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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Naro, Nancy Priscilla. Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. London: University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003.
Nash, Gary B. "The African Americans’ Revolution." In The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution,, edited by Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky, 250-272. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Nash, Gary B. The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Noonan, Norma C., and Carol Nechemias. Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Nussbaum, Arthur. A Concise History of the Law of Nations. New York: MacMillan, 1947.
Oberg, Barbara. Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World. University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Offen, Karen. European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Osman, Julia. Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
O’Brien, David. After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
O’Brien, David. "Another lieu de mémoire? Napoleonic Painting, the Museum and French Memory." In War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, edited by Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann, 291-316. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
O’Toole, Rachel Sarah. Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2012.
Palmer, Robert R. "Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow: From Dynastic to National War." In Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, edited by Felix Gilbert, Craig A. Gordon and Peter Paret, 91-119. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Palmer, Jennifer L. Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. Philidelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Palmié, Stephan, and Francisco A. Scarano. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Paoletti, Ciro. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Paoletti, Ciro. "War, 1688–1812." In A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe, edited by Peter H. Wilson, 464-478. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.
Paret, Peter. Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Cambridge History of Warfare. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Parrott, David. "Had a Distinct Template for a ‘Western Way of War’ Been Established before 1800?" In The Changing Character of War, edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, 48-63. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Pasler, Jann. Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Payne, Stanley G. Politics and the Military in Modern Spain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967.
Pearsall, Sarah M. S. Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Pearsall, Sarah M. S. "Women in the American Revolutionary War." In The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution, edited by Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky, 273-290. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Pérotin-Dumon, Anne. Etre Patriote sous les tropiques: La Guadeloupe, la colonization et la revolution. Basse-Terre: Société d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe, 1985.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution. New York: Viking, 2013.
Pichichero, Christy L. The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.
Pierrat, Emmanuel. Le tribunal de la Terreur. Paris: Fayard, 2019.
Pivotto, Sebastián. Belgrano. Argentina, 2010.
Planert, Ute. Napoleon's Empire: European Politics in Global Perspective. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Polasky, Janet L. Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
Popkin, Jeremy D. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2020.
Popkin, Jeremy D. You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Porch, R. Douglas. Army and Revolution: France 1815-1848. London: Routledge Kegan & Paul , 1974.
Probert, Rebecca. Catherine Exley's Diary: The Life and Times of an Army Wife in the Peninsular War. Kennilworth, UK: Brandram, 2014.
Purcell, Sarah J. Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

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