Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic - Paperback
by John Resch
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Massachusetts PressISBN-13:9781558497887ISBN-10:1558497889UPC:9781558497887Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, United StatesBook Topic:Veterans, Colonial Period (1600-1775), State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCDRQ58FHX
Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic
This book examines how the moral sentiment of gratitude, as expressed in the image of the suffering soldier, transformed the memory of the Revolutionary War, political culture, and public policy in the early American republic. This popular depiction removed the stigma of vice and treason from the Continental Army, legitimized the army as a republican institution, and credited it with securing...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Massachusetts PressISBN-13:9781558497887ISBN-10:1558497889UPC:9781558497887Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, United StatesBook Topic:Veterans, Colonial Period (1600-1775), State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCDRQ58FHX
John P. Resch is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, Manchester.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
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