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James Kirby Martin's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Riverside
Masters History University of California, Riverside
Bachelors History University of California, Riverside

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According to Wikipedia, James Kirby Martin is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. A nationally recognized scholar in United States history, he is well known for his writings on various aspects of American military and social history, specifically the American Revolution, and the study of alcohol-related issues in the United States. In addition to his scholarly work and publications, Martin has advised and appeared on television programs aired on the History Channel and also advises New York-based Talon Films on historical issues. Recently he has become involved in movie production.

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A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763 - 1789 (1982) (33)
Ambivalent Sensibilities: Alcohol in History and Literature@@@Drinking in America: A History@@@Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature@@@Alcohol and the Writer.@@@The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer (1990) (26)
Prohibition, the lie of the land (1981) (26)
Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution (2006) (21)
Citizens in Arms: The Army and the Militia in American Society to the War of 1812@@@War and American Thought: From the Revolution to the Monroe Doctrine (1983) (20)
Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment (review) (2011) (20)
New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 (review) (2001) (19)
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America (review) (2009) (13)
To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783. By E. Wayne Carp (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. xiii + 306 pp. $29.00) (1986) (11)
Men in rebellion: Higher governmental leaders and the coming of the American Revolution (1973) (10)
Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940 (review) (2001) (10)
Electrifying Speeches: Emotional Control and the Technological Aesthetic of the Voice in the Early 20th Century US (2011) (7)
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. By Allan M. Brandt. (New York: Basic Books. vii plus 600. $36.00) (2009) (6)
The Human Dimensions of Nation Making: Essays on Colonial and Revolutionary America (1977) (5)
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. By Elizabeth A. Fenn. (New York: Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. xiv plus 370 pp. $25.00) (2003) (5)
The Return of the Paxton Boys and the Historical State of the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1764-1774 (1971) (4)
ACOG Practice Bulletin (2001) (4)
Cincinnatus: George Washington & the Enlightenment: Images of Power in Early America (1985) (3)
Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered (1997) (3)
Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and Its Opponents in Australia. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. xiv, 271 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-86840-745-3.) (2002) (3)
Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. By Gerald F. Linderman (New York: The Free Press, a Division of the Macmillan Company, 1987. pp. x, 357) (1989) (3)
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. By Charles Royster (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. xii plus 523 pp. $30.00) (1993) (3)
The British Soldier in America: A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period. By Sylvia R. Frey (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1981. xii + 211 pp.) (1983) (2)
The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783 (review) (2010) (1)
Plunder, Profit, and Paroles: A Social History of the War of 1812 in Upper Canada. By George Sheppard (Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. x plus 334pp. $39.95) (1995) (1)
No Turning Point: The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective (2013) (1)
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors. By Benjamin H. Irvin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii plus 378 pp. $34.95) (2014) (1)
A Model for the Coming American Revolution: The Birth and Death of the Wentworth Oligarchy in New Hampshire, 1741–1776 (1970) (1)
Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold’s Plot to Betray America by Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case (review) (2014) (1)
In the Course of Human Events: An Interpretive Exploration of the American Revolution (1979) (1)
The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution. By Thomas Fleming. (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 2017. Pp. x, 310. $28.00.) (2018) (1)
Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver" (review) (2000) (1)
The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity (review) (2007) (1)
Terry Bouton. Taming Democracy: “The People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution. (2010) (0)
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America by Gary Clayton Anderson (review) (2015) (0)
Tom Paine: The Greatest Exile. By David Powell. (New York: St. Martin's, 1985. xiii + 303 pp. $22.50.) (1986) (0)
Book Reviews: English Defenders of American Freedoms, 1774-1778: Six Pamphlets Attacking British Policy, compiled by Paul H. Smith (1974) (0)
The Challenge of the American Revolution. By Edmund S. Morgan (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1976. xi + 224 pp. S10.95) (1978) (0)
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor. Dir. by Mikael Salomon. A&E Original Television Presentation, 2003. 92 mins. (2003) (0)
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (review) (2003) (0)
Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition (review) (2007) (0)
Revolution from the Middle Up@@@Men in Rebellion: Higher Governmental Leaders and the Coming of the American Revolution. (1974) (0)
A Traitor's Epiphany: Benedict Arnold in Virginia and His Quest for Reconciliation (2017) (0)
War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Ed. by John Resch and Walter Sargent. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. viii, 318 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-366-1. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-87580-614-3.) (2007) (0)
United States (1991) (0)
The Brave Man. Dir. by Joseph McCarthy, 2001. 33 mins. (Cinema Guild, 130 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016-7038; 212-685- 6242; info@cinemaguild.com; info@cinemaguild.com [Sept. 13, 2004]) (2004) (0)
The Papers of George Washington. Revolutionary War Series. Vol I: June–September 1775. Ed. by Philander D. Chase. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. xxix + 513 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00.) (1986) (0)
Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution (review) (2010) (0)
Beyond the Good Guys-Bad Guys Syndrome: Will the Real Alexander Hamilton Please Stand Up?@@@Alexander Hamilton. (1983) (0)
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (2006) (0)
A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army (review) (2005) (0)
Jack H. Mendelson and Nancy K. Mello, Alcohol: Use and Abuse in America. Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1985. Pp. xii, 395. (1989) (0)
Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. By Peter C. Mancall (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. xix plus 268pp. $29.95) (1996) (0)
United States (1987) (0)
The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry (2014) (0)
Valley Forge: The Battle for Survival. Prod. by Charlotte Parks. Mirage Productions and Figgie International, 1991. 23 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543) (1992) (0)
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors by Benjamin H. Irvin (review) (2014) (0)
The American Revolution : whose revolution? (1977) (0)
Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution. By Holly A. Mayer (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. xiv plus 307pp. $39.95) (1998) (0)
Book Reviews: Colonial Pennsylvania: A History, by Joseph E. Illick (1978) (0)
Book Reviews: Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert (1983) (0)
Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America (review) (2005) (0)
David L. Preston . The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontier of Iroquoia, 1667–1783. (2010) (0)
The Papers of General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, 1777–1794. Ed. by Edith von Zemenszky. 7 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. (Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1983. $575.) (1988) (0)
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. By T. H. Breen (New York: Hill and Wang, 2010. 337 pp. $27.00) (2012) (0)
Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (review) (2010) (0)
General John Burgoyne by Richard J. Hargrove, Jr. (1985) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1984) (0)
A Contagion of Violence: The Ideal of Jus in Bello versus the Realities of Fighting on the New York Frontier during the Revolutionary War (2015) (0)
Washington's Crossing (2006) (0)
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America. By Gary Clayton Anderson (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. ix plus 462 pp. $29.95) (2015) (0)
Book Reviews: The Soldiers' Revolution: Pennsylvanias in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity, by Gregory T. Knouff. (2004) (0)
Washington's Crossing (2006) (0)
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America (review) (2005) (0)
SOCIOLOGY CHARLES F. DELZELL, ed. The Future of History: Essays in the Vanderbilt University Centennial Symposium. Pp. xi, 263. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1977. $13.95 (1978) (0)
A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America. By John E. Ferling (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. xiv + 227 pp. $25.00) (1982) (0)
DAVID C. HUMPHREY. From King's College to Columbia, 1746-1800. Pp. xi, 413. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. $15.00 (1976) (0)
Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero (review) (2003) (0)
Book Reviews: The Way of the Fox: American Strategy in the War for America, 1775-1783, by Dave Richard Palmer (1976) (0)
War and Society in Colonial Connecticut. By Harold E. Selesky (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1990. xvi plus 278 pp. $23.50) (1991) (0)
Book Reviews: Alexander McDougall and the American Revolution in New York, by Roger J. Champagne (1976) (0)
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783. By Charles Royster (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1979. xviii + 452 pp. $19.50) (1981) (0)
Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution (2009) (0)
George Washington: A Biography. By John R. Alden. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. xiii + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $19.95.) (1985) (0)
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (review) (2012) (0)

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