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Course Bibliography
The bibliography is intended to assist students undertake coursework. Students should supplement these materials with systematic searches of the university catalogue, online journal stores, and recommended websites. You may also wish to utilise bibliographic software such as RefWorks to manage the references. For help and advice see our RefWorks help pages (http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/refworks) and the Writing References help (http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/student/writing/referencing/howto/)
Recommended Purchases (18 items)
There is no required preparatory reading or obligatory purchases. But you may wish to buy some of the following publications which address the themes and topics covered in the module, and read them before starting the course or throughout the semester. For preparation read at least one textbook, one thematic book, and one military history. You will find it beneficial to have your own copy of a source book, ideally Richard D. Brown, Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791 (2d ed., 2000), but other editions and other source books will be useful.
Textbooks (3 items)
The American Revolution reader - 2014 Book | Recommended
Revolutionary America 1763-1815: a political history - Francis D. Cogliano, 2000 Book | Suggested for Student Purchase
The American Revolution - Edward Countryman, 2003 Book | Optional | Older edition also available
Source Books (2 items)
Major problems in the era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: documents and essays - Brown, Richard D., 2000 Book | Suggested for Student Purchase | Editions 1st ed. 1992; 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 3rd. ed. 2012 (with Ben Carp, ed.)
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Sourcebook - Francis D Cogliano, Kirsten E Phimister, 2010
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Book | Essential
Thematic Books (9 items)
America's revolution - Patrick Griffin, c2013 Book
From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 - Pauline Maier, 1992 Book
The Unknown American Revolution: the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America - Gary B. Nash, 2006 Book | Suggested for Student Purchase
The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the origins of the American Revolution - Colin Nicolson, 2000 Book | Optional
The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution - Robert G. Parkinson, 2016 Book | Recommended
Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation - Jack N. Rakove, 2011 Book | Optional
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 - Alan Taylor, 2016 Book | Recommended
The War for independence and the transformation of American society - Harry M. Ward, 1999 Book | Optional
The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Gordon S. Wood, 1993 Book | Essential
Military History (4 items)
The War of American Independence, 1775-1783 - Stephen Conway, 1995 Book | Suggested for Student Purchase
The War of American Independence: military attitudes, policies and practice, 1763-1789 - Don Higginbotham, 1983 Book | Optional
The War for America 1775-1783 - Piers Mackesy, 1993 Book | Optional
The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire - Andrew O'Shaughnessy, 2014
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Book | Suggested for Student Purchase
Online Resources (4 items)
In addition to those listed below for this module, please consult the recommended websites for History at http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/history.
Journals
JSTOR contains online from leading academic journals, including The William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal in early American history. Search the University's Library Catalogue by journal title and follow links to JSTOR. Or access JSTOR via the Library's A-Z of Online Resources (http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/az.php).
Transcripts of Documents (4 items)
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Website
From Revolution to Reconstruction Website
The Coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776 Webpage
The Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr Website
Historical Documentary Editions (13 items)
Digital Editions (8 items)
Adams Family Papers Digital Editions Website | Essential
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams Website | Recommended
Legal Papers of John Adams Website | Optional
Papers of John Adams Website | Essential
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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Website | Essential
Founders Online. Papers of Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington Website
The Papers of Francis Bernard: Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-1769. 6 Vols. - Colin Nicolson Website | Essential
The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson - John W. Tyler, Elizabeth Dubrulle Website | Essential
Printed Editions (5 items)
The Papers of Francis Bernard: Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69, 6 vols. - Colin Nicolson, Francis Bernard, 2007- Book | Essential
Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783, 21 vols. - K.G. Davies, 1972-1981 Book | Essential
The Revolution in America, 1754-1788: Documents and Commentaries - J. R. Pole, 1970 Book | Optional
The American Revolution: writings from the pamphlet debate - Gordon S. Wood, 2015 Book | Recommended
The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson: 1740-1766 - John W. Tyler, Elizabeth Dubrulle, 2014 Book | Recommended
Reference (9 items)
The American Revolution 1775-1783: an encyclopedia - Richard L. Blanco, Paul J. Sanborn, 1993 Book | Recommended | Volume 1, A-L. REFERENCE ONLY
The American Revolution 1775-1783: an encyclopedia - Richard L. Blanco, Paul J. Sanborn, 1993 Book | Recommended | Volume 2, M-Z. REFERENCE ONLY
American national biography - John Arthur Garraty, Mark C. Carnes, 1999 Book | Recommended | REFERENCE ONLY.
Dictionary of American biography - Allen Johnson, c1964 Book | Recommended | REFERENCE ONLY
A bibliographical guide to the history of the British Empire, 1748-1776 - Lawrence Henry
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Gipson, 1969 Book | Recommended | REFERENCE ONLY.
The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature: Mary Beth Norton; associate editor - Mary Beth Norton, Pamela Gerardi, 1995 Book | Recommended | REFERENCE ONLY.
The writer's guide to everyday life in colonial America - Dale Taylor, c1997 Book | Recommended | REFERENCE ONLY
Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: a bibliography, 2 vols. - Ronald M. Gephart, Library of Congress, 1984 Book
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution - Jack P. Greene, J. R. Pole, 1991 Book
Theoretical (7 items)
On revolution - Hannah Arendt, 1963 Book | Recommended
Revolution - Peter Calvert, 1970 Book | Optional
Theories of revolution: an introduction - A. S. Cohan, 1975 Book | Optional
Revolutions: theoretical, comparative, and historical studies - Jack A. Goldstone, 1994 Book | Optional
Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world - Jack A. Goldstone, 1991 Book | Recommended
States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia and China - Theda Skocpol, 1979 Book | Optional
Revolution in history - Roy Porter, Mikulas Teich, 1986 Book | Optional
Methodological (2 items)
Telling the truth about history - Joyce Appleby, Lynn Avery Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, 1994 Book | Recommended
A Different Kind of Independence: The Postwar Restructuring of the Historical Study of Early America - Joyce Appleby, 1993 Article | Optional
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Historiography of the American Revolution (23 items)
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays - Richard D. Brown, 2d ed. 2000 Book | Essential | Chp. 1 Essays by Smith and Wood
The Central Themes of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn, 1992 Chapter | Optional | Chapter 9
Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions Once More in Need of Revising - T. H. Breen, 1997 Article | Optional
The People's American Revolution - Edward Countryman, 1983 Book | Optional
The Origins of the Revolution in Virginia: A Reinterpretation - Marc Egnal, 1980 Article | Optional
Liberty, equality and slavery: the paradox of the American Revolution - Sylvia Frey, 1987 Chapter | Recommended
Crafting a Usable Past: Consensus, Ideology, and Historians of the American Revolution - Colin Gordon, 1989 Article | Recommended
The Reinterpretation of the American Revolution, 1763-1789 - Jack P. Greene, 1968 Book | Recommended
An Uneasy Connection: An Analysis of the Preconditions of the American Revolution - Jack P. Greene, 1973 Chapter | Essential | Not in Library. Collect from Colin Nicolson
The Limits of the American Revolution - Jack P. Greene, 1987 Chapter | Recommended
Whose American Revolution was it?: historians interpret the founding - Alfred F. Young, Gregory H. Nobles, c[2011 Book | Recommended
State Politics and Ideological Transformation: Gordon S. Wood's Republican Revolution - Peter S. Onuf, 1987 Article | Optional
Republicanism and Early American Historiography - Robert E. Shalhope, 1982 Article | Optional
Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography - Robert E. Shalhope, 1972 Article | Optional
Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution - Gordon S. Wood, 1966
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Article | Recommended
Beyond the American Revolution: explorations in the history of American radicalism - Alfred Fabian Young, 1993 Book | Recommended
Was the American Revolution a Conservative Movement? - Larry Madaras, James M SoRelle Chapter | Recommended | Read Volume 1, number 6 by Degler and Wood.
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America - Gary B. Nash, 2006 Book | Essential | Read Chps: Introduction; 4: “Reaching the Climax, 1774-1776,”; 5: “The Dual Revolution, 1776-1778; 7: “Radicalism at Floodtide, 1778-1781.”
Noble ideals and ignoble interests - Gwenda Morgan, 2014 Chapter | Essential
The American Revolution: New Directions for a New Century - Andrew M. Schocket, 2010 Article | Essential
The Revolutions of Revolution Historiography: Cold War Contradance, Neo-Imperial Waltz, or Jazz Standard? - David Waldstreicher, 2014 Article | Essential
The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Gordon S. Wood, 1991; 1993 Book | Essential | Read chapters: Introduction; 2 “Patricians and Plebeians”; 3: “Patronage”; 10 “Revolution”; 13 “Equality”; 19 “The Middle-Class Order”.
Forum: How Revolutionary was the Revolution: A Discussion of Gordon S. Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” - Gordon S. Wood, 1994 Article | Recommended
The American Colonies and the British Empire (32 items)
The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 - David Armitage, M.J. Braddick, B. Bailyn, 2001 Book
Crucible of war: the seven years' war and the fate of empire in British North America - Fred Anderson, 2000 Book | Recommended
The Colonial Period of American history, 4 vols. - Charles McLean Andrews, 1964 Book | Optional
The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York: 1760-1776 - Carl Lotus Becker, 1909 Webpage | Optional
Deference, Republicanism, and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth-Century
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America - Richard R. Beeman, 1992 Article | Optional
An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690-1776 - T. H. Breen, 1986 Article | Essential
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence - T. H. Breen, 2004 Book | chps. 2-5.
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays - Richard D. Brown, 2d ed. 2000 Book | Essential | Essays by Greene, “The Preconditions of the American Revolution”; Beeman, “The Emergence of Popular Politics,” Anderson, “Friction Between Colonial Troops and British,” and Marshall, “Britain Defined by Its Empire Regulars.”
Knowledge is Power: the diffusion of information in Early America, 1700-1865 - Richard D. Brown, 1991 Webpage | Optional
Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution - Benjamin L. Carp, 2007 Book | Essential | . chp. 2: “Orderly and Disorderly Mobilization in the Taverns of New York City” and chp. 5: “Philadelphia Politics, In and Out of Doors, 1742–76”
Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 - Linda Colley, 1996 Book | Essential | chps. 2-3
The navigation acts and the American Revolution - O. M. Dickerson, 1974 Book | Optional
A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution - Marc Egnal, 1988 Book
Three men of Boston: leadership and conflict at the start of the American Revolution - John R. Galvin, 1997 Book | Optional
Peripheries and center: constitutional development in the extended polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 - Jack P. Greene, 1986 Book | Optional | Read chapters 1-7 and prologue.
An Uneasy Connection: An Analysis of the Preconditions of the American Revolution - Jack P. Greene, 1973 Chapter | Essential | Collect from Colin Nicolson
Convergence: The Development of an American Society, 1720-1780 - Jack P. Greene, 1988 Chapter | Recommended
The Quest for Power: the lower houses of assembly in the southern royal colonies, 1689-1776 - Jack P. Greene, 1963; 1972 Book | Optional
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Albion's seed: four British folkways in America - Fischer, David Hackett, 1989 Book | Optional
Evolution and revolution: American society, 1600-1820 - Henretta, James A., Nobles, Gregory H., 1987 Book | Optional
At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America - Eric Hinderaker, Peter C. Mancall, 2003 Book
Origin of the American Revolution: 1759-1766 - Bernhard Knollenberg, 1961 Book | Optional
The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 - Brendan J. McConville, 2007 Book | Recommended | chp. 3 “Remembrance of Kings Past
American slavery, American freedom: the ordeal of colonial Virginia - Edmund Sears Morgan, 1975 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 15-17.
Colonial America: a history, 1585-1776 - Richard Middleton, 1996 Book | Optional
The Urban Crucible: social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American Revolution - Gary Baring Nash, 1979 Book | Recommended | Read Chp. 9 “Prosperity and Poverty: The Seven Years War and Its Aftermath”
The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution - Colin Nicolson, 2000 Book | Essential | chps 1-3
The royalist revolution: monarchy and the American founding - Eric Nelson, 2014 Book | Recommended
"The Harmony We Were Famous For": An Interpretation of Pre-Revolutionary South Carolina Politics - Robert M. Weir, 1969 Article | Optional
British America 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire - Steven Sarson, 2005 Book
American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence - R.C. Simmons, 1977 Book
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 - Richard White, 2012 Book | Not in Library
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The Stamp Act Crisis 1764-1766 (15 items)
Primary Sources (5 items)
The Stamp Act, 1765 Website | Essential
Documents in Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1790: Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions, 1765; The Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765; Franklin's Examination before the the House of Commons; Parliament Repeals the Stamp Act but Declares Its Authority, 1766 Document | Essential
Documents in Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions, 1765; The Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765; Franklin's Examination before the the House of Commons; Parliament Repeals the Stamp Act but Declares Its Authority, 1766 Document | Essential | electronic source
The Formation of the Sons of Liberty Website | Recommended
"An Alphabetical List of the Sons of Liberty who din'd at Liberty Tree, Dorchester," 1769 Website | Optional
Secondary Sources (10 items)
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson - Bernard Bailyn, 1974 Book | Recommended | Chp. “The Furies”
A great and necessary measure: George Grenville and the genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763-1765 - John L. Bullion, 1982 Book | Optional
British Ministers and American Resistance to the Stamp Act, October- December 1765 - John L. Bullion, 1992 Article | Recommended
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays - Richard D. Brown, 2d ed. 2000 Book | Essential | chp. 4 "British Reforms and Colonial Resistance." Essay by Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan “The Assertion of Parliamentary Control and Its Significance”
Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution - Benjamin L. Carp, 2007 Book | Recommended | chp. 1: The Boston Waterfront as Contested Space, 1747-74
Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution - Paul A. Gilje, 2007 Book | Recommended | Chp. 4 "Sons of Neptune"
From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 - Pauline Maier, 1992
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Book | Essential | Chps, 2-4 and Appendix.
The Stamp Act crisis: prologue to revolution - Edmund Sears Morgan, Helen M. Morgan, 1953 Book | Recommended | Chapter on Thomas Hutchinson.
The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the origins of the American Revolution - Colin Nicolson, 2000 Book | Essential | Chps. 4-5
British politics and the Stamp Act crisis: the first phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767 - Peter D.G. Thomas, 1975 Book | Recommended | Chps. 5-7.
The Stamp Act Riots (12 items)
Primary Sources (5 items)
Documents in Papers of Francis Bernard, Vol. 2: Nos. 368, 382-384 Document | Essential | Gov. Francis Bernard's letter to the Board of Trade, 15 & 16 Aug. 1765 (No. 368); Proclamations of 14 & 26 Aug. 1765 (Nos. 382 and 382); Bernard to the earl of Halifax, 31 Aug. 1765 (No. 384)
Documents in Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: New York Stamp Act Riot (p.54); Deborah Franklin describes the Stamp Act Riots (p.190) Document | Essential
Document in The Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr: Reports on the Stamp Act Riots in the Boston Gazette, 19 and 26 Aug., 2 and 9 Sept. 1765 and Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser, 2 Sept. 1765 Document | Essential | Browse the website to locate the issues.
John Rowe diary 1, 13-14 August 1765, pages 182-183 Website | Recommended
Letter from Cyrus Baldwin to Loammi Baldwin, 15 August 1765 Website | Recommended
Secondary Sources (7 items)
The Problem of the Early American Crowd - Edward Countryman, 1973-4 Article | Essential
Crowd action in revolutionary Massachusetts, 1765-1780 - Dirk Hoerder, 1977 Book | Recommended
From Resistance to Revolution: colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 - Pauline Maier, 1991 Book | Essential | Read chapters 1-2 and appendix The sons of liberty.
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Stamps and Popes: Rethinking the Role of Violence in the Coming of the American Revolution - Peter C. Messer, 2015 Chapter | Optional
Popular Uprisings and Civil Authority in Eighteenth-Century America - Pauline Maier, 1970 Article | Essential
The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution - Colin Nicolson, 2000 Book | Essential | chps. 4 & 5
Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution - Gary B. Nash, 1979 Book | Recommended | chp. 11 "The Stamp Act in the Port Towns"
The Townshend Duties Controversy 1767-1772 (17 items)
Primary Sources (5 items)
Henry Hulton and the American Revolution: An Outsider's Inside View - Neil Longley York, 2010 Book | Recommended
Documents in Papers of Francis Bernard, Vol. 4: Nos. 623, 630 Document | Essential | Gov. Francis Bernard's letters to the earl of Hillsborough, 11 & 13 June 1768 (No. 623) and 14 June 1768 (No. 630)
Document of Charleston Merchants Nonimportation Agreement in Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791 Document | Recommended
The Illustrated Inventory of Paul Revere's works at the American Antiquarian Society Website | Essential | Browse the collection and examine Revere's craftsmanship and consider his skill as a propagandist.
Boston non-consumption agreement, 28 Oct. 1767 Website | Essential | Browse the manuscript. Why would people subscribe to this document?
Secondary Sources (12 items)
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence - T. H. Breen, 2004 Book | Essential | chp. 6 “Strength out of Dependence: Strategies of Consumer Resistance in an Empire of Goods” ; chp. 7 “Making Lists—Taking Names: The Politicization of Everyday Life”
The Townshend Acts of 1767 - Robert J. Chaffin, 1970 Article | Optional
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Crowd Action in Revolutionary Massachusetts, 1765-80 - Dirk Hoerder, 1977 Book | Recommended | chps.5 to 8, on non-importation and opposition to Townshend Acts, 1767-1770.
The Founding of a Nation: a history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776 - Merrill Jensen, 1968 Book | Optional
From resistance to revolution: colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 - Maier, Pauline, 1991 Book | Recommended | Read chps. 1-4 and Appendix "The Sons of Liberty".
The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the origins of the American Revolution - Colin Nicolson, 2000 Book | Recommended | Chps. 5-7
McIntosh, Otis & Adams are our demagogues: Nathaniel Coffin and the loyalist interpretation of the origins of the American evolution - Colin Nicolson, 1996 Article | Recommended
A Plan "to Banish all the Scotchmen": Victimization and Political Mobilization in Pre-Revolutionary Boston - Colin Nicolson, 2007 Article | Recommended
Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essays - Mary Beth Norton, Ruth M. Alexander, 1994 Book | Recommended | Essays by Hoff and Norton in chp. 4.
The Townshend duties crisis: the second phase of the American Revolution, 1767-1773 - Peter D.G. Thomas, 1987 Book | Recommended
Smugglers and patriots: Boston merchants and the advent of the American Revolution - John W. Tyler, 1986 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 2-4.
The Boston Massacre - Hiller B. Zobel, c.1971; 1996 Book | Recommended | chps. 16-19 covering the “Massacre” of 5 March 1770 and subsequent trials.
From Resistance to Revolution 1773-1775 (17 items)
Primary Sources (1 items)
Documents: John Adams reflects on the Boston Tea Party; Parliament debates the Coercive Acts, 1774; -The Coercive Acts, 1774; The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, Sept. 1774 in Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays
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Document | Essential
Secondary Sources (16 items)
The Logic of Rebellion - Bernard Bailyn, 1967; 1992 Chapter | Essential
American insurgents, American patriots: the revolution of the people - T. H. Breen, 2010 Book | Recommended
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence - T. H. Breen, 2004 Book | Essential | chp. 8 “Bonfires of Tea: The Final Act”
Dramatizing the Ideology of Revolution: Popular Mobilization in Virginia, 1774 to 1776 - Rhys Isaac, 1976 Article | Recommended
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 - Rhys Isaac, 1982 Book | Recommended | Read chp. 11 "Political Enthusiasm and Continuing Revivalism"
From Resistance to Revolution: colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 - Pauline Maier, 1991 Book | Recommended | read chapters 6-9
The Boston Tea Party - Benjamin Woods Labaree, c1964 Book | Recommended
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America - Gary B. Nash, 2006 Book | Recommended | chp. 3 “Building Momentum, 1766-1774”
Class War? Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia - Michael A. McDonnell, 2006 Article | Recommended
Patriot vs. Patriot: Social Conflict in Virginia and the Origins of the American Revolution - Michael A. McDonnell, Woody Holton, 2000 Article | Recommended
Philadelphia's Mechanics in the First Decade of Revolution 1765-1775 - Charles S. Olton, 1972 Article | Recommended
Tea party to independence: the third phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776 - Peter D.G. Thomas, 1991 Book | Recommended | chp.3 on British reactions to Boston Tea Party.
Political Mobilization and the American Revolution: The Resistance Movement in Philadelphia, 1765 to 1776 - Richard A. Ryerson, 1974 Article | Recommended
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Smugglers and patriots: Boston merchants and the advent of the American Revolution - Tyler, John W., 1986 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 5-6.
The shoemaker and the tea party: memory and the American Revolution - Young, Alfred Fabian, 1999 Book | Recommended
Britain and the American Revolution - H. T. Dickinson, 1998 Book | Recommended | chp.3, Essay by Dickinson, pp.63-96.
Revolutionary Ideology (9 items)
Primary Sources (2 items)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online Website | Essential | Search the EECO to locate and read original printed pamphlets by James Otis, Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson, and others. Use keywords to find pamphlets about the American Revolution. Use your initiative! For example: James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved [Boston, 1764]; [Daniel Dulany], Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue [[Annapolis,] 1765]; [John Dickinson], Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1773-1776: (Library of America #266) - Gordon S Wood, 2015 Book | Recommended | Read a pamphlet by James Otis, Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson, or another.
Secondary Sources (7 items)
The ideological origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn, 1967; 1992 Book | Essential
The language of liberty, 1660-1832: political discourse and social dynamics in the Anglo-American world - J.C.D. Clark, 1994 Book | Optional | chapters 1-5, 13-39, introduction to part 3, pp. 240-281
The rights of man and the American Revolution - James Kirby Martin, 1980 Chapter | Optional
Inventing the people: the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America - Edmund Sears Morgan, 1989 Book | Optional
The concept of liberty in the age of the American revolution - John Phillip Reid, 1988 Book | Optional
Constitutional History of the American Revolution - John Phillip Reid, 1995
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Book | Recommended
The eighteenth-century Commonwealthman: studies... from the Restoration of Charles II until the war with the Thirteen Colonies - Caroline Robbins, 1961 Book | Optional
The Outbreak of War (5 items)
Primary Sources (1 items)
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Sourcebook - Francis D Cogliano, Kirsten E Phimister, 2010 Book | Essential
Secondary Sources (4 items)
The War of American Independence: military attitudes, policies and practice, 1763-1789 - Don Higginbotham, 1983 Book | Recommended
The glorious cause: the American Revolution, 1763-1789 - Robert Middlekauff, 1985 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 10-12.
Paul Revere's ride - David Hackett Fischer, 1995, c1994 Book | Essential | pp.78-201.
Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution 1773-1776 - Peter D.G. Thomas, 1991 Book | Recommended | pp. 29-85.
Independence (5 items)
Primary Sources (3 items)
Common Sense - Tom Paine, 1776; 2000 Book | Essential
Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 Website | Essential
John Adams to Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, 3 July 1776 Website | Essential
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Secondary Sources (2 items)
American Scripture - Pauline Maier, 1997 Book | Recommended
The declaration of independence: a study in the history of political ideas - Carl Lotus Becker, 1966 Book | Optional
Loyalists (18 items)
Primary Sources (1 items)
Peter Oliver's Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion - Peter Oliver, 1961 Book | Recommended
Secondary Sources (17 items)
The ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson - Bernard Bailyn, 1974 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 1-7.
Faces of revolution: personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence - Bernard Bailyn, 1992 Book | Optional | Read chapter on Hutchinson.
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays - Richard D. Brown, 2d ed. 2000 Book | Recommended | Essay by Calhoon, "The Loyalists Confront Civil, Revolutionary, and Partisan Warfare."
The king's friends: the composition and motives of the American loyalist claimants - Wallace Brown, 1965 Book | Optional | esp. chps. on Loyalists of Pennsylvania, New York, South Carolina & Virginia
The reintegration of the loyalists and the disaffected - Robert M. Calhoon Chapter | Recommended | Read chapters 11-13
Elizabeth Murray: a woman's pursuit of independence in 18th Century America - Patricia Cleary, 2000 Book | Recommended
A people in Revolution: the American Revolution and political society in New York, 1760-1790 - Edward Countryman, 1989 Book | Recommended | Chps. 4-6
Liberty's exiles: the loss of America and the remaking of the British Empire - Maya Jasanoff
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, 2012 Book | Optional
Women of the Republic: intellect and ideology in revolutionary America - Linda K. Kerber, 1986 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 4-5.
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America - Gary B. Nash, 2006 Book | Recommended | Read “Radicalism Loyalism," and "Choosing Sides", pp. 238-263
The American tory - William H. Nelson, 1961 Book | Recommended
Governor Francis Bernard, the Massachusetts friend of government and the advent of the revolution - 1991 Document | Optional | Available from: Colin Nicolson
A ‘Great National Calamity’: Sir William Pepperrell and Isaac Royall, Reluctant Royalists - Colin Nicolson, Stuart Scott, 2000 Article | Optional
The liberty we seek: loyalist ideology in colonial New York and Massachusetts - Janice Potter, 1983 Book | Recommended
The New York loyalists - Philip Ranlet, 1986 Book | Recommended
The American Loyalists: Notes on Their Organization and Numerical Strength - Paul H. Smith, 1968 Article | Essential
Social Death and Slavery: The Logic of Political Association and the Logic of Chattel Slavery in Revolutionary America - Peter Thompson, 2015 Chapter
The War of Independence: 1775-1783 (24 items)
Primary Sources (5 items)
Fate of a Nation: American Revolution Through Contemporary Eyes - William P. Cumming, Hugh Rankin, 1975 Book | Recommended
Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence - John C. Dann , 1980 Book | Recommended
Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783, 21 vols. - K.G. Davies, 1972-1981
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Book | Essential
Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution through the Eyes of those Who Fought and Lived it. - George F. Scheer, Hugh F. Rankin, 1987 Book | Optional
George Washington to John Hancock, 24 September 1776 Document | Essential
Secondary Sources (19 items)
The South in revolution 1763-1789 - John Richard Alden, 1957 Book | Recommended
War for America: the fight for independence 1775-1783 - Jeremy Black, 1991 Book | Optional
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays - Richard D. Brown, 2d ed. 2000 Book | Recommended | Chp. 6: essays by Shy and Higginbotham
The problem of national defense in the American Revolution - Wayne Carp, 1987 Chapter | Optional
Wars and revolutions: Britain 1760-1815 - Ian R. Christie, 1982 Book | Recommended | Read chapter 5.
The War of American Independence, 1775-1783 - Stephen Conway, 1995 Book | Essential | Read chapters 2-6, 9.
To Subdue America: British Army Officers and the Conduct of the Revolutionary War - Stephen Conway, 1986 Article | Recommended
Washington's Crossing - David Hackett Fischer, 2006 Book | esp. chps. “The Plan of the Campaign: The Howe Brothers in America" and “The Rebels.”
Washington: the indispensable man - James Thomas Flexner, 1976 Book | Recommended
The War of American Independence: military attitudes, policies and practice, 1763-1789 - Don Higginbotham, 1983 Book | Recommended
The Early American Way of War: Reconnaissance and Appraisal - Don Higginbotham, 1987 Article | Recommended
The Hidden War: British Intelligence Operations during the American Revolution - Roger Kaplan, 1990 Article | Recommended
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The War for America 1775-1783 - Piers Mackesy, 1993 Book | Recommended
The Glorious Cause: the American Revolution, 1763-1789 - Robert Middlekauff, 1985 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 12-22.
The Price of Independence: a realistic view of the American revolution - Broadus Mitchell, 1974 Book | Optional
An empire divided: the American Revolution and the British Caribbean - Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, 2000 Book | Optional
The price of folly: British blunders in The War of American Independence 1775-1783 - William Seymour, W. F. N. Watson, 1995 Book | Recommended
The British Navy and the American Revolution - John A. Tilley, George L. Tilley, Thomas Crane, 1987 Book | Optional
The Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution 1775-1783 - Jeremiah Greenman, 2983 Book
War, Politics and Social Change (49 items)
Social Conflict (15 items)
The American Revolution - Edward Countryman, 2003 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 4-7.
Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution - Terry Bouton, 2007 Book | Recommended
Passion is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution - Nicole Eustace, 2008 Book | Optional
Keepers of the revolution: New Yorkers at work in the early republic - Paul A. Gilje, Howard B. Rock, 1992 Book | Optional
Escaping Insecurity: The American Founding and the Control of Violence - David Hendrickson Chapter | Optional
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The American Revolution considered as a social movement - J. Franklin Jameson, 1967 Book | Recommended
Impact of Class Relations and Warfare in the American Revolution: The New York Experience - Sung Bok Kim, 1982 Article | Recommended
Who Should Rule at Home? Dutchess County, New York, in the American Revolution - Staughton Lynd, 1961 Article | Recommended
The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia - Michael A McDonnell, 2012 Book | Essential
The social structure of revolutionary America - Jackson Turner Main, 1965 Book | Optional
Parades and the politics of the street: festive culture in the early American republic - Simon P. Newman, 1997 Book | Optional
Violence and the Limits of the Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania - Kenneth Owen Chapter
Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America - Sarah J. Purcell, 2010 Book | Recommended
Force, order and democracy in the American Revolution - John Shy, 1987 Chapter | Optional
The war for independence and the transformation of American society - Harry M. Ward, 1999 Book | Recommended
Race and Slavery (10 items)
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays - Richard D. Brown, 2d ed. 2000 Book | Recommended | Chp. 8 essays by Frey and Berlin
Forced founders: Indians, debtors, slaves, and the making of the American Revolution in Virginia - Woody Holton, 1999 Book | Recommended
American Slavery: 1619-1877 - Peter Kolchin, 1995 Book | Recommended
Race and Revolution - Gary B. Nash, 1990
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Book | Recommended
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 - Gary B. Nash, 1991 Book | Optional
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture - Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf, 1999 Book | Recommended
The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution - Robert G. Parkinson, 2016 Book | Essential
The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century Virginia - Mechal Sobel, 1989 Book | Optional
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution - Alan Taylor, 2006 Book | Optional
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 - Alan Taylor, 2013 Book | Recommended
Religion (3 items)
Religion and the aftermath of the American Revolution - Patricia U. Bonomi, 1987 Chapter | Recommended
Religion in a revolutionary age - Ronald Hoffman, Peter J. Albert, 1994 Book | Recommended
In pursuit of religious freedom: church, state and people in the new republic - Nathan O. Hatch, 1987 Chapter | Recommended
Women (15 items)
The book of Abigail and John: selected letters of the Adams family, 1762-1784 - Abigail Adams, Adams, John, Butterfield, L. H., Friedlaender, Marc, Kline, Mary-Jo, 1975 Book | Recommended
Women and politics in the age of democratic revolution - Harriet Branson Applewhite, Darline Gay Levy, 1993 Book | Recommended
Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic - Cassandra A. Good, 2015
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Book
Dependence in the era of independence: the role of women in republican society - Elaine Crane, 1987 Chapter | Recommended
Portia - Edith Belle Gelles, 1995 Book | Essential
Abigail Adams: a writing life - Edith Belle Gelles, 2002 Book | Essential
Women of the Republic: intellect and ideology in revolutionary America - Linda K. Kerber, 1986 Book | Recommended
Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony - Ben Marsh, 2007 Book | Recommended
The Evolution of White Women's Experience in Early America - Mary Beth Norton, 1984 Article | Optional
Major problems in American women's history: documents and essays - Mary Beth Norton, Ruth M. Alexander, 1996 Book | Recommended | An older edition of this book is available.
The women of Boston - Alfred Young, 1993 Chapter | Optional
Liberty's daughters: the revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 - Mary Beth Norton, 1980 Book | Essential
Masquerade: the life and times of Deborah Sampson, Continental soldier - Alfred Fabian Young, 2004 Book | Recommended
Weathering the Storm: Women of the American Revolution - Elizabeth Evans, 1975 Book | Optional
Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony - Ben Marsh, 2007 Book
Militarisation (6 items)
"Recollections of Sarah Osborne" in Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays - 2000 Document | "Recollections of Sarah Osborne".
We All Hoisted the American Flag: National identity among American Prisoners in Britain during the American Revolution - Francis D. Cogliano, 2000
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Article | Recommended
Listening to the "Inarticulate": William Widger's Dream and the Loyalties of American Revolutionary Seamen in British Prisons - Jesse Lemisch, 1969 Article | Recommended
Citizen sailors: becoming American in the age of revolution - Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, 2015 Book
Patriots by Default: Queens County, New York, and the British Army, 1776-1783 - Joseph S. Tiedemann, 1986 Article | Recommended
The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society: War and Society in the United States, 1775-83 - Harry M Ward, 2014 Book | chp 8 "Followers of the Army."
Constitution-Making (27 items)
Primary Sources (4 items)
Pennsylvania Constitution, 1776 Website | Recommended
US Constitution - 1787 Website | Recommended
Massachusetts Constitution, 1780 Website | Essential
Founders Online. Papers of Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington Website | Recommended
Secondary Sources (23 items)
Age of federalism: early American Republic, 1788-1800 - Stanley Elkins, 1995 Book | Recommended
Peripheries and center: constitutional development in the extended polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 - Jack P. Greene, 1990 Book | Recommended | Read chapters 7-9.
The Articles of Confederation: an interpretation of the social-constitutional history of the American revolution, 1774-1781 - Merrill Jensen, 1962 Book | Optional
The New Nation: a history of the United States during the Confederation, 1781-1789 -
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Merrill Jensen, 1950 Book | Recommended
Essays on the United States Constitution - 1987 Article | Recommended | Essays on the United States Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton and the political order: an interpretation of his political thought & practice - Morton J. Frisch, 1991 Book | Optional
The making of American politics, 1750-1850 - M. J. Heale, 1977 Book | Optional
The idea of a party system: the rise of legitimate opposition in the United States 1780-1840 - Richard Hofstadter, 1969 Book | Recommended
Men of little faith: the anti-federalists on the nature of representative government - Cecilia Kenyon, 1968 Chapter | Recommended
Essays on the making of the constitution - Leonard Williams Levy, 1987 Book | Recommended
Abraham Yates's History of the Movement for the United States Constitution - Staughton Lynd, 1963 Article | Recommended
Jefferson and his time - Dumas Malone, 1948 Book | Optional
Jefferson and his time - Dumas Malone, 1951 Book | Optional
Jefferson and his time - Dumas Malone, 1962 Book | Optional
The Presidency of George Washington - Forrest McDonald, [1974] Book | Optional
We the people: the economic origins of the constitution - Forrest McDonald, 1958 Book | Recommended
Toward a more perfect union: the American Republic, 1783-1815 - John Chester Miller, 1970 Book | Recommended
Alexander Hamilton: a concise biography - Broadus Mitchell, 1976 Book | Recommended
State-Making in Revolutionary America: Independent Vermont as a Case Study - Peter S. Onuf, 1981
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Article | Optional
Thomas Jefferson and the new nation: a biography - Merrill D. Peterson, 1970 Book | Recommended
Republicanism: the Career of a Concept - Daniel T. Rodgers, 1992 Article | Recommended
The American counterrevolution: a retreat from liberty, 1783-1800 - Larry E. Tise, 1998 Book | Optional
The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 - Gordon S. Wood, 1969 Book | Essential
The Age of the Revolution: American, Atlantic and Transnational Dimensions (13 items)
The Declaration of Independence: A Global History - David Armitage, 2007 Book | Recommended
The age of revolutions in global context, c. 1760-1840 - 2010 Book | Optional
The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 - David Armitage, M.J. Braddick, B. Bailyn, 2001 Book | Optional
Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790's - Joyce Appleby, 1984 Book | Optional
Political experience and enlightenment ideas in eighteenth-century America - Bernard Bailyn, 1987 Chapter | Optional
Stress and stability in late eighteenth-century Britain: reflections on the British avoidance of revolution - Ian R. Christie, 1984 Book | Optional
Nationalism in the age of the French revolution - Otto Dann, J. R. Dinwiddy, 1988 Book | Optional
Our sister republics: the United States in an age of American revolutions - Caitlin Fitz, 2017 Book
The American Revolution: its character and limits - Jack P. Greene, 1987 Book | Recommended
Conservative Enlightenment and Democratic Revolutions: The American and French Cases
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in British Perspective - J. G. A. Pocock, 1989 Article | Optional
The Machiavellian moment: Florentine political thought and the Atlantic republican tradition - J.G.A. Pocock, 1975 Book | Optional
The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Gordon S. Wood, 1991; 1993 Book | Recommended
Many-Headed Hydra, The: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic - Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker, 2013 Book
Britain and the American Revolution (11 items)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources (11 items)
English radicals and the American Revolution - Colin Bonwick, c1977 Book | Optional
Wars and revolutions: Britain 1760-1815 - Ian R. Christie, July 1982 Book | Optional | Read chapters 4-5.
Crisis of empire: Great Britain and the American colonies, 1754-1783 - Ian R. Christie, 1966 Book | Optional
Empire or independence 1760-1776: a British-American dialogue on the coming of the American Revolution - Ian R. Christie, Benjamin Woods Labaree, 1976 Book | Recommended
Britons: forging the nation, 1707-1837 - Linda Colley, 2009 Book | Recommended
The British Isles and the War of American Independence - Stephen Conway, 2000 Book | Recommended
English politics and the American Revolution - John W. Derry, 1976 Book | Optional
Britain and the American Revolution - H. T. Dickinson, 1998 Book | Recommended
Lord North: the Prime Minister who lost America - Peter Whiteley, 1996 Book | Optional
Lord North - Peter D.G. Thomas, 1976 Book | Optional
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The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire - Andrew O'Shaughnessy, 2014 Book | Essential
Scotland and America (8 items)
Cargoes of despair and hope: Scottish emigration to North America, 1603-1803 - Ian H. Adams, Meredyth Somerville, 1993 Book | Recommended
England's Cultural Provinces: Scotland and America - John Clive and Bernard Bailyn, 1954 Article | Recommended
Scotland, Europe and the American Revolution - Owen Dudley Edwards, George Shepperson, 1976 Book | Recommended
The American enlightenment, 1750-1820 - Robert A. Ferguson, 1997 Book | Recommended
Jefferson and the Scottish Enlightenment - Ronald Hamowy, 1980 Article | Recommended
Scotland and America: a study of cultural relations, 1750-1835 - Andrew Hook, 1975 Book | Recommended
North Britishness and the Nature of Eighteenth-Century British Patriotisms - Colin Kidd, 1996 Article | Recommended
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence - Garry Wills, 1980 Book
The Revolutionary Generation (7 items)
Primary Sources (1 items)
Founders Online. Papers of Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington Website | Recommended | http://founders.archives.gov/
Secondary Sources (6 items)
Gentlemen revolutionaries: power and justice in the new American republic - Tom Cutterham, 2017 Book | Recommended
Passion is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution - Nicole Eustace, 2008
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Book | Recommended
The Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic - Richard Godbeer, 2009 Book | Recommended
Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic - Cassandra A. Good, 2015 Book | Recommended
Liberty's exiles: the loss of America and the remaking of the British Empire - Maya Jasanoff , 2012 Book | Recommended
George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution - Alfred F. Young, 1981 Article | Recommended
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