The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political Social and Military History (5-Volume Set)

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This definitive scholarly reference on the American Revolutionwritten by acclaimed researchers and military experts from around the worldcovers the causes course and consequences of the war and the political social and military origins of the nation. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political Social and Military History is the new standard academic reference for investigating how the United States was created by force of armsand how that revolution reverberated through the nations subsequent development. Presenting the work of hundreds of distinguished international scholars and independent historians (including many from Britain and France) the encyclopedia ranges from the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1789. Its impeccably researched entries address the full spectrum of military political and cultural matters crucial to understanding the causes and course of the warincluding unprecedented coverage of military life and tactics as well as vivid portraits of the Revolutions participants (men and women; soldiers and civilians; patriots and loyalists; the British French and American militaries; German mercenaries; Native Americans; and African Americans both free and slave). The result is a cornerstone reference on the war and the context in which it emergedone that supplants all other works of its kind in portraying the traumatic and triumphant birth of a nation.