Researching the American Revolution

Your source for information on the American War of Independence

British Politicians

Primary Sources

Lord Shelburne The Bowood Circle and the American Revolution – Letters To Lord Shelburne 1776-1789. Oxford, England: University Press, 1976.

Secondary Sources

Beloff, Max, ed. The Debate on the American Revolution – 1761-1783. Vol. I. II vols. New York: The British Book Centre, Inc., 1949.

Bunker, Nick. An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America. First edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Coupland, R. The American Revolution and the British Empire. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930.

Gould, Eliga H. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, N.C: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Namier, L. B. England in the Age of the American Revolution. London: Macmillan and Co., LTD, 1930.

Biographies

Nelson, Paul David. William Tryon and the Course of Empire: A Life in British Imperial Service. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.