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OverviewThe Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of colonial North America and their extraordinary struggles before, during, and after the eight-year-long civil war that secured the independence of thirteen rebel colonies from their erstwhile colonial parent. The chapters explore battles and diplomacy, economics and finance, law and culture, politics and society, gender, race, and religion. Its diverse cast of characters includes ordinary farmers and artisans, free and enslaved African Americans, Indians, and British and American statesmen and military leaders. In addition to expanding the Revolution's who, the Handbook broadens its where, portraying an event that far transcended the boundaries of what was to become the United States. It offers readers an American Revolution whose impact ranged far beyond the thirteen colonies. The Handbook's range of interpretive and methodological approaches captures the full scope of current revolutionary-era scholarship. Its authors, British and American scholars spanning several generations, include social, cultural, military, and imperial historians, as well as those who study politics, diplomacy, literature, gender, and sexuality. Together and separately, these essays demonstrate that the American Revolution remains a vibrant and inviting a subject of inquiry. Nothing comparable has been published in decades. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edward G. Gray (Professor of History, Professor of History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, US) , Jane Kamensky (Harry S. Truman Professor of American History, Harry S. Truman Professor of American History, Brandeis University, Cambridge, MA, US)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.40cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 16.80cm Weight: 1.089kg ISBN: 9780190257767ISBN 10: 0190257768 Pages: 700 Publication Date: 21 May 2015 Audience: General/trade , Adult education , General , Further / Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Maps 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationEdward G. Gray is professor of history at Florida State University. His previous books include The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler and New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America. Jane Kamensky is Professor of History and Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. Her previous books include The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse and Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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