American Revolution - Distance Education @ NCSSM 美国革命”组成的远程教育

American Revolution - Distance Education @ NCSSM 美国革命”组成的远程教育 Learn More – Teach More Content Module Topic Why Did Britain, the World’s Greatest Superpower, Lose the American War of Independence? Further Reading *Signifies Seminal Works Primary Sources Albany Plan of Union: ~usa/D/1751-1775/7yearswar/albany.htm *Bland, Humphrey. A Treatise of Military Discipline.... (Variant titles). Boston: D. Henchman, 1743, 1744, 1747 and 1755; New York: Henry de Forest, 1754; New York: Hugh Gaine, 1759. The most influential treatise on military discipline in the British army. Acquired by George Washington, 1755. Read by Southern militia commanders. *cf. “Early Military Manuals of American Imprint” *Dann, John C., ed. The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. *Davis, K. G., ed. Documents of the American Revolution, 21 vols. Shannon, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 1972-1981. First Regulations for the Navy. Fitzpatrick, John C., ed. Writings of George Washington, 39 vols. Washington, D. C.: 1931-1944. Fortesque, John W., ed. The Correspondence of King George the Third, 6 vols. London: Macmillan and Company, 1927-1928. *Journals of the Continental Congress: Articles of War, June 30, 1775. *Journals of the Continental Congress: Articles of War, September 20, 1776. *Journals of the Continental Congress: Instructions to Washington, June 20, 1775. Klein, Milton M. and R. W. Howard. The Twilight of British Rule in Revolutionary America: The New York Letter Book of General James Robertson, 1780-1783. Cooperstown, N. Y.: Fennimore Book Store, 1984. Lee, Henry. Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department (New York, 1812). Showman, Richard K., ed. The Papers of Nathanael Greene, 12 vols to date. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976-. Simmons, R. C. and P. D. G Thomas, eds. Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliament Respecting North America, 1754-1783, 6 vols. to date. Millward, N. Y.: Krause Publishers, 1982-. Tarleton, Banastre. A History of the Campaigns . . . in the Southern Provinces of North America. London: T. Cadell, 1787. Treaty of Alliance with France: Washington, George. The Diaries of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick. 4 vols. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Washington, George. The Papers of George Washington, ed. W.W. Abbott. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1983-. Washington, George. Letter to the Continental Congress, December 23, 1777. Willcox, William B., ed. The American Rebellion: Sir Henry Clinton’s Narrative of His Campaigns. Yale University Press, 1954. Secondary Works Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Enlarged edition. *Bowler, R. Arthur. Logistics and the Failure of the British Army in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Butterfield, Herbert. George III, Lord North, and the People. London: Russell 7 Russell Publishers, 1968. Conway, Stephen. The British Isles and the War of American Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. _____________ Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Reprint of the 1969 edition with a new preface. Frey, Sylvia. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Reprint. Extends and applies the work of Benjamin Quarles The Negro in the American Revolution, 1961. Gruber, Ira. The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1975. *Higginbotham, Don. George Washington and the American Military Tradition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. *Higginbotham, Don. War and Society in Revolutionary America: The Wider Dimensions of the Conflict. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. Higginbotham, Don. The War for American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practices, 1763-1789. Chicago: Northeastern University Press, 1983. *MacKesy, Piers. The War for America, 1775-1783, reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Mintz, Max M. The Generals of Saratoga. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Morgan, Edmund S. “George Washington and the Use of Power” in The Genius of George Washington. New York: W.W. Norton, 1980. ____________ "'The multitude of women': An Examination of the Numbers of Female Camp Followers with the Continental Army." The Brigade Dispatch. Three Parts: vol. XXIII, no. 4 (Autumn 1992), 5-17; vol. XXIV, no. 1 (Winter 1993), 6-16; vol. XXIV, no. 2 (Spring 1993), 2- 6. (Reprinted in Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, vol. XIV, no. 2 (Summer 1996). Pancake, John S. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, reprint. Tuscoloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992. _____________ The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf Publishing, 1993. Reprint. Rees, John U. "The proportion of Women which ought to be allowed..." An Overview of Continental Army’s Female Camp Followers.” See Smith, Paul H. Loyalists and Redcoats: A Study of British Revolutionary Policy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964. *Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. New York: Random House, 2002. ________________ The War of Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1762- 1789. New York: Macmillan, 1971. Williams, T. Harry. Americans at War: The Development of the American Military System. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1960.