A Companion to George Washington

by Lengel, Edward G.

• ISBN13: 9781444331035
• ISBN10: 1444331035
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Utilizing new primary source material from the Papers of George Washington, a documentary editing project dedicated to the transcription and publication of original documents, A Companion to George Washington features a collection of original readings from scholars and popular historians that shed new light on all aspects of the life of George Washington. Provides readers with new insights into previously neglected aspects of Washingtons life Features original essays from top scholars and popular historians Based on new research from thousands of previously unpublished letters to and from Washington

Author Biography

Edward G. Lengel is Professor and Editor-in-Chief of the Papers of George Washington, a documentary editing project dedicated to the transcription and publication of original documents, at the University of Virginia. His books include General George Washington: A Military Life (2005); This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters (2008), Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder in Myth and Memory (2011), and many others. Lengel is a columnist for Military History magazine and has appeared in documentaries about Washington on The History Channel.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvi
The Youth of George Washington	p. 1
The Unlikely Success of a Provincial Surveyor: George Washington Finds Fame in the American Frontier, 1749-1754	p. 15
Treating American Indians as 'Slaves', 'Dogs', and Unwanted Allies: George Washington, Edward Braddock, and the Influence of Ethnocentrism and Diplomatic Pragmatism in Ohio Valley Military Relations, 1753-1755	p. 32
A Provincial Goes to War: George Washington and the Virginia Regiment, August 1755-January 1759	p. 53
Entrepreneur	p. 70
George Washington and His Family	p. 86
Washington and Slavery	p. 104
"What Manner of Man I Am": The Political Career of George Washington before the Revolution	p. 121
George Washington and the Siege of Boston	p. 137
George Washington at New York: The Campaign of 1776	p. 153
The Crossing: The Trenton and Princeton Campaign of 1776-1777	p. 173
George Washington and the Philadelphia Campaign 1777	p. 190
Washington at Valley Forge	p. 209
The Politics of Battle: Washington, the Army, and the Monmouth Campaign	p. 226
"The most unlimited Confidence in his Wisdom & Judgement": Washington as Commander in Chief in the First Years of the French Alliance	p. 245
Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781	p. 266
"High Time For Peace": George Washington and the Close of the American Revolution	p. 288
George Washington's Navy	p. 302
Washington's Irregulars	p. 320
George Washington Spymaster	p. 344
Administrator in Chief	p. 358
George Washington: America's First Soldier	p. 378
Revolution and Peace	p. 399
George Washington and the Constitution	p. 413
George Washington and Republican Government: The Political Thought of George Washington	p. 430
One Cause, One Purpose, One Nation: George Washington, the Whiskey Insurrection, and Executive Authority	p. 447
Securing the Revolution: The American Economy and the Challenge of Independence	p. 471
George Washington and the Emergence of Party Politics in the New Nation	p. 490
Foreign Policy in the Presidential Era	p. 506
George Washington in Retirement	p. 524
George Washington's Mind	p. 542
Religion: George Washington, Anglican Gentleman	p. 558
George Washington, Death and Mourning	p. 576
The Washington Image in American Culture	p. 592
Bibliography	p. 612
Index	p. 640
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