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This definitive reference on the American Revolution - written by acclaimed scholars and military experts from around the world - covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation. How did they do it? How did a rag-tag army and fractious group of lawyers, farmers, and businessmen - with far from unanimous popular support - defy a global empire and forge the most successful political revolution in human history, creating a blueprint for a nation that has endured for more than two centuries while so many others have failed? "The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History" is the new standard reference for investigating how the United States was created by force of arms and how the Revolution provided the wellspring for the nation's subsequent development.From the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1789, this work addresses not just military and political matters, but the broad spectrum of American culture at the time, as well as the full range of the Revolution's participants (men and women; soldiers and civilians; patriots and loyalists; the British, French, and American militaries; German mercenaries; Native Americans; and African Americans, both free and slave). With over 1,000 entries and essays, a separate documents volume, and contributions from an extraordinary group of experts (including scholars from Britain and France), "The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War" supplants all other works of its kind, as it captures with unprecedented balance and richness, the birth of a nation. |