The American Revolution Reborn 9780812248463, 1976200075, 1991128487, 1997141205, 0812248465

The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imag

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The American Revolution Reborn
 9780812248463, 1976200075, 1991128487, 1997141205, 0812248465

Table of contents :
War stories : remembering and forgetting the American Revolution / Michael A. McDonnell --
The intimacies of occupation : loyalties, compromise, and betrayal in Revolutionary-era Newport / Travis Glasson --
Uncommon clause : the challenges of disaffection in revolutionary Pennsylvania / Aaron Sullivan --
Loyalism, citizenship, American identity : the Shoemaker Family / Kimberly Nath --
"Executioners of their friends and brethren" : naval impressment as an Atlantic War / Denver Brunsman --
British union and American revolution : imperial authority and the multinational state / Ned C. Lansman --
Revisiting the Bishop controversy --
Katherine Carté Engel --
Empire's vital extremities : British Africa and the coming of the American Revolution / Bryan Rosenblithe --
The Great Awakening, Presbyterian education, and the mobilization of power in the Revolutionary Mid-Atlantic / Mark Boonshoft --
"This is the skin of a whit[e] man" : material memories of violence in Sullivan's Campaign / Zara Anishanslin --
Environmental history and the War of Independence : saltpeter and the Continental Army's shortage of gunpowder / David C. Hsiung --
The problem of order and the transfer of slave property in the Revolutionary South / Matthew Spooner --
The United States and the transformation of transatlantic migration during the age of revolution and emancipation / Aaron Spencer Fogleman --
First partition : the troubled origins of the Mason-Dixon line / Edward G. Gray --
The power to be reborn / David S. Shields --
Beyond the rebirth of the Revolution : coming to terms with coming of age / Michael Zuckerman.

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