Quarters : : The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution / / John Gilbert McCurdy.
When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 20 b&w halftones, 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- A Note on Quotations, Terminology, and Money
- Introduction: The Importance of Place in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- 1. Houses: The Rise of Domestic Privacy
- 2. Barracks: Constructing a Colonial Military Infrastructure
- 3. Empire: Drafting and Implementing the Quartering Act
- 4. Borderland: Native Americans, Soldiers, and Colonists in the Backcountry
- 5. Cities and Towns: Accommodation and Eviction of the British Army
- 6. Nation: American Armies and the March toward Independence
- Epilogue: The Third Amendment and the Shadow of Quartering
- Notes
- Index