| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Ed. by John Resch and Walter Sargent. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. viii, 318 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-366-1. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-87580-614-3.)

According to the editors John Resch and Walter Sargent, their inspiration in commissioning the eleven essays in this volume, including John Shy's overview introduction, arose from Shy's highly influential collection A People Numerous and Armed (1976), which called on historians "to integrate the military history of the American Revolution into the social history of the American colonies" (p. vii). As such, the essays in War and Society in the American Revolution are reflective of questions being raised by "new" military historians conducting research on the American Revolution. Three related themes—motivation, mobilization, and the war's impact on the home front—provide overall organizational coherency, with each essay representing a case study of a region or an identifiable population group (African Americans, Native Americans, and white women).

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