American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 4: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION

Bibliography

Books

General Histories. J. R. Alden, A History of the American Revolution (1969). Charles M. Andrews, The Colonial Background of the American Revolution (1924, rev. 1931). Ian R. Christie, Crisis of Empire (1966). Ian R. Christie and Benjamin W. Labaree, Empire or Independence, 1760-1776 (1976). Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (1985). Lawrence Henry Gipson, The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775 (1954). Merill Jensen, The Founding of a Nation (1968). Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (1982). John C. Miller, Origins of the American Revolution (1957). Edmund S. Morgan, The Birth of the Republic (1956). Alfred E. Young, Jr., ed., The American Revolution (1976).

The British Imperial System. John Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (1967). John Brooke, King George III (1972). Richard L. Bushman, King and People in Colonial Massachusetts (1987). Robert Calhoon, Dominion and Liberty: Ideology in the Anglo-American World (1994). J.C.D. Clark, The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832 (1994). Bernard Donoughue, British Politics and the American Revolution: The Path to War, 1773-1775 (1965). Sylvia R. Frey, The British Soldier in America (1981). Lawrence Henry Gipson, The British Empire Before the American Revolution, 15 vols. (1936-1970). Michael Kammen, A Rope of Sand (1968). Lewis B. Namier, England in the Age of the American Revolution, rev. ed. (1961); The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III, rev. ed. (1961). Robert C. Newbold, The Albany Congress and Plan of Union of 1754 (1955). Alison Gilbert Olson, Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690-1790 (1992). Richard Pares, War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739-1763 (1936). Howard H. Peckham, The Colonial Wars, 1689-1762 (1963). Alan Rogers, Empire and Liberty (1974). John Shy, Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution (1965).

The French and the Indians. Thomas P. Abernethy, Western Lands and the American Revolution (1937). Fred Anderson, A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years War (1984); Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America 1754-1766 (2000). David H. Corkran, The Cherokee Frontier (1962); and The Creek Frontier (1967). R. S. Cotterill, The Southern Indians (1954). Gregory Evans Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (1992). Francis Jennings, The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire (1984); Empire of Fortune (1988). Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000). John T. McGrath, The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane (2000). John Oliphant, Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier 1756-63 (2001). Howard H. Peckham, Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (1947). William Pencak, War, Politics, and Revolution in Provincial Massachusetts (1981). Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 (1999). Timothy J. Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (2000). Harold E. Selesky, War and Society in Early Connecticut (1990). J. M. Sosin, Whitehall and the Wilderness (1961). Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991).

Merchants and the Empire. Barton H. Barbour, Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade. (2001). Thomas C. Barrow, Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America (1967). John Crowley, The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution (1993). Oliver M. Dickerson, The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution (1951). Thomas Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia (1986). Joseph Ernst, Money and Politics in America, 1755-\-1775 (1973). David Hancock, Citizens of the World : London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (1997). Michael Kammen, Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the Politics of Mercantilism (1970). Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution (1968). Rebecca Starr, A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina. (1998). John W. Tyler, Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution (1986).

American Resistance. David Ammerman, In the Common Cause (1974). Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776 (2000). Marc Egnal, A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution (1988). Paul A. Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 (1987). Dirk Hoerder, Crowd Action in Revolutionary Massachusetts (1977). Peter C. Hoffer, Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776 (1983). Benjamin W. Labaree, The Boston Tea Party (1964). Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution (1972). Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis, rev. ed. (1953). Gary Nash, The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979). Peter D. G. Thomas, The Townshend Duties Crisis (1987). Richard Bushman, King and People in Colonial Massachusetts (1987). Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre (1970).

Revolutionary Ideology. Stuart Andrews, The Rediscovery of America: Transatlantic Crosscurrents in an Age of Revolution (1998). Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967). Ian R. Christie, Wilkes, Wyvil, and Reform (1962). Nathan Hatch, The Sacred Cause of Liberty (1977). Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982). Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle (1968). Richard Merritt, Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775 (1966). Robert R. Palmer, The Age of Democratic Revolution: Vol. 1, The Challenge (1959). J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (1975). Clinton Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic (1953). George Rud, Wilkes and Liberty (1962).

Revolutionary Politics. Carl Becker, The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York (1909). R. E. Brown and B. K. Brown, Virginia, 1705-1786 (1964). Richard D. Brown, Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts (1970). L. R. Gerlach, Prologue to Independence (1976). Ronald Hoffman, A Spirit of Dissension (1973). David Lovejoy, Rhode Island Politics and the American Revolution (1958). Benjamin Newcomb, Political Partisanship in the American Middle Colonies, 1700-1776 (1995). Neil R. Stout, The Perfect Crisis: The Beginning of the Revolutionary War (1976). Charles S. Sydnor, Gentlemen Freeholders (1952). Theodore Thayer, Pennsylvania Politics and the Growth of Democracy (1953).

Films

The American Story, No. 1: Road to Revolution (1985). Colonial America in the Seventeen Sixties (1967). Colonial America: The Roots of Revolution 1607-1775 (1979). Lexington, Concord, & Independence (1967). Patrick Henry: Virginia Patriot (1990). Paul Revere (1996).

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