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Bezig met laden... A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (1976)door John Shy
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fascinating collection of essays about the Revolutionary War that were all written during or just after the Vietnam War. Thus the questions are very interesting. Could the British have won American "hearts and minds"? (Probably not.) Could the Revolution have been averted if the British had been more sympathetic to the Americans. (The British were probably as sympathetic as they were going to be.) The final essay, about the American military experience from colonial days to Vietnam, is thought-provoking and still applicable, I think, post-Iraq. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Americans like to think of themselves as a peaceful and peace-loving people, and in remembering their own revolutionary past, American historians have long tended to focus on colonial origins and Constitutional aftermath, neglecting the fact that the American Revolution was a long, hard war. In this book, John Shy shifts the focus to the Revolutionary War and explores the ways in which the experience of that war was entangled with both the causes and the consequences of the Revolution itself. This is not a traditional military chronicle of battles and campaigns, but a series of essays that recapture the social, political, and even intellectual dimensions of the military effort that had created an American nation by 1783. Book jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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