The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three individual essays, by thirty-three authorities on the Revolution, the Handbook provides readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides, ranging from the military and diplomatic to the social and political; from the economic and financial, to the cultural and legal. Its cast of characters ranges far, including ordinary farmers and artisans, men and women, free and enslaved African Americans, Indians, and British and American statesmen and military leaders. Its geographic scope is equally broad. The Handbook offers readers an American Revolution whose geo-political and military impact ranged from the West Indies to the Mississippi Valley; from the British Isles to New England and from Nova Scotia to Florida. The American Revolution of the Handbook is, simply put, an event that far transcended the boundaries of what was to become the United States.
In addition to a breadth of subject matter, the Handbook offers a broad range of interpretive and methodological approaches. Its authors include social historians, historians of politics and institutions, cultural historians, historians of diplomacy, imperial historians, ethnohistorians, and historians of gender and sexuality. Instead of privileging a single or even several interpretive perspectives, the Handbook attempts to capture the full scope of current revolutionary-era scholarship. Nothing comparable has been published in decades.
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This is a well-conceived and edited volume, and an excellent resource. * Andy Hamilton, British Journal for the History of Philosophy *
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Contributors
Introduction: American Revolutions, Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky
Part I. Cultures and Crises
1. Britain's American Problem: The International Perspective, P. J. Marshall
2. The Unsettled Periphery: The Backcountry on the Eve of the American Revolution, William B. Hart
3. The Polite and the Plebian, Michael Zuckerman
4. Political Protest and the World of Goods, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
5. The Imperial Crisis, Craig B. Yirush
6. The Struggle Within: Colonial Politics on the Eve of Independence, Michael A. McDonnell
7. The Democratic Moment: The Revolution and Popular Politics, Ray Raphael
8. Independence before and during the Revolution, Benjamin H. Irvin
Part II. War
9. The Continental Army, Caroline Cox
10. The British Army and the War of Independence, Stephen Conway
11. The War in the Cities, Mark A. Peterson
12. The War in the Countryside, Allan Kulikoff
13. Native Peoples in the Revolutionary War, Jane T. Merritt
14. The African Americans' Revolution, Gary B. Nash
15. Women in the American Revolutionary War, Sarah M. S. Pearsall
16. Loyalism, Edward Larkin
17. The Revolutionary War and Europe's Great Powers, Paul W. Mapp
18. Funding the Revolution: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Eighteenth-Century America, Stephen Mihm
Part III. A Revolutionary Settlement
19. The Impact of the War on British Politics, Harry T. Dickinson
20. The Trials of the Confederation, Terry Bouton
21. A More Perfect Union: The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution, Max M. Edling
22. The Evangelical Ascendancy in Revolutionary America, Susan Juster
23. The Problems of Slavery, Christopher Leslie Brown
24. Rights, Eric Slauter
25. The Empire That Britain Kept, Eliga H. Gould
Part IV. New Orders
26. The American Revolution and a New National Politics, Rosemarie Zagarri
27. Republican Art and Architecture, Martha J. McNamara
28. Print Culture after the Revolution, Catherine O'Donnell
29. Republican Law, Christopher L. Tomlins
30. Discipline, Sex, and the Republican Self, Clare A. Lyons
31. The Laboring Republic, Graham Russell Gao Hodges
32. The Republic in the World, 1783-1803, J. M. Opal
33. America's Cultural Revolution in Transnational Perspective, Leora Auslander
Index
Edward G. Gray is professor of early American history at Florida State University. Jane Kamensky is professor of American history at Brandeis University.
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