A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783

by Charles Royster

Overview

In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace at large faced the Revolution and its implications. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807899830
Publisher:	Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	463
Sales rank:	255,363
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Charles Royster, Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times, Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution and The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, which received the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Award in Southern History.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Represents a quantum leap in our understanding of the Revolution. . . . [The book] is social history, intellectual history, institutional history, political history, and not any single one of them, which is to say that it is good history.—Edmund S. Morgan, New Republic

To a far greater extent than is true of most historical monographs, it is a work of art. . . . No student of early American history should miss it.—Journal of Southern History