| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

The British Isles and the War of American Independence. By Stephen Conway. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii, 407 pp. $90.00, ISBN 0-19-820659-3.)

Stephen Conway, who has written extensively on the American Revolution, now turns his attention to the impact of the American conflict on Britain itself. His volume complements nicely Piers Mackesy's magisterial The War for America, 1775–1783 (1964), which focuses on Britain's war-making machinery in London and on how the ministry and the commanders in America used those instruments at home and applied them to the contest for the colonies. In contrast, Conway is concerned exclusively with the impact of the war on the British home front. He examines mobilization, economic factors, society, unity and divisions, parliamentary reform, and religion. After applying the telescope, he turns to the microscope, arguing that most of his major conclusions, seen collectively, are usually confirmed by looking at the war's implications in six widely diverse localities—one in Scotland, one in Ireland, and four in England. . . .

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