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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Slater, Sandra, and Fay A. Yarbrough. Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400–1850. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
R. Snyder, Claire. Citizen-Soldiers and Manly Warriors: Military Service and Gender in the Civic Republican Tradition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
Sterner, Doris M. In and Out of Harm's Way: A History of the Navy Nurse Corps. Seattle: Peanut Butter Publishing , 1997.
Stevens, Carol B. "Warfare on Land." In The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350–1750, edited by Hamish Scott, 561-590. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Stoker, Donald J., Frederick C. Schneid, and Harold D. Blanton. Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs?. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2006.
Strachan, Hew. European Armies and the Conduct of War. London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983.
Struck, Bernhard. "Conquered Territories and Entangled Histories: The Perception of Franco-German and German-Polish Borderlands in German Travelogues, 1792–1820." In War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, edited by Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann, 95-113. Basingstoke, UK ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Taylor, Philip. Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Terragno, Rodolfo H. Josefa: biografía de María Josefa Morales de los Ríos, la amiga secreta de San Martín. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2015.
Thoral, Marie-Cécile. From Valmy to Waterloo: France at War, 1792-1815. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Toler, Pamela D. Women Warriors: An Unexpected History. Boston: Beacon Press, 2020.
Tombs, Robert, and Isabelle Tombs. That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present. London: William Heinemann, 2006.
Tonchu, Elena. Zhenshchina i voina. Moscow: TONChU, 2009.
Townsend, Charles. The Oxford History of Modern War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Tranchant, Jules, and Alfred Ladimir. Les femmes militaires de la France: Depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Cournol, 1866.
Traugott, Mark. The Insurgent Barricade. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.
Treadwell, Mattie E. The Women's Army Corps. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1953.
Ulbrich, Claudia. "Deutungen von Krieg in den Lebenserinnerungen der Regula Engel." In Krieg und Umbruch in Mitteleuropa um 1800: Erfahrungsgeschichte(n) auf dem Weg in eine neue Zeit, edited by Ute Planert, 297-314. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2009.
Uribe-Uran, Victor M. Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Families, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Urquidi, José Macedonio. Bolivianas ilustres: heroinas, escritoras, artistas; Estudios biográficos y críticos. La Paz, Bolivia: Escuela tipográfica salesiana, 1918.
Van Buskirk, Judith. Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Vergès, Françoise. Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Métissage. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Vidal, Cécile. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Villalobos, Joyce Contreras. Mercedes Marín del Solar (1804–1866): Obras reunida. Santiago, Chile: Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos, 2015.
Vogel, Jakob. "Stramme Gardisten, temperamentvolle Tirailleurs und anmutige Damen: Geschlechterbilder im deutschen und französischen Kult der "Nation in Waffen"." In Militär und Gesellschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Ute Frevert, 245-262. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1997.
Vollendorf, Lisa, and Grady C. Wray. "Gender in the Atlantic World: Women’s Writing in Iberia and Latin America." In Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic, edited by Harald E. Braun and Lisa Vollendorf, 99-116. Leiden ; Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2013.
Vuic, Kara D. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military In Routeledge Histories. New York; London: Routledge, 2018.
Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen. Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Watelet, Marcel, and Pierre Couvreur. Waterloo, lieu de mémoire européenne (1815-2000): histoire et controverses. Louvain-la-Neuve: Association franco-européenne de Waterloo, 2000.
Watson, Samuel. Warfare in the USA, 1784-1861. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Wawro, Geoffrey. Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914. London: Routledge, 2005.
Way, Peter. "'The Scum of Every Country, the Refuse of Mankind': Recruiting the British Army in the Eighteenth Century." In Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500–2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher, 291-330. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.
Wenk, Silke. "Gendered Representations of the Nation’s Past and Future." In Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Blom, Ida, Karen Hagemann and Catherine Hall, 63-77. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000.
Wexler, Berta. Las heroínas altoperuanas como expresión de un colectivo 1809–1825: Juana de Azurduy y las mujeres en la revolución altoperuana. Santa Fe, Argentina: Instituto Superior del Profesorado No. 3 Eduardo Laferriere, 2000.
White, Sophie. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019.

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