Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with
full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of
the American Revolutionary War.
The American Revolution, or the American War of Independence, has been
characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American
colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the
inflexible British military establishment. In this book, Daniel Marston
argues that this belief, though widespread, is a misconception. He
contends that the American Revolution, in reality, created deep
political divisions in the population of the Thirteen Colonies, while
militarily pitting veterans of the Seven Years' War against one another,
in a conflict that combined guerrilla tactics and classic 18th-century
campaign techniques on both sides. The peace treaty of 1783 that brought
an end to the war marked the formal beginning of the United States of
America as an independent political entity.
With revisions from the author and 50 new images, this illustrated
overview of the American Revolution provides an important reference
resource for the academic or student reader as well as those with a
general interest in the period.