War, Patriotism and Identity in Revolutionary North America - 9781783274376

War, Patriotism and Identity in Revolutionary North AmericaAuthor(s): Jon Chandler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783274376, 978-1783274376\nSynopsis\nAn intriguing study of the revolutionary army as a powerful and yet contested symbol of nascent national identity among the American colonies.\n\nIn spite of various and growing discontents, the British inhabitants of the thirteen North American colonies continued to see themselves as an integral part of the British imperial project right up to the beginning of the AmericanRevolutionary War. By its end eight years later, a distinctive continental identity had developed, brought into being by the manifold stresses of internecine conflict.\n\nThe Continental Army emerged as the first embodiment of this national consciousness, and Jon Chandler's innovative study charts the various conflicting forces at work in this process. He shows how local and political a.