War, patriotism and identity in revolutionary North America

War, patriotism and identity in revolutionary North America

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press, 2020.

248 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

973.3 C455 2020

(OCoLC)1130767973

" ... The Continental Army emerged as the first embodiment of this national consciousness, and Jonathan 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 continental patriotism's ideas and rituals which most ordinary Americans absorbed and which would shape both the national idealism and the contours of federalism in the early United States"--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-238) and index.
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