Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution

The 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.

Edward 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 Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown 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.

- List 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 - Index