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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Cardoza, Thomas. Intrepid Women: Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Carranza, Adolfo. Patricias Argentinas. Buenos Aires: Sociedad de Patricias Argentinas, 1910.
Carroll, Stuart. Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Cayton, Andrew R. L., and Fredrika J. Teute. Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750–1830. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Čerpinska, Anita. "Riga Export Trade at the Time of the Continental Blockade, 1807–1812." In Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences, edited by Katherine Aaslestad and Johan Joor, 241-258. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Chambers, Sarah C. From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780–1854. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Charters, Erica, Eve Rosenhaft, and Hannah Smith. Civilians and War in Europe, 1618-1815. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Chasteen, John Charles. Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Cherpak, Evelyn. "The Participation of Women in the Independence Movement in Gran Colombia, 1780-1830." In Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives, edited by Asunción Lavrín, 219-234. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Chickering, Roger, and Stig Förster. War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815 In War in an Age of Revolutions, 1775-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Childs, Matt. The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Clark, Emily. American Quadroon: The Strange History of Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Clyman, Toby W., and Judith Vowles. Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Cole, Laurence, Christa Hämmerle, and Martin Scheutz. Glanz—Gewalt—Gehorsam: Militär und Gesellschaft in der Habsburgermonarchie (1800 bis 1918). Essen: Klartext, 2011.
Cole, Laurence. Military Culture and Popular Patriotism in Late Imperial Austria. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1873. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
Colwill, Elizabeth. ""Fêtes de l’hymen, fêtes de la liberté": Marriage, Manhood, and Emancipation in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue." In The World of the Haitian Revolution, edited by David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering, 125-155. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Colwill, Elizabeth. "Freedwomen’s Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue." In Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830, edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, 71-89. Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Conway, Stephen. A Short History of the American Revolutionary War. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Cookson, J. E. The British Armed Nation, 1793-1815. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1997.
Cooper, Dana, and Claire Phelan. Motherhood and War: International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Cooper, Anna Julia, and Frances Richardson Keller. Slavery and the French and Haitian Revolutionists. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Cooper, Benjamin. Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.
Cox, Caroline. A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Cox, Caroline. "The Continental Army." In The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution, edited by Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky, 161-176. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Creasy, Sir Edward She. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo. New York: International Book Company, 1851.
Crépin, Annie. Défendre la France: Les Français, la guerre et le service militaire, de la guerre de sept ans à Verdun. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005.
Crépin, Annie. "The Army of the Republic: New Warfare and a New Army." In Republics at War, 1776–1840: Revolutions, Conflicts and Geopolitic Sin Europe and the Atlantic World, edited by Pierre Serna, Antonino De Francesco and Judith A. Miller, 131-147. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Crespo, Alberto R., René Arze Aguirre, Florencia B. De Romero, and Mary Money. La Vida cotidiana en La Paz durante la guerra de la Independencia, 1800-1825. La Paz: Editorial de la Universidad de San Andrés, 1975.
Cruz, Juan Luis Ossa. Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808-1826. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Cubells, Monique. La Révolution française: La guerre et la frontière. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2000.
Daly, Gavin. "Plunder on the Peninsular: British Soldiers and Local Civilians during the Peninsular War, 1808–1813." In Civilians and War in Europe, 1618–1815, edited by Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith, 209-240. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Daly, Gavin. The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
David, Andress. The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Davies, Catherine, Claire Brewster, and Hilary Owen. South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006.
Davies, Catherine. "The Gender Order of Postwar Politics: Comparing Spanish South America and Spain, 1810s-1850s." In War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions, edited by Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Michael Rowe, 182-199. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
de Baecque, Antoine. The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
de la Roche, José Joaqúin P. Los Parises: Una familia de próceres. Bogotá: Juan Casis, 1919.

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