A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783

In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace at large faced the Revolution and its implications. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.

Author: Charles Royster
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C
Published: 09/09/1996
Pages: 502
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780807846063

About the Author
Royster, Charles: - Charles Royster, Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times, Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution and The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, which received the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Award in Southern History.