Adelman, Jeremy. Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. 2006. An examination of independence movements in both Spanish and Portuguese America.

Armitage, David, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760–1840. 2009. Presents the age of revolution as a global phenomenon encompassing Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Auslander, Leora. Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America, and France. 2009. An innovative interpretation of the revolutions in England, America, and France as cultural revolutions that politicized daily life.

Bell, David A. The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800. 2001. Traces early French nationalism through its revolutionary culmination.

Broers, Michael. Europe Under Napoleon. 2002. Probes Napoleon’s impact on the territories he conquered.

Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. 2006. A study of the dramatic impact of the Seven Years’ War on the British and French colonies of North America.

Desan, Suzanne. The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. 2004. Studies the effects of revolutionary law on the family, including the legalization of divorce.

Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. 2004. An excellent and highly readable account of the revolution that transformed the French colony of Saint-Domingue into the independent state of Haiti.

Englund, Steven. Napoleon: A Political Life. 2004. A good biography of the French emperor.

Goulda, Eliga H., and Peter Onuf, eds. Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World. 2005. A collection of essays placing the American Revolution in its wider Atlantic context, including studies of its impact on daily life in the new republic and the remaining British Empire.

Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, 2d ed. 2004. A pioneering examination of the French Revolution as a cultural phenomenon that generated new festivals, clothing, and songs, and even a new calendar.

Klooster, Wim. Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History. 2009. An accessible and engaging comparison of the revolutions in North America, France, Haiti, and Spanish America.

Sepinwal, Alyssa, ed. Haitian History: New Perspectives. 2013. A collection of essays showcasing the most important new scholarship on the Haitian Revolution.

Sutherland, Donald. France, 1789–1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution. 1986. An overview of the French Revolution that emphasizes its many opponents as well as its supporters.

Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. 2003. A concise introduction to the American Revolution by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian.