LibGuides: Modern World History: American

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The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765-1800 by Aaron N. Coleman
Tracing the political, ideological, and constitutional arguments from the imperial crisis with Britain and the drafting of the Articles of Confederation to the ratification of the Constitution and the political conflict between Federalists and Jeffersonians, The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800 reveals the largely forgotten importance of state sovereignty to American constitutionalism. Contrary to modern popular perceptions and works by other academics, the Founding Fathers did not establish a constitutional system based upon national popular sovereignty nor a powerful national government designed to fulfill a grand philosophical purpose.
The American Revolution : A Concise History by Robert Allison
ISBN: 9780195312959
In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a cohesive synthesis of the military, diplomatic, political, social, and intellectual aspects of the Revolution, paying special attention to the Revolution's causes and consequences. The book recreates the tumultuous events of the 1760s and 1770s that led to revolution, such as the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, as well as the role the Sons of Liberty played in turning resistance into full-scale revolt.
American Revolution Considered As a Social Movement by John Franklin Jameson
ISBN: 9780691005508
Jameson's book was among the first to bring social analysis to the fore of American history. Examining the effects the American Revolution had on business, intellectual and religious life, slavery, land ownership, and interactions between members of different social classes, Jameson showed the extent of the social reforms won at home during the war. By looking beyond the political and probing the social aspects of this seminal event.

Our First Civil War : patriots and loyalists in the American Revolution by H. W. Brands
Call no: E210 .B736 2021 PRINT ONLY
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently-- and soon heard themselves denounced as traitors for not having betrayed the country where they grew up. Brands reminds us that before America could win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to win a bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
Call no: E209 .W65 1993 PRINT ONLY
Examines colonial society and the transformations in colonial life that resulted from the republican tendencies brought to the surface by the Revolution.
Scars of Independence : America's violent birth by Holger Hoock
ISBN: 9780804137287
Call No: E209 .H657 2017 PRINT ONLY
The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war--one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand. In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution.

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Modern World History

American & French Revolutions

Dancing Before Storms : Five Revolutions That Made Today's World.

The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution

General and Madame de Lafayette : partners in liberty's cause in the American and French Revolutions

Scholarly Sources within the JSCC Library