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, the Handbook provides readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- List of Maps
- Contributors
- Introduction: American Revolutions
- Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky
- Part I. Cultures and Crises
- Chapter 1. Britain's American Problem: The International Perspective
- P. J. Marshall
- Chapter 2. The Unsettled Periphery: The Backcountry on the Eve of the American Revolution
- William B. Hart
- Chapter 3. The Polite and the Plebian
- Michael Zuckerman
- Chapter 4. Political Protest and the World of Goods
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Chapter 5. The Imperial Crisis
- Craig B. Yirush
- Chapter 6. The Struggle Within: Colonial Politics on the Eve of Independence
- Michael A. McDonnell
- Chapter 7. The Democratic Moment: The Revolution and Popular Politics
- Ray Raphael
- Chapter 8. Independence before and during the Revolution
- Benjamin H. Irvin
- Part II. War
- Chapter 9. The Continental Army
- Caroline Cox
- Chapter 10. The British Army and the War of Independence
- Stephen Conway
- Chapter 11. The War in the Cities
- Mark A. Peterson
- Chapter 12. The War in the Countryside
- Allan Kulikoff
- Chapter 13. Native Peoples in the Revolutionary War
- Jane T. Merritt
- Chapter 14. The African Americans' Revolution
- Gary B. Nash
- Chapter 15. Women in the American Revolutionary War
- Sarah M. S. Pearsall
- Chapter 16. Loyalism
- Edward Larkin
- Chapter 17. The Revolutionary War and Europe's Great Powers
- Paul W. Mapp
- Chapter 18. Funding the Revolution: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Eighteenth-Century America
- Stephen Mihm
- Part III. A Revolutionary Settlement
- Chapter 19. The Impact of the War on British Politics
- Harry T. Dickinson
- Chapter 20. The Trials of the Confederation
- Terry Bouton
- Chapter 21. A More Perfect Union: The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution
- Max M. Edling
- Chapter 22. The Evangelical Ascendancy in Revolutionary America
- Susan Juster
- Chapter 23. The Problems of Slavery
- Christopher Leslie Brown
- Chapter 24. Rights
- Eric Slauter
- Chapter 25. The Empire That Britain Kept
- Eliga H. Gould
- Part IV. New Orders
- Chapter 26. The American Revolution and a New National Politics
- Rosemarie Zagarri
- Chapter 27. Republican Art and Architecture
- Martha J. McNamara
- Chapter 28. Print Culture after the Revolution
- Catherine O'Donnell
- Chapter 29. Republican Law
- Christopher L. Tomlins
- Chapter 30. Discipline, Sex, and the Republican Self
- Clare A. Lyons
- Chapter 31. The Laboring Republic
- Graham Russell Gao Hodges
- Chapter 32. The Republic in the World, 1783-1803
- J. M. Opal
- Chapter 33. America's Cultural Revolution in Transnational Perspective
- Leora Auslander
- Index
