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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

Die amerkanische Revolution als Bürgerkrieg (The American Revolution as civil war). By Marion Breunig. (Münster: lit, 1998. x, 361 pp. Paper, DM 59.80, isbn 3-8258-3862-5.) In German.

Marion Breunig has presented American historians, as well as Germans, with an objective and able synthesis of the many threads of conflict in America during the 1770s and 1780s by treating them as a civil war. Of course, the thirteen British mainland colonies declared their independence and successfully established a confederation of states, the dominant view in the American heritage. The American Revolution was such a struggle, but, it was much more. It was also a civil war that grew out of discords between elements of the colonial populations that had parallels with groups in Great Britain. . . .

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