Selected Literature

1. Literature on Europe between 1750 and 1850

Secondary Literature
Primary Document Collections
Primary Documents
Electronic Primary Documents

2. Literature on the Americas between 1750 and 1850

Secondary Literature
Primary Document Collections
Primary Documents

3. Literature: Art in the Age of Wars and Revolutions

4. Literature: Music in the Age of Wars and Revolutions


1. Literature on Europe between 1750 and 1850

Secondary Literature

  • Becker-Cantarino, Barbara (ed.), German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: The Enlightenment and Sensibility. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005.
  • Berlanstein, Lenard R., The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-century Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 1992
  • Best, Geoffrey, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870. London and Buffalo: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.
  • Blanning, Timothy C.W., The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802, London and New York: Arnold, 1996.
  • Blanning, Timothy C.W., Joseph II, London, New York: Longman, 1994.
  • Broers, Michael, Europe after Napoleon: Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996.
  • Broers, Michael, Europe under Napoleon, 1799-1815. London and New York: Arnold, 1996.
  • Caine, Barbara and Glenda Sluga, Gendering European History, 1780-1920. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 2000, pp. 7-86.
  • Claeys, Gregory, The Chartist Movement in Britain, 1838-1850. London: Brookfield, 2001.
  • Cookson, John E., The British Armed Nation 1793-1815, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Doyle, William, The French Revolution. A Very Short Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2001
  • Esdaile, Charles J., The French Wars, 1792-1815. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
  • Esdaile, Charles, The Wars of Napoleon, London and New York: Longman, 1995.
  • Frevert, Ute, A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society. Transl. by Andrew Boreham with Daniel Brückenhaus. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004.
  • Gates, David, The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815. London ad New York: Arnold, 1997.
  • Gay. Peter, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
  • Godineau, Dominique: The Women of Paris and their French Revolution. University of California Press, 1998.
  • Grab, Alexander, Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.
  • Hagemann, Karen, “A Valorous Volk Family: The Nation, the Military, and the Gender Order in Prussia in the Time of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars, 1806-15,” in: Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann and Catherine Hall (eds.): Gendered Nations. Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century, Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2000, S. 179-205.
  • Hagemann, Karen, Female Patriots: Women, War and the Nation in Prussian during the Anti-Napoleonic Wars, in: Gender & History Gender & History, 16/3, 2004, pp. 396-424.
  • Herzog, Dagmar, Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-revolutionary Baden. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
  • Hill, David, ed., The Literature of the Sturm und Drang. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003.
  • Hobsbawm, Eric J., The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. London: Vintage 1996 (first edition: 1962).
  • Hufton, Olwen H., Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
  • Hunt, Lynn, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
  • Hunt, Lynn, The Family Romance of the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
  • Kallen, Stuart A. (ed.), The Age of Revolution. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 2002.
  • Körner, Axel (ed.), 1848 - A European Revolution?: International Ideas and National Memories of 1848. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
  • Landes, Joan B., Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001.
  • Landes, Joan B., Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1988.
  • Mahoney, Dennis, ed., The Literature of German Romanticism. Camden House, 2004.
  • Marchand, Suzanne, Down from Olympus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
  • Melton, James Van Horn, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Micale, Mark S. and Robert L. Dietle (eds.), Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.
  • Offen, Karen M., European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
  • Outram, Dorinda, The Enlightenment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Owen Connelly, Napoleon's Satellite Kingdoms: Managing Conquered Peoples, Malabar, Fla.: R.E. Krieger, 1990.
  • Parkhurst Ferguson, Priscilla, Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-century City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Pinkney, David H., Decisive Years in France, 1840-1847. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986.
  • Pinkney, David H., Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1958.
  • Pinkney, David H., The French Revolution of 1830. Princeton N.J., Princeton University Press, 1972.
  • Porter, Roy, The Enlightenment. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  • Rendall, Jane, The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1789-1860. New York: Schoecken Books, 1982 (second edition: 1990).
  • Richter, Simon (ed.), The Literature of Weimar Classicism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005.
  • Rowe, Michael, From Reich to State. The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Schwarzkopf, Jutta, Women in the Chartist Movement. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
  • Sperber, Jonathan, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Sweetman, John, The Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution, 1700-1850. London and New York: Longman, 1998.

Primary Document Collections (Europe)

  • 1848. Politics, Propaganda, Information and Entertainment from the Printing Press. Ed. by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin). Munich and New Providence, NJ: K.G. Saur, 1998 (book and disc)
  • Bell, Susan G. and Karen M. Offen (eds.), Women, The Family and Freedom: The Debate in Documents. vol. 1: 1750-1880; vol. 2: 1880-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983.
  • DiCaprio, Lisa and Merry E. Wiesner (eds.), Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women’s History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
  • Hunt, Lynn (ed.), The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History. Boston: Bedford Books, 1996.
  • Kadish, Doris Y. and Françoise Massardier-Kenney (eds.), Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783-1823 (Olympe de Gouges; Madame de Staël; duchesse de Claire de Durfort Duras). Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994.
  • Levy, Darline Gay, Harriet Branson Applewhite and Mary Durham Johnson (eds.), Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795: Selected documents translated with notes and commentary. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
  • Macartney, C. A. (Carlile Aylmer)(ed.), The Habsburg and Hohenzollern Dynasties in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, New York: Walker [1970],
  • Piepke, Susan L., Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): The Works and Life of a German-American activist including English translations of "Woman in conflict with society" and "Broken chains". Bern, Oxford, New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
  • Whittle, Ruth, Debbie Pinfold, Voices of Rebellion: Political Writing by Malwida von Meysenbug, Fanny Lewald, Johanna Kinkel and Louise Aston. Bern, Oxford, New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

Primary Documents (Europe)

  • Arndt, Ernst Moritz (1769-1860), "What is the German's Fatherland?" (Poem), transl. by Theodore Sutro. [New York]: John Sarell, 1870.
  • Arndt, Ernst Moritz, Spirit of the Times. London: W.M. Thiselton, 1808.
  • Arndt, Ernst Moritz, The Life and Adventures of Ernest Moritz Arndt, the Singer of the German Fatherland. Boston, 1879.
  • Balzac, Honoré de, Pere Goriot. [Powerfully dramatic account of the corrosive effects of money and Parisian society on familial bonds.]
  • Blake, William, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
  • Boswell, James, Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763
  • Brandt, Heinrich von, In the Legions of Napoleon: The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808-1813 (1999).
  • Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, The Marriage of Figaro, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine, London, Nick Hern Books, 2001, Acte 1: p.3-30 and Acte V: p. 122-127.
  • Dickens, Charles, Hard Times.
  • Edwards, Sherman. 1776. Libretto. 1776: A New Musical. Book by Peter Stone; music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. New York 1969
  • Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814), The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, transl. by William Smith. London: J. Chapman, 1948/49.
  • Freiligrath, Ferdinand (1810-1867), Poems, transl. by Maximillian Friedrich Liddell. Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1949.
  • Glover, Gareth, Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: the unpublished correspondence by Allied officers from the Siborne Papers. London: Greenhill 2004.
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang v. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin edition)
  • Gouges, Olympe de, The Rights of Woman. London: Pythia, 1989 (first published in French in 1791).
  • Heine, Heinrich, Deutschland: A Winter's Tale: Bilingual Edition, tr. T. J. Reed (Angel Books, 1997)
  • Jahn, Friedrich Ludwig (1778-1852), A Treatise on Gymnasticks, Transl. by Charles Beck. Northampton, Mass., 1828
  • Kant, Immanuel, "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" in Kant, Political Writings, trans. H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Kleist, Heinrich von, Prince Friedrich von Homburg. Oberon Books, 2000.
  • LaRoche, Sophia von, The History of Lady Sophia von Sternheim. SUNY Press, 1991.
  • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, Nathan the Wise, trans. Ronald B. Schechter. Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.
  • Marx, Karl (1818-1883), The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition, by Erich J. Hobsbawm. London and New York: Verso, 1998.
  • Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, The Revolution of 1848-49: Articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. New York, International Publishers, 1972.
  • Ménétra, Jacques-Louis, Journal of My Life (1986).
  • Nadezhda Durova, The Cavalry Maiden. Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars, transl., and introduced by Mary Fleming Zirin. Blomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989.
  • Schaumann, August Ludolf Friedrich, On the Road with Wellington: the Diary of a War Commissary. London: Greenhill Books, 1999.
  • Schiller, Friedrich, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, trans. Elizabeth M. Wilkinson and L.A. Willoughby, Clarendon Press, 1982.
  • Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text, edited by D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1998).
  • Staël, Madame de (1766-1816),Madame de Staël on Politics, Literature, and National Character. Ed. by Morroe Berger. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1964.
  • Staël, Madame de, An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Staël. Ed. by Vivian Folkenflik. New York : Columbia University Press, 1987.
  • Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910), War and Peace. Transl. by Louise and Aylmer Maude, ed. Henry Gifford. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
  • Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, "Letters on England" (1778), on: www.online-literature.com/voltaire/letters_england/
  • Walter Jacob, The Diary of a Napoleonic foot Soldier, ed. and with an introduction by Marc Raeff. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
  • Wordsworth, William, Lyrical Ballads (1800).

Electronic Primary Documents (Europe)


2. Literature on the Americas between 1750 and 1850

Secondary Literature

  • Anderson, Fred, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Knopf, 2000
  • Bailyn, Bernard, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • Bethell, Leslie (ed.), The Independence of Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Breen, T. H., The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Calloway, Colin, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Cott, Nancy F., The Bonds of Womanhood: “Women's Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
  • Chasteen, John, Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. New York: Norton, 2001.
  • Chasteen, John, Americanos. Latin America’s Struggle for Independence, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Countryman, Edward, The American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
  • Davidson, Cathy N., Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Dowd, Gregory, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  • Dubois,Laurent, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Dunn, Susan, Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999.
  • Dubois,Laurent, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Fenn, Elizabeth, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
  • Flavell, Julie, and Stephen Conway, Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754-1815. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
  • Frey, Sylvia, Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
  • Geggus, David. “The Haitian Revolution.” In Franklin W, Knight and Colin A. Palmer (eds.), The Modern Caribbean. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989, pp. 21-50.
  • Gilbert, Felix, To the Farewell Address: Ideas about Early American Foreign Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
  • Gilje, Paul A., Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
  • Godechot, Jacques, France and the Atlantic Revolution of the Eighteenth Century, 1770-1799, trans. Herbert H. Rowen. New York: Free Press, 1965.
  • Gross, Robert, The Minutemen and their World. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
  • Guardino, Peter F. The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
  • Harvey, Robert, Liberators: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence, 1810-1830. London: John Murray, 2000.
  • Hendrickson, David C., Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003.
  • Hofstadter, Richard, The Idea of a Party System. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
  • Horn, James, Jan Ellen Lewis, and Peter S. Onuf (eds.), The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.
  • Higginbotham, Don, Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
  • Higginbotham, Don (ed.), George Washington Reconsidered. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia Press, 2001.
  • Higginbotham, Don, George Washington: Uniting a Nation. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
  • Higginbotham, Don, Revolution in America: Considerations & Comparisons. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.
  • Higginbotham, Don, War and Society in Revolutionary America: The Wider Dimensions of Conflict. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Holton, Woody, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
  • Juster, Susan, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelization in Revolutionary New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • Kerber, Linda K., Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
  • Knight, Alan, Mexico: The Colonial Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Kramer, Lloyd S., Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Lewis, Jan Ellen, and Peter S. Onuf (eds.), Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
  • Looby, Christopher, Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • Maier, Pauline, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Knopf, 1997.
  • Main, Jackson Turner, Political Parties before the Constitution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973.
  • McCoy, Drew R., The Last of the Fathers: James Madison & the Republican Legacy. New York: Cambridge, 1989.
  • McFarlane, Anthony, and Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Independence and Revolution in Spanish America: Perspectives and Problems. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1999.
  • Meyer, Michael C., William L. Sherman, and Susan M. Deeds (eds.), The Course of Mexican History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 (and older editions).
  • Middlekaupf, Robert, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • Nebenzahl, Kenneth, and Don Higginbotham, Atlas of the American Revolution. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1974.
  • O’Shaughnessy, Andrew, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
  • Rakove, Jack N., The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress. New York: Knopf,1979.
  • Rakove, Jack N., Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York: Knopf, 1996.
  • Raphael, Ray, A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. New York: Norton,2001.
  • Shy, John, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
  • Stern, Steve J., (ed.), Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World: 18th-20th Centuries. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
  • Taylor, Alan, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
  • Thompson, Peter, Rum Punch & Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
  • Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
  • Van Buskirk, Judith, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
  • Van Young, Eric, “Islands in the Storm: Quiet Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era,” Past and Present 118 (Feb. 1988), pp. 120-155.
  • Waldstreicher, David, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
  • White, Shane, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City. 1770-1810. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
  • Wood, Gordon, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin, 2004.
  • Wood, Gordon, The American Revolution: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
  • Wood, Gordon S., The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  • Wood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.

Primary Document Collections (Americas)

  • Berkin, Carol, and Leslie Horowitz (eds.), Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Documents in Early American History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.
  • Boyer,Richard, and Geoffrey Spurling (eds.), Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Burg, David F. (ed.), The American Revolution: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
  • Brown, Richard D. (ed.), Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1992.
  • Crary, Catherine S. (ed.), The Price of Loyalty: Tory Writings from the Revolutionary Era. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.
  • Davis, David Brion, and Steven Mintz(eds.), The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Dubois, Laurent, and John D. Garrigus (eds.), Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006.
  • Dudley, William (ed.), The American Revolution: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1992.
  • Hanke, Lewis, and Jane M. Rausch (eds.), People and Issues in Latin American History. New York: Markus Wiener, 1992.
  • Kierner, Cynthia A. (ed.), Revolutionary America, 1750-1815: Sources and Interpretation. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003.
  • Manning, William R., Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States Concerning the Independence of the Latin-American Nations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1925-26.
  • Miller, Elizabeth R. (ed.), The American Revolution: As Described by British Writers and the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser.Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1991.
  • Mills, Kenneth, William B. Taylor, and Sandra Lauderdale Graham (eds.), Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History.Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2002 .
  • Norton, Mary Beth, and Ruth M. Alexander (eds.), Major Problems in American Women’s History: Documents and Essays.Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1996.
  • Webster, Charles K. (ed.), Britain and the Independence of Latin America, 1812-1830: Select Documents from the Foreign Office Archives. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
  • Wilentz, Sean (ed.), Major Problems in the Early Republic, 1787-1848: Documents and Essays.Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1992.

Primary Documents (Americas)

  • The American Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights (various editions)
  • Adams, John, and Abigail Smith Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams, ed. Frank Shuffelton. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.
  • Allen, Ethan and Ira, Ethan and Ira Allen: Collected Works, ed J. Kevin Graffagnino. Benson, Vt.: Chalidze Publications, 1992.
  • Baby, François, Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams, ed. Michael P. Gabriel, trans. S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005.
  • Blacksnake, Governor, Chainbreaker’s War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution: An Authentic Narrative, ed. Jeanne Winston Adler. Hensonville, N.Y.: Black Dome Press, 2002.
  • Bloomfield, Joseph, Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield, ed. Mark E. Lender and James Kirby Martin. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1982.
  • Bolívar, Simón, El Libertador: Writings of Simón Bolívar, trans. Frederick H. Fornoff, ed. David Bushnell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Greene, Nathanael, The Papers of General Nathanael Greene, ed. Richard K. Showman, Margaret Cobb, and Robert E. McCarthy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976.
  • Hamilton, Alexander, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cooke. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961-87.
  • Howard, Thomas Phipps, The Haitian Journal of Lieutenant Howard, York Hussars, 1796-1798, ed. Roger Norman Buckley. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
  • Johnson, Uzal, Uzal Johnson, Loyalist Surgeon: A Revolutionary War Diary, ed. Bobby Gilmer Moss. Blacksburg, S.C.: Scotia Hibernia Press, 2000.
  • Jones, John Paul, John Paul Jones’ Memoir of the American Revolution Presented to King Louis XVI of France, trans. and ed. Gerard W. Gawalt. Washington: Library of Congress, 1979.
  • Lafayette, Marquis de, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790, ed. Stanley J. Idzerda et al. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977.
  • L’Ouverture, Toussaint, Mémoires de la vie de Toussaint L’Ouverture, trans. in J. R. Beard, Toussaint L'Ouverture: a biography and autobiography. DocSouth.
  • Lee, Henry, The Revolutionary War Memoirs of General Henry Lee, ed. Robert E. Lee. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
  • Martin, Joseph Plumb, A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin. New York: Signet Classics, 2001. (and other editions)
  • Prince, Christopher, Autobiography of a Yankee Mariner: Christopher Prince and the American Revolution, ed. Michael J. Crawford. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 2002.
  • Roberts, James, The Narrative of James Roberts: A Soldier under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: “A Battle which Cost me a Limb, some Blood, and Almost My Life.” DocSouth.
  • Scudder, William, The Journal of William Scudder, ed. F. J. Sypher. Ann Arbor: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 2005.
  • Seaver James E., Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
  • Smith, Venture, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty years in the United States of America. DocSouth.
  • Warren, Mercy Otis, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations, by Mrs. Mercy Warren. Boston: Manning and Loring, 1805.
  • Washington, George, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick. Washington: GPO, 1939.
  • Zeisberger, David, The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger, 1772-1781, ed. Herman Wellenreuther and Carola Wessel, trans. Julie Tomberlin Weber. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.

3. Literature: Art in the Age of Wars and Revolutions

  • Boime, Albert, A Social History of Art Volume I: Art in an Age of Revolution 1750-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Boime, Albert, A Social History of Art Volume II: Art in an Age of Bonapartism 1800-1815 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Boime, Albert, A Social History of Art Volume III: Art in an Age of Counterrevolution 1815-1848. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Brown, David Blayney, Romanticism. Art and Ideas. London; New York: Phaidon, 2001.
  • Eitner, Lorenz, ed., Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750-1850. Sources and Documents. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
  • Honour, Hugh. Neo-classicism. London ; New York: Penguin, 1977.
  • Honour, Hugh, Romanticism. New York : Harper & Row: Harper-Collins, Icon Editions, 1979.
  • Irwin, David, Neoclassicism. Art and Ideas. London: Phaidon, 1997.

4. Literature: Music in the Age of Wars and Revolutions

Secondary Literature

    Music and American Revolution

    • Camus, Raoul F., Military Music of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976.

    Music and French Revolution

    • Boyd, Malcolm, ed., Music and the French Revolution. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    • Charlton, David, “The Nineteenth Century: France” (segment on “The Revolution Years”), in The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera, ed. by Roger Parker. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 122–29.
    • Johnson, James H., Listening in Paris: A Cultural History. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1995.

    Europe, 1789-1848

    • Ringer, Alexander, ed., Music and Society: The Early Romantic Era Between Revolutions, 1789 and 1848. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1991.

Primary Documents

  • Yankee Doodle [there are reports by Lafayette that the Americans and French played the Yankee Doodle during battle to annoy the British and that it was performed after Yorktown as a victory tune]
  • The World Turned Upside Down [reportedly performed by the British when they surrendered at Yorktown, but that’s an apocryphal story, first told in the 1820s]
  • La Marseillaise
  • Le Chant du depart
  • Ça ira
  • Ludwig van Beethoven:
    Symphony no. 3 “Eroica,” in E-flat major, op. 55 (1803)
    Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria, op. 91 (1813)