| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War. By Wayne E. Lee. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. xvi, 380 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2095-6.)

The subtitle to Wayne E. Lee's book indicates his primary goal—he wants to describe the culture of violence in revolutionary-era North Carolina. His work fuses together subjects that have traditionally been studied separately: riots and military engagements. Lee's intent is not to describe the basic events of any of the violent encounters mentioned in the book (the Enfield riots, the Sugar Creek "war," the Stamp Act revolts, the Regulator movement, and the Revolutionary War) since those events have already found their Boswells. Rather, Lee places the actions of North Carolinians who participated in those activities within a framework of shared cultural meanings that stretched back to Europe and were bracketed by conventional forms of protest or warfare. Lee's key insight is that, even while rioting or war making, persons clung strongly to specific behaviors that were rooted in the need to appear legitimate. Violent individuals usually remembered their audiences.

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