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)

Advanced Keyword Search

Previous | War Periods | Next

Displaying 241 - 280 of 490
Hagemann, Karen. "The Military and Masculinity: Gendering the History of the French Wars, 1792–1815." In War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815, edited by Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, 331-352. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hagemann, Karen, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hagemann, Karen. "Venus und Mars: Reflexionen zur einer Geschlechtergeschichte von Militär und Krieg." In Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger: Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel, edited by Karen Hagemann and Pröve, Ralf, 13-48. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1998.
Hartley, Janet M., Paul Keenan, and Dominic Lieven. Russia and the Napoleonic Wars. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Hartmann, Anja, and Heuser, Beatrice. War, Peace, and World Orders in European History. London: Routledge, 2001.
Harvey, Robert. Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810-1830. London: John Murray, 2000.
Haulman, Kate. The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Heineman, Elizabeth D. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011.
Helg, Aline. Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Herrera, Ricardo A. American War of Independence. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Heuer, Jennifer Ngaire. The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Heuman, Gad, and Trevor Burnard. The Routledge History of Slavery. London: Routledge, 2011.
Heuser, Beatrice. "Guibert: Prophet of Total War?" In War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815, edited by Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, 49-67. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2013.
Hewitson, Mark. Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Higman, Barry William. A Concise History of the Caribbean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hippler, Thomas. "The French Army, 1789-1914: Volunteers, Pressed Soldiers, and Conscripts." In Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500-2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher, 419-446. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.
Hippler, Thomas. "Volunteers of the French Revolutionary Wars: Myths and Reinterpretations." In War Volunteering in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Second World War, edited by Christine G. Krüger and Sonja Levsen, 23-39. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Hoff, Joan. Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. New York: New York University Press, 1991.
Hohrath, Daniel, and Sönke Neitzel. Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert In Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. The German Atrocities in the War of 1870/71 Using the Example of the Bavarians. Paderborn, Germany: Schöningh, 2008.
Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.
Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Hopkin, David M. Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press for The Royal Historical Society, 2003.
Hopkin, David. "The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars." In Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820, edited by Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall, 77-98. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Horne, John. "Defeat and Memory in Modern History." In Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era, edited by Jenny Macleod, 11-29. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Hufton, Olwen H. Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Ireland, Owen S. Sentiments of a British-American Woman: Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.
Irvin, Benjamin H. Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
James, Leighton S. "Invasion and Occupation: Civilian-Military Relations in Central Europe during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars." In Civilians and War in Europe, 1618–1815, edited by Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith, 225-240. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: The Dial Press, 1938.
James, Leighton S. Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Pages