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Literature of the Early Republic

Aldridge, Alfred O. Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach . Princeton,NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1982.

Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature . Volume I: 1590-1820.New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.

Berkin, Carol, ed. Encyclopedia of American Literature. The Colonial and Revolutionary Era,1607 – 1814 . New York: Facts on File, 2002.

Burbank, Rex J., and Jack B. Moore, eds. The Literature of Early America . Columbus, OH:Charles E. Merrill, 1967.

Cady, Edwin H., ed. Literature of the Early Republic . New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Co.,1950.

Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America . New York andOxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986.

Downes, Paul. Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature .Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.

Elliott, Emory. Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the Early Republic, 1725-1810 .New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982.

Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States . New York: ColumbiaUP, 1988.

Elliott, Emory. The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature . Cambridge:Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.

Emerson, Everett, ed. American Literature, 1764-1789: The Revolutionary Years . Madison: Univ.of Wisconsin Press, 1977.

Fender, Stephen. American Literature in Context, 1620-1830 . London: Methuen, 1983

Fliegelman, Jay. Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750 – 1800 . Cambridge et al: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982.

Giles, Paul. Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 . Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Gilmore, Michael T., ed. Early American Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays . EnglewoodCliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1980.

Gunn, Giles, ed. Early American Writing . New York: Penguin, 1994.

Horner, George F. Colonial and Federalist American Writing . New York : OdysseyPress, 1966.



Howe, John. Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America . Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

Jehlen, Myra, and Michael Warner. The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 . New York:Routledge, 1997.

Larkin, Edward. Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.Lauter, Paul, et al, eds. Heath Anthology of American Literature . 3rd ed., vol. 1. Boston:

Houghton, 1998.

Lawson, Benjamin. S. Rereading the Revolution: The Turn-of-the-Century American Revolutionary War Novel . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press,2000.

Mulford, Carla, ed. Teaching the Literatures of Early America . New York, MLA, 1999.

Pickering, James H., ed. The World Turned Upside Down: Prose and Poetry of the American Revolution . Port Washington, NY, et al: Kennikat Press, 1975.

Schulman, Lydia Dittler. Paradise Lost and the Rise of the American Republic . Boston:Northeastern Univ. Press, 1992.

Shaffer, Jason. Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater . Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Silverman, Kenneth. A Cultural History of the American Revolution: Painting, Music, Literature,and the Theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the

Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789 . New York: Crowell , 1976.

Singer, Helmut. A Selection from American Literature, from the Revolutionary Period to thePresent. With Literary and Biographical Introductions and Annotations . München etal: Blutenburg et al, 1979.

Vietto, Angela. Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America . Aldershot, Engl., et al:Ashgate, 2005.

Wertheimer, Eric. Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872 . Stanford,Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2006.

Williams, Daniel E., ed. Liberty’s Captives: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic . Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2006.

Zafar, Rafia. We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870 .New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1997.

General Studies on the American Revolution

Adams, Willi Paul. The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of theState Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era . Trans. Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber. ChapelHill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Albanese, Catherine L. Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution .Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1976.

Alden, John Richard. The American Revolution, 1775-1783 . New York and Evanston: Harper &Row, 1954.

Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History. Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1931.



Arieli, Yehoshua. Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology . Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard Univ. Press, 1964.

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution . Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniv. Press, 1967.

Bailyn, Bernard, and John B. Hench, eds.The Press and the

American Revolution

. Worcester,Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1980.

Becker, Robert A. Revolution, Reform, and the Politics of American Taxation , 1763-1783 . BatonRouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1980.

Bonwick, Colin. The American Revolution . Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991.

Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution . New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.

Douglass, Elisha P. Rebels and Democrats: The Struggle for Equal Political Rights and Majority Rule during the American Revolution . Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1955.

Egnal, Marc. A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell

Univ. Press, 1988.Ferguson, E. James. The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790 .

Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Fundamental Testaments of the American Revolution . Library of Congress Symposium on theAmerican Revolution, 1973. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1973.

Greene, Jack P., ed. The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits . New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978.

Greene, Jack P., and Pauline Maier, eds. Interdisciplinary Studies of the American Revolution .Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1976.

Henderson, H. James. Party Politics in the Continental Congress . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.Hoffer, Peter Charles. Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the

Generation of 1776 . Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1983.

Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Religion in a Revolutionary Age . Perspectives on theAmerican Revolution. Charlottesville: United States Capitol Historical Society, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1994.

Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsideringthe American Revolution as a Social Movement . Perspectives on the American Revolution.Charlottesville: United States Capitol Historical Society , Univ. Press of Virginia, 1995.

Jameson, J. Franklin. The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement . Princeton:Princeton Univ. Press, 1926.

Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776 .New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968.

Kammen, Michael. A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination .New York: Knopf, 1978.

Keller, Rosemary. Patriotism and the Female Sex: Abigail Adams and the American Revolution .Brooklyn: Carlson, 1994.

Kurtz, Stephen G., and James H. Hutson, eds. Essays on the American Revolution . Chapel Hill:IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1973.

Langley, Lester D. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 . New Haven: Yale Univ.Press, 1996.



Lewis, James A. The Final Campaign of the American Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas . Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Lutz, Donald S. Popular Consent and Popular Control: Whig Political Theory in the Early StateConstitutions . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1980.

McCusker, John J. Rum and the American Revolution: The

Rum Trade and the Balance of

Payments of the Thirteen Continental Colonies . 2 vols. New York and London: Garland, 1989.

McDonald, Forrest. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 . 2ded. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979.

McIlwain, Charles Howard. The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation . NewYork: Macmillan, 1923.

Maier, Pauline. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. New York:Knopf, 1980.

Main, Jackson Turner. The Social Structure of Revolutionary America . Princeton: Princeton Univ.Press, 1965.

Main, Jackson Turner. The Sovereign States, 1775-1783 . New York: New Viewpoints, 1973.

Main, Jackson Turner. The Upper House in Revolutionary America, 1763-1788 . Madison: Univ.of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Martin, James Kirby. In the Course of Human Events: An Interpretative Exploration of the American Revolution . Arlington Heights, Ill.: AHM, 1979.

Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 . Vol. II of theOxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982.

Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 . Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1977.

Morgan, Edmund S. The Challenge of the American Revolution . New York: Norton, 1974.Morris, Richard B. , ed. The American Revolution, 1763-1783 . A Bicentennial Collection .

Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1970.

Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979.

Nevins, Allan. The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775-1789 . New York:Macmillan, 1924.

Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 . 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1959-1964.

Parker, John, and Carol Urness, eds. The American Revolution: A Heritage of Change .Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1975.

Purvis, Thomas L. Revolutionary America, 1763-1800 . New York: Facts on File, 1995.

Rahe, Paul A. Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution . Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Rakove, Jack N. The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the ContinentalCongress . New York: Knopf, 1979.

Reid, John Phillip. Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights .Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

Reid, John Phillip. Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Power to Tax .Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1987.



Schlenther, Boyd Stanley. Charles Thomson: A Patriot's Pursuit . Newark: Univ. of DelawarePress, 1990.

Verhoeven, W.M., ed. Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815 .New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Voices of the American Revolution. Ed. by The People’s Bicentennial Commission. New York:Bantam Books, 1974.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 . Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ.of North Carolina Press, 1969.

Young, Alfred F., ed. The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism . DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1976.

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. E210A55

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution . Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniv. Press, 1967. In print in paperback, $18.00. JA84 U5 B3

Bernstein, Richard B. with Kym S. Rice. Are We To Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution .Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987.

Christie, Ian R., and Benjamin W. Labaree. Empire or Independence, 1760-1776: A British- American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution . New York: Norton, 1976.

Cohen, Warren I., ed. The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Vol. I: TheCreation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 . By Bradford Perkins. New York: CambridgeUniv. Press, 1993.

Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785 . New York:Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996.

Development of a Revolutionary Mentality . The Library of Congress Symposium on the AmericanRevolution, 1972. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1972.

Dworetz, Steven M. The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism and the American Revolution .Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1990.

Gipson, Lawrence Henry. The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775 . New York: HarperTorchbooks, 1962.

Howe, John R., ed. The Role of Ideology in the American Revolution . New York et al: Holt &Rinehart, 1970.

Jennings, Francis. The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire . Cambridge, England:Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Matson, Cathy D., and Peter S. Onuf. A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America. American Political Thought . Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1990.

White, Morton. The Philosophy of the American Revolution . New York: Oxford Univ. Press,1978.

Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution . Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.



Declaration of Independence

Becker, Carl L. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas . NewYork: Random House, 1958.

Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence . New York: Alfred

A. Knopf, 1997.

Guidebooks & Encyclopedias

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.

Greene, Jack P., and J. R. Pole, eds. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution .Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Ltd., 1991.

Murray, Stuart. American Revolution . In Association with the Smithsonian Institution. New York:DK Eyewitness Books, 2005.

Purvis, Thomas L. A Dictionary of Early American History . Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.

Bibliographies

Gephart, Ronald M., comp. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: A Bibliography . 2 vols.Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1984.

Shy, John, comp. The American Revolution. Goldentree Bibliographies in American History .Northbrook, Ill.: AHM, 1973.

Smith, Dwight L., ed. Era of the American Revolution: A Bibliography . Clio Bibliography Series.Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1975.

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