The Cambridge History of the American Revolution: Volume 2, Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-59652-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: The Cambridge History of the American Revolution

The second volume focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. It breaks new ground by surveying a wide range of internal conflicts in the thirteen colonies, the trauma of a bloody war and its consequences, as well as the continental, hemispheric, and global forces shaping warfare and politics in this era. Together, the essays expand our understanding of how various people navigated military occupation, community conflict, governmental paralysis, interpersonal relationships, institutional collapse, and the slipperiness of allegiances. Through sweeping interpretative essays and micro-history viewpoints, the volume highlights the interplay of class, race, and gender in a wartime context and how these dynamics played out and were influenced by broader geopolitical developments. The depths of division and grand possibilities are explored – and interrupt our long-standing notions of traditional linear narratives of nation-making in this era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kars, Marjoleine

McDonnell, Michael A

Schocket, Andrew M

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; Maps and tables; List of contributors to volume II; Acknowledgements; General Introduction; Part I. Movements for Independence: 1. Black female freedom seekers Karen Cook Bell; 2. Insurgency and war Benjamin L. Carp; 3. Committees and the congress Joshua Canale; 4. Independence Michelle Orihel; 5. Mobilization Rachel Engl; 6. Religion Spencer W. McBride; Part II. Wars of the Revolution: 7. The new battlefield history Woody Holton; 8. War in the South Rebecca Brannon; 9. Alliances Jacob F. Lee; 10. The civil war Nicolas Bell-Romero; 11. The slaves' war Adam McNeill; 12. Freeborn soldiers of color: the Frank brothers in revolutionary America Shirley L. Green; Part III. Global Warfare: 13. 1776 in Jamaica Sarah M. S. Pearsall; 14. Diplomacy Elizabeth Mancke; 15. Global warfare Stephen Conway; 16. Caribbean connections Ashli White; 17. Diseases, ecology, and environmental disruption Rachel B. Herrmann; 18. Privateering Kylie A. Hulbert; Part IV. Ruptures: 19. War and society Lauren Duval; 20. Sexuality and war Kelly A. Ryan; 21. Violence and trauma Kieran J. O'Keefe; 22. Refugees Kit Candlin; 23. Politics of war Jessica Choppin Roney; 24. Viewpoint: Sarah Osborne Benjamin Riley K. Sutherland; Part V. War and Nation-Making: 25. Constitutions Terry Bouton; 26. Public finance Andrew J. B. Fagal; 27. Depression Scott C. Miller; 28. Confederation Lindsay M. Chervinsky; 29. Constitutional convention Lorri Glover; 30. Ratification Michael Klarman; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

McDonnell, Michael A
Michael A. McDonnell is Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (2024) and The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (2012). He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH).

Kars, Marjoleine
Marjoleine Kars is a Senior Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (2003) and Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (2022). Her work has won numerous prizes, including the Cundill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

Schocket, Andrew M
Andrew M. Schocket is Professor of History and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia (2007) and Fighting over Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution (2015). He is co-director of the Magazine of Early American Datasets.