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 The
American Revolution: A Basic Bibliography
This bibliography includes highlights of
a vast literature. The emphasis is on well-received recent books and
works that have achieved the status of classics. When possible, works
that are currently available have been chosen. Each entry concludes
with the book’s Library of Congress call number. A more in-depth
bibliography can be found at the Revolutionary
War page of H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine.
General Studies:
Countryman, Edward. The
American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. In print in paperback, E208
C73
Greene, Jack P., ed. The American Revolution:
Its Character and Limits. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978.
432 pp. E209 A497
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious
Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Vol. II of the Oxford
History of the United States. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982.
In print in paperback, E173 O94
Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of
the Republic, 1763-89. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, rev. ed., 1993.
In print in paperback, E 208 M85
Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of
the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of
North Carolina Press, 1998 [1969]. In print in paperback, JA84 U5 W6
African Americans:
Frey, Sylvia. Water from the Rock:
Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1991. In print in paperback, E269 N3 F74
Kaplan, Sidney, and Emma Nogrady Kaplan.
The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. Amherst:
Universtiy of Massachusetts Press, 1989. In print in paperback, E269
N3 K36
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in
the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1996 [1961]. In print in paperback, E269 N3 Q1
Background, Ideological Underpinnings:
Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Background
of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History.
Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1931. Out of print. E210 A55
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological
Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
Univ. Press, 1967. In print in paperback, JA84 U5 B3
Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How
England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785. New York: Atlantic
Monthly Press, 1996. In print in paperback, E210 C665
Jennings, Francis. The Creation
of America: Through Revolution to Empire. Cambridge, England:
Cambridge University Press, 2000. In print in paperback, E210 J43
Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of
the American Revolution, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. In print in
paperback (Random House), E209 W65
Declaration of Independence:
Becker, Carl L. The Declaration
of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New York:
Random House, 1958. In print in paperback, JK128 B4
Maier, Pauline. American
Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1997. In print in paperback, Vintage, 1998, E221 M24
Diplomatic:
Bemis, Samuel Flagg. The Diplomacy of the American
Revolution. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1957. Out
of print. E249 B455D
Dull, Jonathan R. A Diplomatic History
of the American Revolution. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985.
In print in paperback, E249 D859
Guidebooks:
Gelbert, Doug. American
Revolutionary War Sites, Memorials, Museums and Library Collections: A
State-by-State Guidebook to Places Open to the Public. McFarland & Co.,
1998. In print in hardcover, E230 G45
Indian Nations:
Calloway, Colin G. The American
Revolution in Indian Country, Crisis and Diversity in Native American
Communities. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. In print
in paperback, E83.775 C35
Dowd, Gregory Evans. A
Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-
1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992. In print in
paperback, E77 D694
Loyalists:
Moore, Christopher. The
loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement. McClelland & Stewart, 1994 [1984].
In print in paperback, E277 M76
Military:
Mackesy, Piers. The War for
America, 1775-1783. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993 [1964]. In
print in paperback, E208 M14
Shy, John. A People Numerous and
Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, rev. ed., 1990. In print in
paperback, E230 S5
Naval:
Coggins, Jack. Ships and Seamen of the American
Revolution. 1969. Out of print. E271 C63
Morison, Samuel E. John
Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography. Annapolis: United States Naval
Institute Press, 1999 [1959]. In print in paperback, E207 J7 M6
Regional Studies:
Alden, John Richard. The South in
the Revolution, 1763-1789. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press,
1957. Vol. III of A History of the South. In print in hard cover, F209
H673
Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and
Their World. New York: Hill and Wang, 1976. In print in paperback, F74
C8 G76
Lumpkin, Henry. From Savannah
to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. Columbia: Univ. of
South Carolina Press, 1981. In print in paperback, E230.5 S7 L85
The Revolution in American Memory:
Kammen, Michael. A Season of Youth:
The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1988 [1978]. In print in paperback, F 209 K35
Young, Alfred F. The Shoemaker and the
Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. Boston: Beacon
Press. In print in paperback, E215.7 Y68
Women:
Gundersen, Joan R. To Be Useful to the
World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790. New York: Twayne,
1996. In print in hardcover, E276 G86
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's
Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750- 1800.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996 [1980]. In print in paperback,
HQ1418 N67
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