The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Introduction JONATHAN DANIEL WELLS
• PART I The Early Republic
• 1 Race, Slavery, Sectional Conflict, and National Politics, 1770–1820 JOHN CRAIG HAMMOND
• 2 Class, the Market Revolution, and Urbanization CHRISTOPHER CLARK
• 3 “Female Women or Feminine Ladies”: Gender and Women's Rights before the Antebellum Movement LEIGH FOUGHT
• 4 Religion and Reform in the Early American Republic JOHN FEA
• 5 Borderlands and Cultural Survival: Native Americans in the Early National Era DAVID A. NICHOLS
• PART II Antebellum America
• 6 International Travel, Intellectual Life, and Global Influences on the United States DANIEL KILBRIDE
• 7 Party Politics and the Sectional Crisis: A Twenty-Year Renaissance in the Study of Antebellum Political History FRANK TOWERS
• 8 Literature and Culture during the American Renaissance JOHN ERNEST
• 9 Capitalism and Slavery in the United States MICHAEL ZAKIM
• PART III The Civil War Era
• 10 Secession and the Onset of Civil War RACHEL A. SHELDEN
• 11 Wartime Military Mobilization, Business, and Technology MARK R. WILSON
• 12 The Confederacy on the Battlefield and Home Front PAUL D. ESCOTT
• 13 Politics and Civil Liberties on the Union Home Front JOEL H. SILBEY
• 14 Waging War, Conducting Diplomacy: Leadership and the American Civil War BROOKS D. SIMPSON
• 15 African Americans and Emancipation in the Civil War AARON SHEEHAN-DEAN
• 16 Law, The Supreme Court, and the Constitution, 1840–1880 TIMOTHY S. HUEBNER
• PART IV America in the Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
• 17 Women's Rights and Gender Ideology, 1848–1890 BONNIE LAUGHLIN-SCHULTZ
• 18 Race, Crime, and Segregation VIVIEN MILLER
• 19 The Paradox of the Business and Political Economy of the New South NATALIE J. RING
• 20 American Literary and Cultural History in the Post-Civil War Era SARAH E. GARDNER
• 21 Industrial Empire ANDREW C. ISENBERG
• 22 Crisis, Protest, and Reform in Industrializing America WILLIAM A. LINK