The landed gentry / by Burnham, Sophy

Burke's American families with British ancestry : the lineages of 1,600 families of British origin now resident in the United States of America. by Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892

The battle ground / by Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945

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Gunslinging justice The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law / by Joyce, Justin A.

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The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / by Fazio, Michael W., Snadon, Patrick Alexander, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reinterpreting Latrobe -- Learning the profession: Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Hammerwood and Ashdown: Latrobe's English country houses and the architectural Avant Garde of the 1790s -- Reinventing the American house: an overview of Latrobe's design theories and architectural practice in a new country -- Houses for the Virginia landed gentry (1795-1798): Latrobe's first explorations of the American context -- Practice in Philadelphia (1798-1807): designs for a merchant elite, countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the emergence of the rational house -- A capital city and an expanding democracy (1807-1815): houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh -- Last houses (1815-1820): Latrobe's final years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans -- Some perspectives on an architect's career -- Epilogue: A preservation history of Latrobe's houses and notes on the vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde.…”
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Irish politics and social conflict in the age of the American Revolution / by O'Connell, Maurice R., 1922-

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An agrarian republic : farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era / by Dean, Adam Wesley

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Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase / by Kennedy, Roger G.

Table of Contents: “…Colonial-imperialism -- Colonies and empires -- From round table to board table -- Reinvesting the loot -- Landed gentry -- Chapter 8. Textile colonial-imperialism -- India is conquered by the mechanics -- Solving the problem of supply -- The Americans are put on notice -- Hamilton, Jefferson, and Tench Coxe respond to William Pitt -- Jefferson and the cotton business -- Slaves as cash crop -- The millers send out their salesmen -- Independence? …”
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