Secondary Literature on the Age of the Revolutionary Wars

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added selected secondary literature on regions and themes that the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars included for this period are:

  • American Revolutionary Wars (1775–83)
  • French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars War (1792–1815)
  • Latin American Wars of Independence (1810–30)

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Puymège, Gérard de. Chauvin, le soldat-laboureur: contribution à l'étude des nationalismes. Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
Quataert, Jean H. Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Quintero, Inés. La criolla principal: María Antonia Bolivar, la hermana del Libertado. Caracas: Fundación Bigott, 2003.
Ramsey, Kate. The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Rendall, Jane. "Women Writing War and Empire: Gender, Poetry and Politics in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars." In Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830, edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, 265-283. Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Resch, John Phillips, and Walter L. Sargent. War & Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Robinson, Paul. Military Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Rodríguez, Jaime E. The Independence of Spanish America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Rogers, Dominique. "On the Road to Citizenship: The Complex Route to Integration of the Free People of Color in the Two Capitals of Saint-Domingue." In The World of the Haitian Revolution, edited by David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering, 65-78. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Winning of the West. New York: Putnam.
Rothenberg, Gunther E. Napoleon’s Great Adversaries: The Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army, 1792–1814. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Rothenberg, Gunther. The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1978.
Rothenberg, Gunther. The Napoleonic Wars. London: Cassell, 2001.
Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Ruddiman, John A. Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Ruff, Julius R. Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 In New approaches to European history ;; 22; Variation: New approaches to European history ;; 22. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Sansay, Leonora, and Michael J. Drexler. Secret History, or, the Horrors of St. Domingo; and, Laura. Peterborough, Canada: Broadview , 2007.
Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. London: BBC Books, 2005.
Scheina, Robert. Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-1899. Vol. 1. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003.
Schroeder, Paul W. The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Semley, Lorelle. To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Semmel, Stuart. Napoleon and the British. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
Serna, Pierre, Antonino De Francesco, and Judith A. Miller. Republics at War, 1776-1840 Revolutions, Conflicts, and Geopolitics in Europe and the Atlantic World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Shoemaker, Nancy. Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Shumway, Jeffrey M. The Case of the Ugly Suitor & Other Histories of Love, Gender, & Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Shy, John. Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present. New York: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 2013.
Sked, Alan. Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011.

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