A Companion to 19th-Century America

A Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritativeoverview of current historiographical developments and major themesin the history of nineteenth-century America. Twenty-sevenscholars, all specialists in their own thematic areas, examine thekey debates and historiography. A thematic and chronologicalorganization brings together the major time periods, politics, theCivil War, economy, and social and cultural history of thenineteenth century. Written with the general reader in mind, eachessay surveys the historical research, the emerging concerns, andassesses the future direction of scholarship.

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• Complete coverage of all the major themes and current debatesin nineteenth-century US history assessing the state of thescholarship and future concerns.
  
• 24 original essays by leading experts in nineteenth-centuryAmerican history complete with up-to-date bibliographies.
  
• Chronological and thematic organization covers both traditionaland contemporary fields of research - politics, periods, economy,class formation, ethnicity, gender roles, regions, culture andideas.

• A Companion to Colonial America (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History)
• After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
• A Companion to the American Revolution
• Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire
• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
• Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
• The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
• Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
• The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)