A People Numerous and Armed

by Shy, John

• ISBN13: 9780472064311
• ISBN10: 0472064312
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Americans like to think of themselves as a peaceful and peace-loving people, and in remembering their own revolutionary past, American historians have long tended to focus on colonial origins and Constitutional aftermath, neglecting the fact that the American Revolution was a long, hard war. In this book, John Shy shifts the focus to the Revolutionary War and explores the ways in which the experience of that war was entangled with both the causes and the consequences of the Revolution itself. This is not a traditional military chronicle of battles and campaigns, but a series of essays that recapture the social, political, and even intellectual dimensions of the military effort that had created an American nation by 1783. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Shy is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Michigan and has held positions at Princeton University, the University of London, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the U.S. Army War College.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Original Edition	p. 1
The American Revolution Today	p. 9
A New Look at the Colonial Militia	p. 29
The Spectrum of Imperial Possibilities: Henry Ellis and Thomas Pownall, 1763-1775	p. 43
The Empire Militant: Thomas Gage and the Coming of War	p. 81
American Society and Its War for Independence	p. 117
American Strategy: Charles Lee and the Radical Alternative	p. 133
Hearts and Minds in the American Revolution: The Case of "Long Bill" Scott and Peterborough, New Hampshire	p. 163
Armed Loyalism: The Case of the Lower Hudson Valley	p. 181
British Strategy for Pacifying the Southern Colonies, 1778-1781	p. 193
The Military Conflict Considered as a Revolutionary War	p. 213
The Legacy of the American Revolutionary War	p. 245
The American Military Experience: History and Learning	p. 265
Further Reflections	p. 295
Notes	p. 299
Index	p. 345
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