutman, Herbert G. and Donald H. Bell, eds. The New England Working Class and the New Labor History (1987)
Gutman, Herbert, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (1988)
Gutman, Herbert, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1976)
Keil, Hartmut and John B Jentz, eds. German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I (1988), primary sources (in English translation)
Lichtenstein, Nelson. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2003)
Stephen P. Rice, Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America (2004)
Sennett, Richard, and Jonathan Cobb, The Hidden Injuries of Class, 1972, classic study of the subjective experience of class)
Stephenson, Charles, and Robert Asher, eds Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History (1986)
Wilentz, Sean. "On Class and Politics in Jacksonian America" Reviews in American History, Vol. 10, No. 4, The Promise of American History: Progress and Prospects (Dec., 1982) pp. 45-63 in JSTOR
Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), highly detailed scholarly synthesis emphasizing class
Irwin Yellowitz, The Position of the Worker in American Society, 1865-1896 (1969)

Race-Class-Gender[edit]

Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye eds Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era (1991)
Jennifer L. Hochschild; Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (1995)
West, Thomas G. Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America (1997) onlineedition

Stratification and Social mobility[edit]

Blau, Peter, and Otis D. Duncan, The American Occupational Structure (1967) classic study of structure and mobility; advanced quantitative sociology
Featherman, David L. and Robert M. Hauser, Opportunity and Change (1978), advanced quantitative sociology
David B Grusky. ed. Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective (2001) scholarly articles
Michael D. Grimes, Class in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: An Analysis of Theories and Measurement Strategies (1991)
Hazelrigg, Lawrence E., and Joseph Lopreato; Class, Conflict, and Mobility: Theories and Studies of Class Structure 1972.
Lichter, Daniel T. "Poverty and Inequality among Children' Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 23, 1997 online edition
Payne, Geoff. The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models (1990)
Reissman, Leonard. Class in American Society (1960), textbook online edition
Warner, W. Lloyd Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status (1949) online edition
Wright, Erik Olin ed. Approaches to Class Analysis (2005)Marxist essays articles

Images of class[edit]

Burke, Martin J. The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America (1995), intellectual history
Harold J. Bershady, ed. Social Class and Democratic Leadership: Essays in Honor of E. Digby Baltzell (1989)
Diggins, John Patrick. Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class (1999)
Eichar; Douglas M. Occupation and Class Consciousness in America Greenwood Press, 1989
Fantasia, Rick, Rhonda F. Levine, Scott G. McNall, eds. Bringing Class Back in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives Westview Press. 1991
Fussell, Paul. Class (a painfully accurate guide through the American status system), 1983. ISBN 0-345-31816-1
Ostrander; Susan A. Women of the Upper Class Temple University Press, 1984
Marmot, Michael. The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity 2004
Vanneman, Reeve, and Lynn Cannon. The American Perception of Class (1984)
Wunderlin, Clarence E. Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America 's Progressive Era (1992)

Class politics[edit]

Archer, Louise, et al. Higher Education and Social Class: Issues of Exclusion and Inclusion RoutledgeFalmer. 2003
Brooks, Clem, and Jeff Manza. "Class Politics and Political Change in the United States, 1952-1992," Social Forces, Vol. 76, 1997 online edition
Brooks, Clem, and David Brady. "Income, Economic Voting, and Long-Term Political Change in the U.S., 1952-1996," Social Forces, Vol. 77, 1999 online edition
Evans, Geoffrey. The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context (1999) online edition
Manza, Jeff, and Clem Brooks; Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions Oxford University Press, 1999 online edition
Manza, Jeff; "Political Sociological Models of the U.S. New Deal" Annual Review of Sociology, 2000 pp 297+ online edition

Primary sources[edit]

Binder, Frederick M., and David M. Reimers, eds. The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History 1492-1877 (2004); The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History: 1865-Present (2003)
Keil, Hartmut, and John B Jentz, eds. German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I (1988), primary sources (in English translation)
McElvaine, Robert S. ed, Down & Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983)