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Book Review
| British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775–1783: The Role of the "Middling-Level" Activists. By Sheldon S. Cohen. (Suffolk, Eng.: Boydell, 2004. xvi, 181 pp. $75.00, ISBN 1-84383-011-6.)
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| That many British supporters of the American Revolution came from the "middling sort" is now well attested to in the historical literature. Hence Sheldon S. Cohen overstates his claim to originality in uncovering the pro-American role of "middling-level" activists. But he has certainly enriched our understanding of their motives through his detailed examination of the careers of five such men. What is lost in breadth in his account is made up for in biographical depth. |
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