America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental ArmyNYU Press, 1 nov 1995 - 270 pagina's A unique and revealing analysis of the diverse body that made up the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working artisan-turned-soldier is deeply ingrained in the national psyche. Charles Neimeyer here separates fact from fiction, revealing for the first time who really served in the army during the Revolution and why. His conclusions are startling. Because the army relied primarily on those not connected to the new American aristocracy, the African Americans, Irish, Germans, Native Americans, laborers-for-hire, and “free white men on the move” who served in the army were only rarely altruistic patriots driven by a vision of liberty and national unity. Bringing to light the true composition of the enlisted ranks, the relationships of African-Americans and of Native Americans to the army, and numerous acts of mutiny, desertion, and resistance against officers and government, Charles Patrick Neimeyer here provides the first comprehensive and historically accurate portrait of the Continental soldier. |
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A Social History of the Continental Army Charles Patrick Neimeyer. Preface. During the early months of the Revolution, when the issue of manning and maintaining a national army dominated the thoughts of many in and out of Congress, John ...
A Social History of the Continental Army Charles Patrick Neimeyer. Preface. During the early months of the Revolution, when the issue of manning and maintaining a national army dominated the thoughts of many in and out of Congress, John ...
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... Continental army, ascribing the characteristics of the first year of the war to the war as a whole.4 In this book I ... Congress as arbitrary and capricious, just as Parliament had been to colonial elites. Using even greater means of ...
... Continental army, ascribing the characteristics of the first year of the war to the war as a whole.4 In this book I ... Congress as arbitrary and capricious, just as Parliament had been to colonial elites. Using even greater means of ...
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... Congress. The desperate search for military workers to serve the Continental army as long-termed soldiers caused colonial elites to reconsider the value of racial and ethnic minorities who came to be increasingly attracted to the ...
... Congress. The desperate search for military workers to serve the Continental army as long-termed soldiers caused colonial elites to reconsider the value of racial and ethnic minorities who came to be increasingly attracted to the ...
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... Continental forces: “Every vagrant or man above 18 years of age, able bodied ... Congress passed laws that required new recruits to serve “for the duration ... Congress was notoriously unable to get enough American citizens to serve more ...
... Continental forces: “Every vagrant or man above 18 years of age, able bodied ... Congress passed laws that required new recruits to serve “for the duration ... Congress was notoriously unable to get enough American citizens to serve more ...
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... Continental soldiers were quickly transformed from unskilled or itinerant laborers to a waged ( and armed ) group of military workers who sought to protect their valued skills from being expropriated by Congress . As the war progressed ...
... Continental soldiers were quickly transformed from unskilled or itinerant laborers to a waged ( and armed ) group of military workers who sought to protect their valued skills from being expropriated by Congress . As the war progressed ...
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Black Soldiers in | |
The Struggle for Indian Allies | |
The Soldier as Wage | |
Resistance Punishment | |
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