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“Better becoming a band of robbers”
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“Better becoming a band of robbers”
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army, society, and ideology in America’s first wartime state
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Elliott
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Steven
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Steven Elliott
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Gautham
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Gautham Rao
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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This thesis investigates how the American state conducted the War of American Independence. Primarily, I look at how, in the absence of a strong centralized national government, American military leaders used alternative methods to support their army. I argue that the Continental Army constituted a source of national authority and sovereignty which effectively maintained the military struggle even as the Continental Congress abdicated responsibility for directing the war effort. Moreover, I demonstrate that the strains of waging a protracted war with little support from the national government had adverse effects on America’s social cohesion. Overall, this thesis serves to complicate both military historians’ conceptions of the War of American Independence as well as political and social historians’ understandings of republican political culture and American society during the revolutionary era. More broadly, I hope to show that the War of American Independence is integral to the understanding of the wider forces at work during the American Revolution.
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iii, 60 p.
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M.A.
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by Steven Elliott
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United States--Politics and government--1775-1783
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United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
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United States--Civilization
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United States--Social life and customs--1775-1783
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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