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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Delmas, Jean. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1715 à 1871, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 2. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Desan, Suzanne. The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
Díaz, Arlene J. Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Divall, Carole. Wellington's Worst Scrape: The Burgos Campaign, 1812. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military, 2012.
Drévillon, Hervé, Bertrand Fonck, and Michel Roucaud. Guerres et armées napoléoniennes: nouveaux regards. Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2013.
Drévillon, Hervé, and Olivier Wieviorka. Histoire militaire de la France: Des Mérovingiens au Second Empire. Vol. 1. Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2018.
Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Dubois, Laurent. "Citizen Soldiers: Emancipation and Military Service in the Revolutionary French Caribbean." In Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age, edited by Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan, 233-254. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
Dubois, Laurent. "Gendered Freedom: Citoyennes and War in the Revolutionary French Caribbean." In Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830, edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, 58-70. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Dudink, Stefan, Karen Hagemann, and John Tosh. Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Dudink, Stefan, and Karen Hagemann. "Masculinity in Politics and War in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, 3-21. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Dudink, Stefan. "Masculinity, Effeminacy, Time: Conceptual Change in the Dutch Age of Democratic Revolutions." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and Josh Tosh, 77-95. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Dudink, Stefan, Karen Hagemann, and Anna Clark. Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Dueñas-Vargas, Guiomar. Del amor y otras pasiones: élites, política y familia en Bogotá, 1778-1870. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2014.
Duhet, Paule-Marie. Les Femmes et la Révolution, 1789-1794. Paris: Julliard, 1971.
Duparcq, Édouard de La Barr. Histoire Militaire des Femmes. Paris: Édouard de la Barre Duparcq, 1873.
DuVal, Kathleen. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. New York: Random House, 2015.
Dwyer, Philip. Napoleon and Europe. Harlow: Longman, 2001.
Earle, Rebecca. "Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Columbia, 1810-1830." In Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America, edited by Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneaux, 127-142. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
Earle, Rebecca A. Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-25. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2000.
Earle, Rebecca. The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
Edgerton, Robert B. Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.
Eisdale, Charles. Napoleon’s Wars: An International History, 1803–1815. London: Allen Lane, 2007.
Ellis, Alfred B. The History of the First West India Regiment. London: Chapman, 1885.
Epstein, Anne R., and Rachel G. Fuchs. Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective: Agency, Space, Borders. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Esdaile, Charles J., and Philip Freeman. Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814: Occupation, Siege, Aftermath. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Esdaile, Charles. Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2004.
Esdaile, Charles. Peninsular Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military, 2008.
Esdaile, Charles J. Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Esdaile, Charles J. The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.
Esdaile, Charles J. The Wars of Napoleon. London: Longman, 1995.
Esdaile, Charles J. Women in the Peninsular War. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.
Eustace, Nicole. 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Eyck, Gunther F. Loyal Rebels: Andreas Hofer and the Tyrolean Uprising of 1809. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.
Fahrmeir, Andreas. Citizenship: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Concept. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

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