Occupied America : British military rule and the experience of revolution

Occupied America : British military rule and the experience of revolution

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

256 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

973.341 J66 2020

(OCoLC)1144490021

Chronicles the everyday lives of ordinary people living under British military occupation during the American Revolution. Focusing on port cities, Johnson recovers how Americans navigated dire hardships, balanced competing attempts to secure their loyalty, and in the end rejected restored royal rule.
Author was the Society of the Cincinnati's 2013 Tyree-Lamb Research fellow.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-244) and index.
Contents: Introduction. The experience of occupation -- Revolutionary occupations -- Collaborator regimes -- Within the lines -- Starving amid plenty -- Ambiguous allegiances -- Making peace -- Epilogue. Forgetting occupation.
L2020M90

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