Edward J. Balleisen, “Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America”

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Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity+Military Intelligence Blunders Publisher: University of Georgia+Carroll & Graf Publishers | ISBN: 0820327654+0786707151 | edition 2005+2000 | PDF | 254+372 pages | 10,5 mb Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study

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Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South By Albert J. Raboteau Publisher: Oxford University Press 2004 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0195174135 | PDF | 19 MB

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Mary Ellen Rowe – Bulwark of the Republic: The American Militia in Antebellum West Publisher: Praeger Publishers | 2003-09-30 | ISBN: 0313324107 | PDF | 248 pages | 1.05 MB

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