Recommended Readings: Unit 1

Welcome to the recommended readings page of "Resistance to Revolution," a Website for the study of the American Revolutionary period. Here we intend to build a comprehensive reading list for the study of the Revolution. Readings are listed in the particular sections in which they best fit. See the Main Page for a list of sections.

We also intend to make this a collaborative effort, and we'd like your help. If you'd like to submit a title or titles, please send a note to Tom Costa, along with a very brief annotation of the work.

Introduction: Background and General Histories

Readings

Andrews, Charles. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution. New Haven, CT, 1924.

Bonwick, Colin. The American Revolution. Charlottesville, VA, 1991.

Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause. New York, NY, 1982.

"The Spirit of a Free Constitution"

Readings

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA, 1967.

Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. New York, NY, 1972.

Morgan, Edmund S., and Helen M. Morgan. The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution.Chapel Hill, NC, 1952.

Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York, 1992.

"Who Should Rule at Home?"

Readings

Becker, Carl Lotus. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776. Madison, WI, 1909.

Countryman, Edward. A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790. Baltimore, MD, 1981.

Jameson, J. Franklin. The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement. Princeton, NJ, 1926.

Young, Alfred F., ed. The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. DeKalb, IL, 1976.

"Unite or Die"

Borden, Morton, and Penn Borden, eds. The American Tory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1972.

Calhoon, Robert. The Loyalists in Revolutionary America. New York, NY, 1973.

Hoffman, Ronald, Thad Tate, and Peter Albert, eds. An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution. Charlottesville, VA, 1985.

Nelson, William H. The American Tory. New York, NY, 1961.

"Minds and Hearts"

Readings

Berlin, Ira, and Ronald Hoffman, eds., Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution. Charlottesville, VA, 1983.

Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge, England, 1995.

Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC, 1961.

"Season of Youth"

Readings

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

Wood, Gordon. The Creation of the American Republic. Chapel Hill, NC, 1969.