Recommended Readings, Choosing Revolution
Anderson, Fred. The Crucible of War: The Seven
Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the
American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1967.
Billings, Warren M., John E. Selby, and Thad W. Tate. Colonial
Virginia: A History. New York: KTD, 1986.
Breen, T.H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics
Shaped American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Breen, T.H. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great
Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. With a new preface by the
author. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Brewer, Holly. “Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia:
‘Ancient Feudal Restraints’ and Revolutionary Reforms.” William and Mary
Quarterly, 3rd Ser., LIV (1997), 307-346.
Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious
Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Burnard, Trevor. Creole Gentleman: The Maryland Elite,
1691-1776. London: Routledge, 2002.
Egnal, Marc. “The Origins of the Revolution in Virginia: A
Reinterpretation.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser.,
XXXVII (1980), pp. 401–428.
Fischer, David Hackett. Liberty and Freedom: A Visual
History of America’s Founding Ideas. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2005.
Fithian, Philip V. Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers
Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773–1774. Edited by
Hunter Dickinson Farish. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
1957.
Frey, Sylvia R. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a
Revolutionary Age. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1991.
Greene, Jack P. Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial
Political and Constitutional History. Charlottesville, Va.:
University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Greene, Jack P. “‘Virtus et Libertas’: Political Culture, Social
Changes and the Origins of the American Revolution in Virginia,
1763-1766.” In Jeffery J. Crow and Larry E. Tise, eds., The Southern
Experience in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University
of North Carolina Press, 1978.
Hammon, Neal O., and Richard Taylor. Virginia’s Western
War, 1775-1786. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 2002.
Hellier, Cathleene. “Choosing Revolution.” In Cary Carson,
ed. Becoming Americans: Our Struggle To Be Both Free and Equal.
Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2004.
Hinderaker, Eric. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in
the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A
Carroll Saga, 1500-1782. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000.
Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the
Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill, N.C.:
University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Isaac, Rhys. Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom:
Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004.
Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. Chapel
Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Jefferson, Thomas. Summary View of the Rights of British America. Reprint.
Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976.
Kolp, John Gilman. Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral
Politics in Colonial Virginia. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1998.
Longmore, Paul K. The Invention of George Washington.
Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
McConnell, Michael N. A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley
and Its Peoples, 1724–1774. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press,
1992.
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel
Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
Ragsdale, Bruce A. A Planters’ Republic: The Search for
Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia. Madison, Wis.: Madison
House, 1996.
Selby, John E. A Chronology of Virginia and the War of
Independence, 1763-1783. Charlottesville, Va.: University
Press of Virginia, 1973.
Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783.
Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988.
Sosin, Jack M. The Revolutionary
Frontier, 1763-1783. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1967.
Sydnor, Charles S. American
Revolutionaries in the Making: Political Practicesin Washington’s
Virginia. New York: Free Press, 1965. Formerly published in
1952 as Gentlemen Freeholders: Political
Practices in Washington’s Virginia.
Virginia Declaration of Rights. Text printed in The George
Mason Lectures, Honoring the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Virginia
Declaration of Rights. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, 1976.
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics
in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1991.
Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History.
New York: Modern Library, 2002
Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Wood, Peter H. Liberty is Sweet’: African-American Struggles in the
Years before White Independence. In Beyond the American Revolution:
Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. Edited by Alfred F. Young.
DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.
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