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Scott (1997); and Allan Peskin, Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms (2003). Imaginative and readable collections of short biographies of people from varied walks of life include Joyce Appleby, ed., Recollections of the Early Republic (1997); Jill Lepore, A is for American (2002); Michael Morrison, ed., The Human Tradition in Antebellum America (2000), and Norman Risjord, Representative Americans: The Romantics (2001).
    The standard account of the War of 1812 is Donald Hickey, The War of 1812 (1989); also very helpful are Robert Quimby, The U.S. Army in the War of 1812 (1997); J.C.A. Stagg, Mr. Madison’s War (1983); John K. Mahon, The War of 1812 (1972); and Anthony Pitch, The Burning of Washington (1998). David and Jeanne Heidler, The War of 1812 (2002) is a handy textbook. For the impact of the war on domestic politics, see Steven Watts, The Republic Reborn (1987); James Banner, To the Hartford Convention (1970); and Linda Kerber, Federalists in Dissent (1970). On Jackson’s great victory, see Robert Remini, The Battle of New Orleans (1999); Robin Reilly, The British at the Gates (1974); Frank Owsley Jr., The Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands (1981); and Wilburt Brown, The Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana (1969). For what Americans made of it, see John William Ward, Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age (1955).
    For the wars with the Barbary pirates, see A.B.C. Whipple, To the Shores of Tripoli (1991); Robert Allison, The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776–1815 (1995); Paul Baepler, ed., White Slaves, African Masters: Barbary Captivity Narratives (1993); John B. Wolf, The Barbary Coast (1979); and Frederick Leiner, The End of Barbary Terror (2006).
    Christopher Clark, Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War (2006) provides an excellent overview of its subject. Paul Conkin, “The American Economy in 1815,” in his Prophets of Progress (1980), supplies a succinct starting point. Also helpful are the varied essays in Cathy Matson, ed., The Economy of Early America (2006). For the family farming economy, see Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism (1990); Winifred Rothenberg, From Market-Places to a Market Economy (1992); David Danbom, Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (1995); Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution (2000); Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2000); Martin Bruegel, Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley (2002); and David R. Meyer, Roots of American Industrialization (2003). Despite the author’s preoccupation with unhelpful Marxist terminology, there is much helpful information in Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992). Rural white America in the early nineteenth century is evoked in Jack Larkin, The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840 (1988); Jane Nylander, Our Own Snug Fireside (1993); and Priscilla Brewer, From Fireplace to Cookstove (2000). For the roles of husbands and wives, see Nancy Osterud, Bonds of Community (1991); Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America (2000); Carole Shammas, A History of Household Government in America (2002); and Catherine Kelly, In the New England Fashion (1999).
    There are many fine studies of individual rural communities in preindustrial America. Examples include John Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Mass. (1990); John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986); and Randolph Roth, The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut Valley of Vermont (1987). The importance of religious communities for American political thought is argued aggressively by Barry Shain, The Myth of American Individualism (1994).
    On the origins of consumer culture, see Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America (1992); John Crowley, The Invention of Comfort (2001); Timothy Breen, The
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