Crowds and soldiers in revolutionary North Carolina:the culture of violence in riot and war
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University Press of Florida,
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Publisher Address: | Gainesville |
Publication Dates: | c2001. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Southern dissent |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 380 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: | 0813020956 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | D771 |
CLC: |
D771.25 K712.9 |
Call Number: | K712.9/L482 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-370) and index. "Riotous disorderly persons" -- "To fight the air": the careful riots of the regulators -- The road to Alamance -- Colonial ways of war: tradition and development -- "A fair fight": the revolutionary militias and the struggle for virtue, 1775-1776 -- Civil consolidation: The "peaceful" years, 1777-1779 -- "The law of retaliation": the war of the militias, 1780-1782. |