Goodwin E.H. The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume 8, The American and French Revolutions, 1763-93

Cambridge University Press, 1965. — 772 p. — ISBN: 0-521-04546-0; ISBN: 0-521-29108-9.Between the Peace of Paris 1763 and the outbreak, thirty years later, of the war of the first European coalition against revolutionary France, the outlines of a Western civilisation which was recognisably 'modern' in most of its characteristic attitudes and attributes rapidly emerged. A civil war between the English colonists in North America and the imperial government at Westminster, unparalleled industrial and commercial expansion in Britain, radical social and political reforms in France and a steady but uneven increase in population imposed on the western world a momentum of revolutionary change which has never since slackened. On a comparatively minor scale, but with results which helped to determine the trend towards greater social and political equality at this period, there occurred in western Europe another series of revolutions — such as the struggles in the small city republic of Geneva between 1768 and 1789 for the political and economic emancipation of the middle-class reprdsentants and the socially inferior and unprivileged natifs, the Dutch 'patriotic' movement of 1784-7 and the schismatic revolt of the Belgian democrats in the Austrian Netherlands between 1789 and 1792.
This approach has stemmed from dissatisfaction with the tendency to study the American and French revolutions in isolation, rather than in the wider context of an emergent eighteenth-century 'Atlantic community'. This community was itself the product of the expanding commercial, intellectual and religious contacts between western Europe and the New World.Introductory survey by A. Goodwin
Population, commerce and economic ideas: Population growth by Sir John Habakkuk
Population, commerce and economic ideas: Trade by Sir John Habakkuk
Population, commerce and economic ideas: Economic ideas by Sir John Habakkuk
Literature and thought: The romantic tendency, Rousseau, Kant by W. Stark
Music, art and architecture: Music by F. W. Sternfeld
Music, art and architecture: Art and architecture by Peter Murray
Science and technology by D. McKie
Educational ideas, practice and institutions by A. V. Judges
Armed forces and the art of war: Navies by Christopher Lloyd
Armed forces and the art of war: Armies by J.R. Western
European relations with Asia and Africa: Relations with Asia by Kenneth Ballhatchet
European relations with Asia and Africa: Relations with Africa, 1763–93 by J. D. Hargreaves
European diplomatic relations, 1763–90 by M. S. Anderson
The Habsburg possessions and Germany by E. Wangermann
Russia by I. Young
The partitions of Poland by L. R. Lewitter
The Iberian states and the Italian states, 1763–1793: The Iberian states by J. Lynch
The Iberian states and the Italian states, 1763–1793: The Italian states by J. M. Roberts
The development of the American communities outside British rule by R. A. Humphreys
Social and psychological foundations of the revolutionary era by R. R. Palmer
The American revolution, 1763–93: Constitutional aspects by Max Beloff
The American Revolution in its imperial, strategic and diplomatic aspects by M. A. Jones
American independence in its American context, social and political aspects, western expansion by Esmond Wright
The beginnings of reform in Great Britain, imperial problems, politics and administration, economic growth by W. R. Ward
French administration and public finance in their European setting by J. F. Bosher
The breakdown of the old régime in France by D. Dakin
The historiography of the French revolution by J. McManners
The outbreak of the French Revolution by G. E. Rudé
Reform and revolution in France: October 1789–February 1793 by A. Goodwin
Appendix: Estimated growth of population in Europe and North America in the eighteenth century