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This work is the most authoritative and wide-ranging encyclopedia on the American Revolution ever created for a student audience. Students cannot begin to understand the history and culture of the United States without understanding the combination of events, ideas, and people that led to its extraordinary and unlikely birth. This work is an authoritative resource for taking students beyond the idealized images and tales of those times to explore just how revolutionary the American Revolution was. "American Revolutionary War: A Student Encyclopedia" offers the latest scholarship on all aspects of the war in a well-focused, richly illustrated format designed specifically for students. Ranging from the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1789, it provides essential information for understanding the drive to independence, the day-to-day course of the war, and the nation that emerged from it. With over 800 entries and essays and a separate documents volume, "American Revolutionary War" covers every battle and campaign, every political debate and diplomatic encounter.It also introduces students to the broad spectrum of American culture at the time (day-to-day life, art, music) as well as everyone caught up in the war (men and women; soldiers and civilians; patriots and loyalists; the British, French, and American militaries; German mercenaries; Native Americans; and African Americans both free and slave). When it comes to depicting the captivating drama and truly revolutionary nature of America's birth, no other student resource can match it. |