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War, Patriotism and Identity in Revolutionary North America (Hardcover)
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War, Patriotism and Identity in Revolutionary North America (Hardcover)
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An intriguing study of the revolutionary army as a powerful and yet
contested symbol of nascent national identity among the American
colonies. In spite of various and growing discontents, the British
inhabitants of the thirteen North American colonies continued to
see themselves as an integral part of the British imperial project
right up to the beginning of the AmericanRevolutionary War. By its
end eight years later, a distinctive continental identity had
developed, brought into being by the manifold stresses of
internecine conflict. The Continental Army emerged as the first
embodiment of this national consciousness, and Jon Chandler's
innovative study charts the various conflicting forces at work in
this process. He shows how local and political allegiances were
assimilated into a national ideal through various forms of print
from newspapers to plays and pictures, and through public rituals
of celebration and commemoration, but also how this continental
turn was resisted not only by those who had least to gain from the
new order - loyalists, slaves, Native Americans and civilians
exposed to the worst excesses of the conflict - but also more
surprisingly by elements within the army, which increasingly
defined itself as a military community distinct from civil society.
Nonetheless, as the war unfolded it was the ideas and rituals of
the continent which most ordinary Americans absorbed and which
would shape the national idealism of the early United States.
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