Volume 32, Number 19 · December 5, 1985
Founding Sons
By T.H. Breen
A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
by Fred Anderson
University of North Carolina Press, 274 pp., $25.00
To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783
by E. Wayne Carp
University of North Carolina Press, 306 pp., $29.00
War has not been well served by American historians. We suffer no lack of biographies of military heroes or accounts of decisive battles, but historians have failed to connect this work—much of it technically impressive—to the larger issues that have traditionally concerned social, cultural, and intellectual historians. The deficiency is particularly glaring for the so-called long eighteenth century, a period running roughly from 1690 to 1815 when Americans were almost constantly engaged in wars against the Indians, the French, the British, and each other.[1]
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