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Caregiving, Crisis and Coercion in the American Revolutionary War

Roberts, MegUniversity of Cambridge2024

This dissertation uses the health crisis of the American Revolutionary War to interrogate the coercive labour dynamics underpinning care work in early America. It examines the Continental Army’s efforts to utilise existing coercive labour regimes (including enslavement, indentured servitude and …

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Remembering the revolution: monuments and commemorations of American Revolutionary war sites in New York

Venables, Brant W2021

… at military heritage sites track the ways American society constructs and then reconstructs its understandings of important events. They present enticing material culture for study by archaeologists seeking to analyze the layers of meaning and the social and chronological transformations in …

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How revolutionary was the American Revolutionary War?: An examination and analysis of two schools of thought and the causes and political impetus behind the American Revolution

Decker, James R.

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Awards and public perception: exploring the relationship between the evolution of American military awards and the changing American public

Danielbrigg, AnthonyKansas State University2024

The use of awards by the United States military is a tradition dating back to the American Revolutionary War. Since their inception, awards have been either adapted or created to suit the needs of the military of the time. Common among these needs are attempts to influence the American people’s …

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'Wanton and torturing punishments' : patterns of discipline and punishment in the Royal Navy, 1783-1815

Dacam, John H.University of Hull2009

… Navy during the period between the end of the American Revolutionary War and the defeat of Napoleon had a record of success that was second to none, but it has long been held that this reputation was secured at the expense of its crews, who were forced to endure atrocious conditions and brutal …

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John Johns Trigg, Congressman

Beck, Ronald ParisVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University1972

… Bedford County, Virginia, was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. As a Captain, he fought and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis' army at Yorktown. From his days as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1784-1792, and of the Virginia Convention of 1788, Trigg consistently …

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Unanimous Voice, Unanimous Symbol: George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

Hitechew, Matthew Joseph2007

<p>George Washington's role in the American Revolution has not been lost in the mists of time, but most modern Americans have lost touch with his actual character and style because of the immense cultural changes that have transpired since the eighteenth century. However, by examining the duties of …

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