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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Neimeyer, Charles Patrick, 1954- America goes to war. New York : New York University Press, ©1996 (DLC) 95004406 (OCoLC)32550145 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Patrick Neimeyer |
ISBN: | 0585114501 9780585114507 9780814759264 0814759262 9780814757802 0814757804 9780814757826 0814757820 |
OCLC Number: | 44962637 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages). |
Contents: | 1. Few had the appearance of soldiers: the social origins of the continental line -- 2. The most audacious rascals exxisting: the Irish in the continental army -- 3. A true pell-mell of human souls: the Germans in the continental army -- 4. Changing one master for another: black soldiers in the continental army -- 5. Scalp bounties and truck houses: the struggle for indian allies in the revolution -- 6. To get as much for my skin as I could: the soldier as wage laborer -- 7. Running though the line like wildfire: resistance, punishment, desertion, and mutiny in the continental army. |
Series Title: | American social experience series, 32. |
Responsibility: | Charles Patrick Neimeyer. |
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Fascinating. * Historical Journal of Massachusetts * Neimeyer demythologizes the Continental army and very effectively demonstrates that it was an organization that evolved from its original relatively homogeneous make-up into a volatile, multicultural force that included many recent immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans. . . . A testament to the propertyless, inarticulate, marginal individuals who actually secured liberty for later generations. -- Dr. David J. Fowler,The David Library of the American Revolution Neimeyer pushes to the next plateau the recent work of historians who have investigated the contributions of the Continental Army to the American Revolution. Because of his research and his synthesis of recent scholarship, the previously inarticulate common soldiers of the rank and file find their voices. -- James M. Johnson,author of Militiamen, Rangers, and Redcoats: The Military in Georgia, 1754-1776 Thoroughly compelling. Neimeyer's research is superb, and his social history perspective has told us more than anyone about the origins of the Continental Army and the meanings soldiers attached to their service. This is a genuinely important book. -- Mark Edward Ledner,co-author of A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic Read more...

