Mostly I have gotten useful tips here and there. DK is one source for my reading. I have to be selective. Kennan and Bailyn were two references from him that I have come to cite over again.
Very illuminating things I have read, I cite over and over again.
I happened across Doyle's The Old European Order, a truly great book.
Doyle, in turn, recommended, above all others, Palmer's The Age Of The Democratic Revolution, a two volume work chronicling and explaining connections between revolutionary initiatives and reactions on a Western Civilization wide basis.
With so many books on these various topics, often separate accounts by single country, seldom treated together, this was an immensely helpful reference.
Doyle's book is very useful to read before Palmer's.
Another book one really must read, to understand the American rebellion, and where it came from, really, before reading Palmer, is Bailyn, Ideological Origins. To place Ideological Origins in the context of earlier, 17th Century, British history, which it needs in order to be fully understood, I don't know what the best book is.
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