American Borderlands Reading List
1. Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of
1492, 30th Anniversary Edition (1973; Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003)
2. William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New
England, 20th Anniversary Edition (1983; New York: Hill and Wang, 2003)
3. J. R. McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
4. Judith A. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2001)
5. Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes
Region, 1650-1815, 20th Anniversary Edition (1991; New York: Cambridge University Press,
2011)
6. Pekka Hamalainen, The Comanche Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
7. Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001)
8. Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1998)
9. Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the
American Revolution (New York: Vintage, 2006)
10. David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1992)
11. Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and
Indian Allies (New York: Vintage, 2010)
12. Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
13. Andre Resendez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (New York:
Basic Books, 2007)
14. Daniel H. Usner, Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The
Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1992)
15. Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
16. James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the
Southwest Borderlands (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
17. Ramon A. Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage,
Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
1991)
18. Elliott West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998)
19. Elliott West, The Essential West: Collected Essays (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012)
20. Colin Calloway, New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early
America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
21. Colin G. Calloway, One Vast Winter County: The Native American West before Lewis and
Clark (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
22. Colin G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006)
23. Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2011)
24. John Mack Faragher, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians
from their American Homeland (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005)
25. Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American
West (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
26. Claudio Saunt, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W. W.
Norton, 2014)
27. Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters in the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
(New York: Hill and Wang, 2014)