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.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.

List of MapsContributorsIntroduction: American Revolutions, Edward G. Gray and Jane KamenskyPart I. Cultures and Crises1. Britain's American Problem: The International Perspective, P. J. Marshall2. The Unsettled Periphery: The Backcountry on the Eve of the American Revolution, William B. Hart3. The Polite and the Plebian, Michael Zuckerman4. Political Protest and the World of Goods, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich5. The Imperial Crisis, Craig B. Yirush6. The Struggle Within: Colonial Politics on the Eve of Independence, Michael A. McDonnell7. The Democratic Moment: The Revolution and Popular Politics, Ray Raphael8. Independence before and during the Revolution, Benjamin H. IrvinPart II. War9. The Continental Army, Caroline Cox10. The British Army and the War of Independence, Stephen Conway11. The War in the Cities, Mark A. Peterson12. The War in the Countryside, Allan Kulikoff13. Native Peoples in the Revolutionary War, Jane T. Merritt14. The African Americans' Revolution, Gary B. Nash15. Women in the American Revolutionary War, Sarah M. S. Pearsall16. Loyalism, Edward Larkin17. The Revolutionary War and Europe's Great Powers, Paul W. Mapp18. Funding the Revolution: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Eighteenth-Century America, Stephen MihmPart III. A Revolutionary Settlement19. The Impact of the War on British Politics, Harry T. Dickinson20. The Trials of the Confederation, Terry Bouton21. A More Perfect Union: The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution, Max M. Edling22. The Evangelical Ascendancy in Revolutionary America, Susan Juster23. The Problems of Slavery, Christopher Leslie Brown24. Rights, Eric Slauter25. The Empire That Britain Kept, Eliga H. GouldPart IV. New Orders26. The American Revolution and a New National Politics, Rosemarie Zagarri27. Republican Art and Architecture, Martha J. McNamara28. Print Culture after the Revolution, Catherine O'Donnell29. Republican Law, Christopher L. Tomlins30. Discipline, Sex, and the Republican Self, Clare A. Lyons31. The Laboring Republic, Graham Russell Gao Hodges32. The Republic in the World, 1783-1803, J. M. Opal33. America's Cultural Revolution in Transnational Perspective, Leora AuslanderIndex