Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies Bibliography

[includes some American Revolution]

Assembled by William Warner, 9/2002

Critical, historical and theoretical texts

Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Garth, Tiffin, Helen. The Post-colonial studies reader. London: Routledge, 1995.

Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham: Duke UP, 1999.

Armitage, David. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Ashcroft, Bill and Griffiths, Gareth and Tiffin, Helen. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995.

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967.

Brown, Laura. Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

Castle, Gregroy. Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

Gould, Eliga H. the Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: U of North Caroline P, 2000.

Greene, Jack P. and Pole, J. R. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio. Empire. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 2000.

Hulme, Peter. Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797. London: Methuen, 1986.

Kaul, Suvir. Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2000.

Morrison, Samuel Eliot. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution. 1764-1788. Second Edition. Oxford U Press: Oxford, 1929.

Nussbaum, Felicity. Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University, 1995.

Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, 1992.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.

Thomas, Nicholas. Colonialism’s Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.

Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Tastes of Paradise, A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Wills, Garry. Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Indepedence. New York: Vintage, 1979.

Wood, Gordon. The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1969.

Wood, Gordon. The American Revolution. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

Eighteenth century texts:

Addison, Joseph and Steele, Richard. The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator. Ed Erin Mackie. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave. Ed Catherine Gallagher and Simon Stern. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Commager, Henry Steele and Morris, Richard B. The Spirit of Seventy Six.

Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe; Dell paper back

Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

James, C.L.. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Rowlandson, Mary. Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together With the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed. Ed. by Neal Salisbury. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997.

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. Ed. Christopher Fox. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Thomson, James. James Thomson: Poetical Works. Ed. J. Logie Robertson. London: Oxford UP, 1971.