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==Further reading== <!-- This section should NOT contain any works cited in the article, which should be in Sources above --> {{further|Bibliography of the American Revolutionary War}} ===Reference works=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Barnes, Ian, and [[Charles Royster]]. ''The Historical Atlas of the American Revolution'' (2000), maps and commentary [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415922437/ excerpt and text search] * {{cite book|last1=Blanco|first1=Richard L.|last2=Sanborn|first2=Paul J.|title=The American Revolution, 1775β1783: An Encyclopedia|publisher=Garland Publishing Inc.|location=New York|year=1993|isbn=978-0824056230|url=https://archive.org/details/americanrevoluti0000unse_o8w2}} * {{cite book|last=Boatner|first=Mark Mayo III|title=Encyclopedia of the American Revolution|edition=2nd|publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]]|location=New York|year=1974|isbn=978-0684315133}} * {{Cite book|first=Nicholas|last=Canny|title=The Origins of Empire, The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume I|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998|isbn=0199246769|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQHSivGzEEMC|ref=refOHBEv1|access-date=July 22, 2009}} * {{cite book|last=Cappon|first=Lester|title=Atlas of Early American History|date=1976|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-911028-00-5}} * {{cite book|last1=Fremont-Barnes|first1=Gregory|last2=Ryerson|first2=Richard Alan|last3=Arnold|first3=James R.|last4=Wiener|first4=Roberta|title=The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War|publisher=Abc-clio|date=2006|isbn=978-1851094080}} * {{cite book|last1=Gray|first1=Edward G.|last2=Kamensky|first2=Jane|title=The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2013|isbn=978-0199746705}} * {{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Jack P.|last2=Pole|first2=J. R.|title=A Companion to the American Revolution|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|date=2003|isbn=978-1405116749}} * Herrera, Ricardo A. "American War of Independence" ''Oxford Bibliographies'' (2017) annotated guide to major scholarly books and articles [https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142036/http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0011.xml?rskey=iDQdfx&result=15&q=Hanoverian+Britain#firstMatch online] * Kennedy, Frances H. ''The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook'' (2014) A guide to 150 famous historical sites. * Purcell, L. Edward. ''Who Was Who in the American Revolution'' (1993); 1500 short biographies * {{cite book|last=Resch|first=John Phillips|title=Americans at War|publisher=MacMillan Reference Library|date=2005|isbn=978-0028658063}} * {{cite book|last1=Selesky|first1=Harold E.|last2=III|first2=Mark M. Boatner|last3=Schecter|first3=Barnet|title=Encyclopedia of the American Revolution|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|date=2006|isbn=0684314703}} * {{cite book|last=Symonds|first=Craig L.|title=A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution|date=1986|publisher=Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America|isbn=0933852533}} {{div col end|2}} ===Surveys of the era=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[John Richard Alden|Alden, John R.]] ''A history of the American Revolution'' (1966) 644 pp [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica00alde online], A scholarly general survey * Allison, Robert. ''The American Revolution: A Concise History'' (2011) 128 pp [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0195312953/ excerpt and text search] * Atkinson, Rick. ''The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775β1777'' (2019) (vol 1 of his 'The Revolution Trilogy'); called, "one of the best books written on the American War for Independence," [''Journal of Military History'' Jan 2020 p. 268]; the maps are [https://web.archive.org/web/20200725045812/https://revolutiontrilogy.com/books/the-british-are-coming/the-british-are-coming-maps/ online here] * {{cite book|last=Black|first=Jeremy|title=War for America|publisher=Sutton Publishing|date=2001|isbn=0750928085}}, British perspective * Brown, Richard D., and Thomas Paterson, eds. ''Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760β1791: Documents and Essays'' (2nd ed. 1999) *Bunker, Nick. ''An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America''. New York 2014. * {{cite book|last=Christie|first=Ian Ralph|title=Empire Or Independence|date=1976|publisher=Phaidon Press|isbn=0714816140}}, British perspective' * Cogliano, Francis D. ''Revolutionary America, 1763β1815; A Political History'' (2nd ed. 2008), British textbook * [[Joseph J. Ellis|Ellis, Joseph J.]] ''American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307276457/ excerpt and text search] * [[Don Higginbotham|Higginbotham, Don]]. ''The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763β1789'' (1983) [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;q1=don;q2=ACLS%20Humanities%20E-Book;op2=and;rgn=works;rgn1=author;rgn2=series;view=toc;idno=heb01365.0001.001 Online in ACLS Humanities E-book Project]; comprehensive coverage of military and domestic aspects of the war. * {{cite book|last=Jensen|first=Merrill|title=The Founding of a Nation|publisher=Hackett Publishing|date=2004|isbn=0872207056}} * {{cite book|last=Knollenberg|first=Bernhard|title=Growth of the American Revolution, 1766β1775|date=2003|publisher=Liberty Fund|isbn=0865974152}} * Mackesy, Piers. ''The War for America: 1775β1783'' (1992), British military study * [[Jack Rakove|Rakove, Jack N.]] ''Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America'' (2010) interpretation by leading scholar [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618267468/ excerpt and text search] * Taylor, Alan. ''[[American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750β1804]]'' (2016) 704 pp; recent survey by leading scholar * [[Stanley Weintraub|Weintraub, Stanley]]. ''Iron Tears: Rebellion in America 1775β83'' (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743226879/ excerpt and text search], popular * {{cite book|last=Wood|first=Gordon S.|title=Revolutionary Characters|publisher=Penguin Books|date=2007|isbn=978-0-14-311208-2}} {{div col end|2}} ===Specialized studies=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Baer, Friederike. ''Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War'' (Oxford University Press, 2022). [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hessians-9780190249632?cc=us&lang=en& Publisher's website]. * Bailyn, Bernard. ''The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution''. (Harvard University Press, 1967). {{ISBN|0674443012}} * {{cite book|last=Becker|first=C.L.|title=The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|year=1922|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tpMaAAAAYAAJ|access-date=May 29, 2023}} * Becker, Frank: [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171019144355/http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/european-media/european-media-events/american-revolution/frank-becker-the-american-revolution-as-a-european-media-event The American Revolution as a European Media Event], [[European History Online]], Mainz: [[Institute of European History]], 2011, retrieved: October 25, 2011. * {{cite book|author=Berkin, Carol|title=Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|year=2006|isbn=978-1400075324|url=https://archive.org/details/revolutionarymot00caro_0}} * {{cite book|last=Breen|first=T. H.|title=The Marketplace of Revolution|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2005|isbn=019518131X}} * {{cite book|last=Breen|first=T. H.|title=American Insurgents, American Patriots|publisher=Hill and Wang|year=2010|isbn=978-1429932608}} * {{cite book|last1=Brunsman|first1=Denver Alexander|last2=Silverman|first2=David J.|title=The American Revolution Reader|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-53757-5}} * CartΓ©, Katerine. ''Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History''. Chapel Hill: Omohondro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press 2021. {{ISBN|9781469662640}} * {{cite book|last=Chernow|first=Ron|title=Washington|publisher=Penguin|year=2010|isbn=978-1101444184}} * {{cite book|last1=Crow|first1=Jeffrey J.|last2=Tise|first2=Larry E.|title=The Southern Experience in the American Revolution|date=1978|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=0-8078-1313-3}} * {{cite book|last=Fischer|first=David Hackett|title=Paul Revere's Ride|publisher=Oxford University Press, US|date=1995|isbn=0195098315}} * Fischer, David Hackett. ''Washington's Crossing'' (2004). 1776 campaigns; Pulitzer prize. {{ISBN|0195170342}} * {{cite web|title=Washington : Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886β1953 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive|via=Internet Archive|date=March 25, 2023|publisher=New York, Scribner |url=https://archive.org/details/washington00free|access-date=May 29, 2023}} * Gilbert, Alan. ''Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipstuob in the War for Independence''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-226-29307-3}} * [[Gerald Horne|Horne, Gerald]]. ''The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America''. ([[New York University Press]], 2014). {{ISBN|1479893404}} * {{cite journal|last1=Hull|first1=N.E.H.|last2=Hoffer|first2=Peter C.|last3=Allen|first3=Steven L.|title=Choosing Sides: A Quantitative Study of the Personality Determinants of Loyalist and Revolutionary Political Affiliation in New York|journal=Journal of American History|volume=65|issue=2|pages=344β366|year=1978|issn=0021-8723|doi=10.2307/1894084|jstor=1894084}} * {{cite book|last=Kerber|first=Linda K.|author-link=Linda K. Kerber|title=Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America|year=1997|publisher=The University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|isbn=978-0807846322|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofrepublici00kerb_0}} * {{cite book|last1=Kidd|first1=Thomas S.|last2=Kidd|first2=S|title=God of Liberty|publisher=Basic Books|year=2010|isbn=978-0465022779}} * Langley, Lester D. ''The Long American Revolution and Its Legacy''(U of Georgia Press, 2019) [https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55104 online review] emphasis on long-term global impact. * {{cite book|last=Lockwood|first=Matthew|title=To Begin the World Over Again|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2019|isbn=978-0300232257}} * [[David McCullough|McCullough, David]]. [[1776 (book)|1776]] (2005). {{ISBN|0743226712}}; popular narrative of the year 1776 * [[Pauline Maier|Maier, Pauline]]. ''American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence'' (1998) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679779086/ excerpt and text search] * Nash, Gary B. ''The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America''. (2005). {{ISBN|0670034207}} * [[Allan Nevins|Nevins, Allan]]; ''The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775β1789'' 1927. [https://archive.org/details/americanstatesdu00nevi online edition] * {{cite book|last=Norton|first=Mary Beth|title=Liberty's Daughters|publisher=Scott Foresman & Company|date=1980|isbn=0673393488}} * Norton, Mary Beth. ''1774: The Long Year of Revolution'' (2020) [https://www.wsj.com/articles/1774-review-the-year-that-changed-the-world-11582303285?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 online review] by [[Gordon S. Wood]] * {{cite book|last=O'Shaughnessy|first=Andrew Jackson|title=The Men Who Lost America|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2013|isbn=978-0300195248}} * Palmer, Robert R. ''The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760β1800''. vol 1 (1959) * {{cite book|last1=Resch|first1=John Phillips|last2=Sargent|first2=Walter L.|title=War & Society in the American Revolution|date=2006|publisher=Northern Illinois University Press|isbn=0875803660}} * [[Murray Rothbard|Rothbard, Murray]], ''[[Conceived in Liberty]]'' (2011), ''Volume III: Advance to Revolution, 1760β1775'' and ''Volume IV: The Revolutionary War, 1775β1784''. {{ISBN|978-1933550985}}, {{oclc|810280385}} [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] perspective * {{cite book|author=Shy, John|title=Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|year=2008|isbn=978-1597404143|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb00439|access-date=October 2, 2010}} * Van Tyne, Claude Halstead. ''American Loyalists: The Loyalists in the American Revolution'' (1902) [https://books.google.com/books?id=mNtEAAAAIAAJ online edition] * Volo, James M. and Dorothy Denneen Volo. ''Daily Life during the American Revolution'' (2003) * Wahlke, John C. ed. ''The Causes of the American Revolution'' (1967) primary and secondary readings [https://archive.org/details/TheCausesOfTheAmericanRevolution online] * {{cite journal|author=Warren, Charles|author-link=Charles Warren (U.S. author)|title=Fourth of July Myths|journal=The William and Mary Quarterly|volume=2|issue=3|pages=237β272|year=1945|issn=0043-5597|doi=10.2307/1921451|jstor=1921451}} * Wood, Gordon S. ''American Revolution'' (2005) [excerpt and text search] 208 pp [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0753818078/ excerpt and text search] * {{cite book|last=Wood|first=Gordon S.|title=The Radicalism of the American Revolution|publisher=Knopf|date=1992|isbn=0679404937}} {{div col end|2}} ===Historiography=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Allison, David, and Larrie D. Ferreiro, eds. ''The American Revolution: A World War'' (Smithsonian, 2018) [https://www.amazon.com/American-Revolution-World-War/dp/1588346331/ excerpt] {{ASIN|B07FLJX556}} * Breen, Timothy H. "Ideology and nationalism on the eve of the American Revolution: Revisions once more in need of revising." ''Journal of American History'' (1997): 13β39. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2952733 in JSTOR] * Burnard, Trevor. ''Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution''. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 2023. {{ISBN|978-0-8139-4920-8}} Analysis of 400 scholarly journal articles. * Countrymen, Edward. "Historiography" in Harold E. Selesky, ed., ''Encyclopedia of the American Revolution'' (Gale, 2006) pp. 501β508. {{ISBN|978-0684314983}} * Gibson, Alan. ''[https://archive.org/details/interpretingfoun0000gibs/page/n3/mode/2up Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic]'' (2006).{{ISBN|978-0700614547}} * Hattem, Michael D. "The Historiography of the American Revolution" ''Journal of the American Revolution'' (2013) [https://web.archive.org/web/20180826063433/https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/08/historiography-of-american-revolution/ online] outlines ten different scholarly approaches * Morgan, Gwenda. ''The Debate on the American Revolution'' (2007). Manchester University Press. {{ISBN|978-0719052415}} * Schocket, Andrew M. ''Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution'' (2014). {{ISBN|9780814708163|9781479884100|9780814771174}} . How politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, museum professionals, and re-enactors portray the American Revolution. [https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-over-Founders-Remember-Revolution/dp/0814708161/ excerpt] * Shalhope, Robert E. "Toward a republican synthesis: the emergence of an understanding of republicanism in American historiography." ''William and Mary Quarterly'' (1972): 49β80. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1921327 in JSTOR] * Waldstreicher, David. "The Revolutions of Revolution Historiography: Cold War Contradance, Neo-Imperial Waltz, or Jazz Standard?" ''Reviews in American History'' 42.1 (2014): 23β35. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/v042/42.1.waldstreicher.html online] * Wood, Gordon S. "Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution." ''William and Mary Quarterly'' (1966): 4β32. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2936154 in JSTOR] * Young, Alfred F. and Gregory H. Nobles. ''Whose American Revolution Was It? Historians Interpret the Founding'' (2011). NYU Press. {{ISBN|978-0814797105}} {{div col end|2}} ===Primary sources=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence'' (2001), Library of America {{ASIN|B009OEAT8Q}} * Dann, John C., ed. ''The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence'' (1999). {{ISBN|978-0226136240}}. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226136248/ excerpt and text search], recollections by ordinary soldiers * Humphrey, Carol Sue, ed. ''The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800'' (2003), Greenwood Press. {{ISBN|9780313320835}}, Newspaper accounts [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0313320837/ excerpt and text search] * Jensen, Merill, ed. ''Tracts of the American Revolution, 1763β1776'' (1967). American pamphlets {{ISBN|978-0872206939}} * Jensen, Merill, ed. ''English Historical Documents: American Colonial Documents to 1776: Volume 9'' (1955), 890 pp; major collection of important documents {{ISBN|978-0195195064}} * [[Samuel Eliot Morison|Morison, Samuel E.]] ed. ''Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764β1788, and the Formation of the Federal Constitution'' (1923). {{ISBN|978-0195002621}}. * Murdoch, David H. ed. ''Rebellion in America: A Contemporary British Viewpoint, 1769β1783'' (1979), 900+ pp of annotated excerpts from ''Annual Register''[https://archive.org/details/rebellioninameri0000unse online] * [https://archive.org/details/TheAmericanRevolutionThroughBritishEyes Martin Kallich and Andrew MacLeish, eds. ''The American Revolution through British eyes'' (1962)] primary documents * {{cite web|author=Fifth Virginia Convention|author-link=Fifth Virginia Convention|title=Preamble and Resolution of the Virginia Convention, May 15, 1776|publisher=Lillian Goldman Law Library|location=New Haven, CT|year=1776|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/const02.asp|access-date=October 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906044910/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/const02.asp|archive-date=September 6, 2010 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status=live}} {{div col end|2}}
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