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The War of American Independence

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Causes of the Revolution

Abernethy, Thomas P. Western Lands and the American Revolution. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1937.

Adams, Thomas R. "The British Pamphlets of the American Revolution for 1774: A Progress Report." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 81 (1969), pp. 31-103.

Ammerman, David. In the Common Cause: American Response to the Coercive Acts of 1774. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974.

Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution. Revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931.

Aykroyd, Elizabeth Rhoades. "Notes on the Raids on Fort William and Mary." Historical New Hampshire, 32 (Fall 1977), pp. 144-146.

Bailyn, Bernard. Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.

-----. "Political Experience and Enlightenment Ideas in Eighteenth-Century America." American Historical Review, 67 (January 1962), pp. 339-351.

Barrow, Thomas C. Trade and Empire: the British Customs Service in Colonial America 1660-1775. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Becker, Carl. "Growth of Revolutionary Parties and Methods in New York Province, 1765-1774." American Historical Review, 7 (October 1901), pp. 56-76.

Billington, R. A., editor. The Reinterpretation of Early American History. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1966.

-----. "The Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1768." New York History, 25 (April 1944), pp. 182-194.

Bridenbaugh, Carl B. The Spirit of '76: The Growth of American Patriotism Before Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

-----. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.

Brown, Weldon A. Empire or Independence: A Study of the Failure of Reconciliation, 1774-1783. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1941.

Bullion, John L. A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763-1765. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1982.

Cambone, Stephen A. "Noble Sentiments and Manly Eloquence: The First Continental Congress and the Decision for American Independence." Ph.D. Dissertation: Claremont Graduate School, 1982.

Chaffin, Robert J. "The Townshend Acts of 1767." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 27 (January 1970), pp. 90-121.

Champagne, Roger. "The Military Association of the Sons of Liberty." New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 41 (July 1955), pp. 338-350.

Clough, Wilson O. "Rationale of a Revolution, 1776." Midwest Quarterly, 23 (Winter 1982), pp. 215-228.

Colburn, H. Trevor. The Lamp of Experience: whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.

Cornish, R. T. "A Vision of Empire: The Development of British Opinion Regarding the American Colonial Empire, 1730-1770." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of London, 1987.

Cunningham, Carol R. "The Southern Royal Governors and the Coming of the American Revolution, 1763-1776." Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1984.

Curry, Richard Orr. "Lord Dunmore and the West: A Re-evaluation." West Virginia History, 19 (July 1958), pp. 231-243.

Dawson, Henry B. "The First Blood Shed in the American Revolution. The Battle of Golden Hill." Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 5 (January 1869), pp. 1-28.

DeVaro, Lawrence Joseph, Jr. "The Impact of the Gaspee Affair on the Coming of the Revolution, 1772-1773." Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1973.

-----. "The Gaspee Affair as Conspiracy." Rhode Island History, 32 (November 1973), pp. 107-121.

Dickerson, Oliver M. The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951.

Ferguson, E. James. The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Fitch, Keith William. "American Nationalism, 1763-1776: A Case Study of the Movement in the Colony of New York." Ph.D. Dissertation, Purdue University, 1972.

Freiberg, Malcolm. Prelude to Purgatory: Thomas Hutchinson in Provincial Massachusetts Politics, 1760-1770. New York: Garland, 1990.

Gerlach, Don R. "A Note on the Quartering Act of 1774." New England Quarterly, 39 (March 1966), pp. 80-88.

Gerlach, Larry R. "Soldiers and Citizens: The British Army in New Jersey on the Eve of the Revolution." New Jersey History, 93 (Spring-Summer 1975), pp. 5-36.

Gipson, Lawrence Henry. The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775. New York: Harper and Row, 1954.

-----. "The American Revolution as an Aftermath of the Great War for the Empire, 1754-1763." Political Science Quarterly, 65 (March 1950), pp. 86-104.

Gordon, Colin. "Crafting a Usable Past: Consensus, Ideology, and Historians of the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 46 (October 1989), pp. 671-695.

Gorn, Michael Herman. "To Preserve Good Humor and Perfect Harmony: Guy Carleton and the Governing of Quebec, 1766-1774." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 1978.

Greene, Evarts Boutell. Revolutionary Generation, 1763-1790. New York: Macmillan, 1943.

Greene, Jack P. "The South Carolina Quartering Dispute, 1757-1758." South Carolina Historical Magazine, 60 (October 1959), pp. 193-204.

Haw, James. "Patronage, Politics, and Ideology, 1753-1762: A Prelude to Revolution in Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine, 85 (Fall 1990), pp. 236-255.

Henry, William Wirt, editor. "An Unpublished Letter from Silas Deane to Patrick Henry." Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 7 (January 1870), pp. 22-26.

Holton, Woody. "The Revolt of the Ruling Class: The Influence of Indians, Merchants, and Laborers on the Virginia Gentry's Break With England." Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, 1990.

Hurt, N. Franklin. "Growth of Local Action During The British Military Rule at Detroit: 1760-1774." Michigan History, 40 (December 1956), pp. 451-464.

Huston, John W. "The British Evacuation of Fort Pitt, 1772." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 48 (October 1965), pp. 317-329.

Jellison, Richard M., editor. Society, Freedom, and Conscience: The American Revolution in Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1976.

Johnson, James M. "'Not a Single Soldier in the Province': The Military Establishment of Georgia and the Coming of the American Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation: Duke University, 1980.

Kammen, Michael. A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics and the American Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968.

-----. Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the Politics of Mercantilism. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970.

Klein, Milton M. The American Whig: William Livingston of New York. New York: Garland, 1990.

Klingelhofer, Herbert E. "The Cautious Revolution: Maryland and the Movement Toward Independence: 1774-1776." Maryland Historical Magazine, 60 (September 1965), pp. 261-313.

Knollenberg, Bernhard. Origin of the American Revolution, 1759-1766. New York: Macmillan, 1960.

-----. "Did Samuel Adams Provoke the Boston Tea Party and the Clash at Lexington?" American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, New Ser., 70 (October 1960), pp. 493-503.

Kurtz, Stephen G., and James H. Hutson, editors. Essays on the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973.

Labaree, Benjamin Woods. The Boston Tea Party. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

-----. "The Idea of American Independence: The British View, 1774-1776." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 82 (1970), pp. 3-20.

Labaree, Leonard W. Royal Government in America, A Study of the British Colonial System Before 1763. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930.

-----, editor. Royal Instructions to British Colonial Governors, 1670-1776. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1935.

Leonard, Thomas C. "News for a Revolution: the Expose in America, 1768-1773." Journal of American History, 67 (June 1980), pp. 26-40.

Lucas, Stephen Edwin. "Rhetoric and the Coming of the Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765-1776: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Protest and Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1973.

McCurry, Allan J. "Joseph Hewes and Independence." North Carolina Historical Review, 40 (October 1963), pp. 455-464.

Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of An Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

Main, Jackson Turner. The Upper House in Revolutionary America, 1763-1788. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Malone, Joseph J. Pine Trees and Politics: the Naval Stores and Forest Policy in Colonial New England, 1691-1775. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964.

Marshall, Peter. "Colonial Protest and Imperial Retrenchment: Indian Policy 1764-1768." Journal of American Studies, 5 (April 1971), pp. 1-17.

May, W. E. "The Gaspee Affair." Mariner's Mirror, 63 (May 1977), pp. 129-136.

Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1943.

Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.

Morris, Richard B. The American Revolution Reconsidered. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

-----. "Class Struggle and the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 19 (January 1962), pp. 3-29.

Namier, Lewis. The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III. 2d Edition. London: Macmillan, 1957.

-----. England in the Age of the American Revolution. 2d Edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961.

Nelson, Paul David. "William Tryon Confronts the American Revolution, 1771-1780." Historian, 53 (Winter 1991), pp. 267-284.

Nelson, William H. "The Revolutionary Character of the American Revolution." American Historical Review, 70 (July 1965), pp. 998-1014.

Neuenschwander, John A. The Middle Colonies and the Coming of the American Revolution. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1973.

Oaks, Robert F. "Philadelphia Merchants and the First Continental Congress." Pennsylvania History, 40 (April 1973), pp. 149-166.

-----. "The Impact of British Western Policy on the Coming of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 101 (April 1977), pp. 171-189.

O'Connor, John E. "William Patterson and the Ideological Origins of the Revolution in New Jersey." New Jersey History, 94 (Spring 1976), pp. 5-22.

Palfrey, John G., editor. "An Alphabetical List of the Sons of Liberty who dined at Liberty Tree, Dorchester Aug. 14, 1769." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 11 (August 1869), pp. 140-142.

Page, Elwin L. "The King's Powder, 1774." New England Quarterly, 18 (March 1945), pp. 83-92.

-----. "What Happened to the King's Powder?" Historical New Hampshire, 19 (Summer 1964), pp. 28-33.

Pares, Richard. King George III and the Politicians. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953.

Parry, J. H. "American Independence: The View from the West Indies." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 87 (1975), pp. 14-31.

Pencak, William. "Thomas Hutchinson's Fight Against Naval Impressment." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 132 (January 1978), pp. 25-36.

Perry, Edwin M. "Before the Troops: Sermons to Militias 1763-1775." Military Chaplain's Review, November 1987, pp. 9-22.

Reed, Robert Patrick. "Loyalists, Patriots, and Trimmers: The Committee System in the American Revolution, 1774-1776." Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 1988.

Reid, John Philip. In Defence of the Law: The Standing-Army Controversy, the Two Constitutions, and the Coming of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Ritcheson, Charles R. British Politics and the American Revolution. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954.

Rogers, Alan. Empire and Liberty: American Resistance to British Authority 1755-1763. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

-----. "Colonial Opposition to the Quartering of Troops During the French and Indian War." Military Affairs, 34 (February 1970), pp. 7-11.

Rogers, George C., Jr. "The Charleston Tea Party: The Significance of December 3, 1773." South Carolina Historical Magazine, 75 (July 1974), pp. 153-168.

Ryerson, Richard Alan. "Leadership in Crisis. The Radical Committees of Philadelphia and the Coming of the Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1765-1776: A Study in the Revolutionary Process." Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1972.

Sainsbury, John. Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America, 1769-1782. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776. New York: Columbia University Press, 1918.

-----. Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.

Sheps, Arthur. "The American Revolution and the Transformation of English Republicanism." Historical Reflections, 2 (Summer 1975), pp. 3-28.

Shy, John. Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.

-----. "Quartering His Majesty's Forces in New Jersey." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 78 (April 1960), pp. 82-94.

Skemp, Sheila. "Newport's Stamp Act Rioters: Another Look." Rhode Island History, 47 (May 1989), pp. 41-59.

Sosin, Jack M. Whitehall and the Wilderness: The Middle West in British Colonial Policy, 1760-1775. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.

-----. Agents and Merchants: British Colonial Policy and the Origins of the American Revolution, 1763-1775. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965.

Stout, Harry S. "Religion, Communications, and the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 34 (October 1977), pp. 519-541.

Stout, Neil R. The Royal Navy in America, 1760-1775: A Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1973.

Stuart, Reginald C. "'For the Lord Is a Man of Warr': The Colonial New England View of War and the American Revolution." Journal of Church and State, 23 (Autumn 1981), pp. 519-532.

Thomas, Peter D. G. The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the American Revolution 1767-1773. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

-----. "New Light on the Commons Debate of 1763 on the American Army." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 28 (January 1981), pp. 110-112.

Toohey, Robert Eugene. "British Radical Solutions to Imperial Problems 1774-1776." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1975.

Tucker, Louis Leonard. "Centers of Sedition: Colonial Colleges and the American Revolution." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 91 (1979), pp. 16-34.

Tucker, Robert W., and David C. Hendrickson. The Fall of the First British Empire: Origins of the War of American Independence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Tyler, John W. Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution. Boston: Northwestern University Press, 1986.

Ubbelohde, Carl. The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.

Villers, David H. "The Smyth Horses Affair and the Association." South Carolina Historical Magazine, 70 (July 1969), pp. 137-148.

Walsh, Richard. "The Charleston Mechanics: A Brief Study, 1760-1776." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 60 (July 1959), pp. 123-144.

Webster, Elanor M. "Insurrection at Fort Loudoun in 1765: Rebellion or Preservation of Peace?" Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 47 (April 1964), pp. 125-139.

Weir, Robert M. "A Most Important Epocha"; The Coming of the Revolution in South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.

Wickwire, Franklin B. British Subministers and Colonial America, 1763-1783. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Wilderson, Paul, editor. "The Raids on Fort William and Mary: Some New Evidence." Historical New Hampshire, 30 (Fall 1975), pp. 178-202.

-----, editor. "John Wentworth's Narrative of the Raids on Fort William and Mary." Historical New Hampshire, 32 (Winter 1977), pp. 228-236.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

-----. "Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 23 (January 1966), pp. 3-32.

Zobel, Hiller B. The Boston Massacre. New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1970.

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