The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution

Edward G. Gray is professor of early American history at Florida State University. Jane Kamensky is professor of American history at Brandeis University.

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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