America

Bibliography

• Reynolds, David, America, Empire of Liberty: A New History (London: Allen Lane, 2009) - the book linked to this Radio 4 series, published in January, provides a fuller guide to reading.
• Armitage, David, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007)
• Anderson, Fred, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (London: faber and faber, 2000)
• Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998)
• Cook, Noble D., Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998)
• Ellliott, J.H., Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 (London: Yale University Press, 2006)
• Ellis, Joseph J., Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (New York: Vintage Books, 2000)
• Frost, Elizabeth and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, Women's Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History (Oxford: Facts on File, 1992)
• Holt, Michael F., The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (New York: Hill and Wang, 2005)
• McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The American Civil War (London: Penguin, 1990)
• McPherson, James M., 'To the Best of My Ability': The American Presidents (London: DK Publishing, 2004)
• Mann, Charles C., Ancient Americans: Rewriting the History of the New World (London: Granta, 2005)
• Middlekauf, Robert, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Milner, Clyde A, II, O'Connor, Carol A., Sandweiss, Martha A., The Oxford History of the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
• Nash, Gary B., The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (London: Pimlico, 2007)
• Noll, Mark A., The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2002)
• Nye, David E., America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003)
• Taylor, Alan, American Colonies: The Settling of North America (New York: Penguin, 2001)
• Weber, David J., The Spanish Frontier in North America (London: Yale University Press, 1992)
• Wilentz, Sean, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005)