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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788862103321

Autore

Anderson Fred <1949->

Titolo

A people's army : Massachusetts soldiers and society in the Seven Years' War / / Fred Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1984

©1984

ISBN

979-88-908866-4-4

0-8078-3828-4

1-4696-0049-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

973.2/6

Soggetti

Soldiers - Massachusetts - History - 18th century

Massachusetts Militia History 18th century

Massachusetts History French and Indian War, 1754-1763

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [243]-250.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Part I: The Contexts of War; I. War and the Bay Colony: An Overview; 2. ""Sons of Some of the Best Yeomen in New England"": Army and Society in Provincial Massachusetts; Part II: The Experience of War; 3. ""Hard Service and Poor Keeping"": Everyday Life in the Provincial Army; 4. ""There Is No Spare Here of the Whip"": Interactions between Provincial and Regular Troops; 5. ""As Mournful an Hour as Ever I Saw"": Battle and Its Effects; Part III: The Meaning of War

6. ""A Principle So Strongly Imbibed"": Contractual Principles and the Provincial Conception of Military Service7. ""Victory Undoubtedly Comes from the Lord"": Providentialism and the New Englanders' Understanding of Warfare; Appendix A. Tables: Massachusetts Provincial Forces during the Seven Years' War; Appendix B. Diaries and Orderly Books; Appendix C. Provincial Troop Disorders, 1755-1759; Appendix D. Provincial Sermons, 1755-1762; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y