Bibliograph

The Minutemen and their world, Robert A. Gross

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Label

The Minutemen and their world, Robert A. Gross

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-236) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Minutemen and their world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1993277

Responsibility statement

Robert A. Gross

Series statement

American century series

Summary

Through intensive study of family genealogies, diaries, tax lists, and other public records, Robert A. Gross has re-created the daily pattern of pre-Revolutionary life: how individual farmers, artisans, and merchants earned a living, raised their family, and carried on their politics in a New England country town before the coming of war. Gross traces the growing intrusion of the Revolutionary crisis into the affairs of the town and shows how local conflicts shaped responses to British policy. The narrative carries through to the beginning of mobilization and then follows individual Minutemen from the first battle through the succeeding war to their postwar careers

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Winter soldiers and springtime farmers -- "Do not be divided for so small matters" -- The reluctant revolutionaries -- A well-ordered revolution -- A world of scarcity -- "The regulars are coming out" -- "This bleeding land" -- A bridge to the future

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