| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 323 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Perspectives in American social history |
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Gale eBooks
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Perspectives in American social history.
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Independence on the land : small farmers and the American Revolution / Terry Bouton -- An "Epidemical fury of emigration" : the flight of the non-English into the colonies on the eve of the American Revolutionary War / Robyn McMillan -- "Self-evident truths" on trial : African Americans in the American Revolution / Jon Sensbach -- "The times have turned everything topside down" : native Americans and the American Revolution / Andrew K. Frank -- Redcoats, regulators, and the rattletrap : the backcountry experience during the American Revolution / Daniel S. Murphree -- "Born in the midst of bloodshed and battles" : children during the American Revolution / Elizabeth McKee Williams -- "An exceeding dirty and nasty people" : enlisted men in the Continental Army / Andrew C. Lannen -- "Both parties trembled for the ark of God" : transatlantic Methodism and the American Revolution / Anna M. Lawrence -- "This time of deep affliction and difficulty" : the Society of Friends and the American Revolution / A. Glenn Crothers -- A sea of rebellion : maritime workers in the age of the American Revolution / Matthew Raffety -- Ladies of liberty : the lives of women during the American Revolution / Lisa Ennis -- "Allegiance to a fall'n Lord" : the loyalist experience in the American Revolution / Margaret Sankey. |
| Summary |
Explores the world of the average citizens who played an integral part in the Revolutionary era of American history. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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| Added Author |
Frank, Andrew, 1970- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781851097036 (DLC) 2007008025 |
| ISBN |
9781851097081 (electronic book) |
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1851097082 (electronic book) |
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9781851097036 (alk. paper) |
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1851097031 (alk. paper) |
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