War, Patriotism and Identity in Revolutionary North America

An intriguing study of the revolutionary army as a powerful and yet contested symbol of nascent national identity among the American colonies. In spite of various and growing discontents, the British inhabitants of the thirteen North American colonies continued to see themselves as an integral part of the British imperial project right up to the beginning of the AmericanRevolutionary War. By its end eight years later, a distinctive continental identity had developed, brought into being by the ma