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Bailyn, Bernard. Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. One of the fundamental works looking at the background and ideals behind the War of Independence.

Black, Jeremy. The War for America: The Struggle for American Independence. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1991.

Calhoon, Robert M. The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973.

Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985. On the prelude to the war, this covers American social history and the development of American resistance to Britain.

Donoughue, Bernard. British Politics and the American Revolution, 1773-1775. London: Macmillan, 1964. Covers the Townshend crisis.

Dull, Jonathan, R. The Diplomacy of the American Revolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1957.

Foner, E. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. New York:: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Greene, Jack P., and Pole, J. R., eds. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1991. Seventy-five articles by authorities covering the context, events (before, during, and after), effects, and concepts of the War of Independence, including biographies and a chronological table. Thorough, authoritative, and comprehensive.

Greene, Jack P., ed. The American Revolution: Its Character and Times. New York: New York University Press, 1987. A valuable collection of essays on the War, this discusses the philosophy of the struggle for independence.

Henretta, James. The Evolution of American Society, 1700 to 1815. London: D. C. Heath, 1973. Britain's perspective on the development of America.

Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1971. A much-referred-to text covering the military and political aspects of the War.

Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. A standard text on the development of resistance to Britain, and the internal build-up to revolution.

Morgan, Edmund S. Birth of a Republic, 1763-89. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, By one of the period's authorities, this covers the social and diplomatic changes involved in the issue of independence.

Nettels, Curtis. George Washington and American Independence. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. A useful study of one of the main personalities in the development of American independence.

Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. Contemporary English text that helped inflame the revolutionary spirit in America (originally published in 1776).

Sainsbury, John. Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America, 1769-1782. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1987. Unusual aspect to the British side of the War.

Skemp, Sheila L. Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist. Boston and New York: Bedford Books (St Martin's Press), 1994. A useful, brief, social study from two opposing perspectives at the centre of the conflict.

Tuchman, Barbara. The First Salute. London: Joseph, 1989. Standard text on the War and its battles.

Ward, Henry M. The American Revolution: Nationhood Achieved, 1763-1788. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. Thorough overview drawing on up-to-date research, primary sources, and intended to cover cultural, political, and military aspects of the war.

White, Morton. The Philosophy of the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. The concepts behind the Declaration of Independence.