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I was going to ask this directly to Donnie but decided to open it up to everyone. I would like to make a list of the top
tenfive books for college students to read on colonial America (I figure ten would be too much work to come up with 😀 ). They can deal with anything – economics, religion, politics, etc., so long as they aid in the understanding of America in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries.Surely, we can do five, right? I want to add the list to my Great Awakening site before the Fall semester gets underway.American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor – used it in class. Very good, and very thorough. Covered all the areas, European settlements and colonies. Manufacturing Revolution by Lawrence Peskin - another one we used (and I've it read twice so far). Unlike what the title suggests, it is not about the Industrial Revolution or anything like that. It is more about how early Americans came to live and support themselves autonomously without the help of a Mother country. Covered from about the 1600's up until the Revolution. Very helpful and informative explaining the creation of American currencies and early financial institutions.The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol 1, Origins of Empire - multiple authors and essays. Didn't just cover the British colonies. One of my favorite books.
The Stamp Act Crisis By Edmund S. MorganThe Sacred Cause Of Liberty By Nathan O. HatchThe Ideological Origins Of the Revolution By Bernard BailynThe Carolina Backcountry On The Eve Of The Revolution By Charles WoodmasonThe Creation Of The American Republic 1776-1787 By Gordon S. WoodThe Great Awakening Edited By Alan Heimert And Perry MillerColonial South Carolina A History By Robert M. WeirUnder the Cope of Heaven : Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America By Patricia BonomiThe South Carolina Regulators The Story Of The First American Vigilante Movement By Richard Maxwell BrownI'll think of some more later....
Tell me – why do you include those books on South Carolina in there? Is it simply out of personal interest?
Tell me - why do you include those books on South Carolina in there? Is it simply out of personal interest?
Out of personal interest yes, but South Carolina was a very important colony because of the slave trade. No colonial study should be without an intensive look at the origins of the slave culture that came to dominate the South, and that begins and ends in South Carolina.
Ok, I added a new page to the site which has these books listed (except for the ones for which Amazon didn't sell the product as new):http://www.great-awakening.com/?page_id=185
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