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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Jardin, Étienne. Music and War in Europe: From French Revolution to WWI. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2016.
Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Johnson, Sherry. "Maintaining the Home Front: Widows, Wives and War in Late Eighteenth Century Cuba." In Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830, edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, 206-224. Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Johnson, Rashauna. Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Jones, Peter. John & Abigail Adams. United States: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2007.
Jones, Robert. Literature, Gender and Politics in Britain during the War for America, 1770-1785. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Kadish, Doris Y. Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
Kadish, Doris Y., and Françoise Massardier-Kenney. Translating Slavery. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010.
Kann, Mark E. A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Kanter, Deborah E. Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
Karasch, Mary C. Before Brasilia: Frontier Life in Central Brazil. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
Keep, John L. H. Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462-1874. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Kennedy, Catriona. "From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo." 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, 137-156. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Kennedy, Catriona. "John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the British Army Officer during the Napoleonic Wars." In Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830, edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, 127-146. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Kennedy, Catriona, and Matthew McCormack. Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Kierner, Cynthia A. Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Kinkel, Sarah. Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy In Harvard historical studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Knott, Sarah. Sensibility and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Knouff, Gregory T. "Masculinity, Race and Citizenship: Soldiers' Memories of the American Revolution." In Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830, edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, 325-342. Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Knox, MacGregor. "Mass Politics and Nationalism as Military Revolutions: The French Revolution and After." In The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050, edited by MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, 57-73. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Knox, MacGregor, and Williamson Murray. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Koller, Christian. "Defeat and Foreign Rule as a Narrative of National Rebirth: The German Memory of the Napoleonic Period in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." In Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era, edited by Jenny Macleod, 30-45. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Kramer, Lloyd S. Nationalism in Europe & America: Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Krüger, Christine, and Sonja Levsen. War Volunteering in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Second World War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Kühne, Thomas. Männergeschichte — Geschlechtergeschichte: Männlichkeit im Wandel der Moderne. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 1996.
Kutz, Martin. Deutsche Soldaten: Eine Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
Laffin, John. Women in Battle. London ; New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1967.
Lafon, Jean-Marc. L'Andalousie et Napoléon: Contre-insurrection, collaboration et résistances dans le Midi de l'Espagne, 1808-1812. Paris: Nouveau Monde; Bibliothèque Napoléon, 2007.
Lamata, Luis Alberto. Miranda Regresa. Venezuela: Amazonia Films, 2007.
Lamata, Luis Alberto. Taita Boves. Venezuela: Cines Unidos de Venezuela, 2010.
Landers, Jane G. Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Landers, Jane, and Barry Robinson. Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Landes, Joan B. "Republican Citizenship and Heterosocial Desire: Concepts of Masculinity in Revolutionary France." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, 96-115. Manchester: Palgrave, 2004.
Landes, Joan B. "The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration." In Feminism, the Public, and the Private, edited by Joan B. Landes, 135-163. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Landes, Joan B. Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.

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