A Revolutionary People At War - (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) by Charles Royster (Paperback)

About the Book

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

Book Synopsis

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.

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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.

Review Quotes

"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