Don Higginbotham, The War of American Independence, 1st Ed.

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Don Higginbotham’s The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789, is an important contribution to the Macmillan Company’s classic series The Macmillan Wars of the United States.

Higginbothan traces the military history of the Colonials during the era of the Revolution, 1763-1789; as such he gives an examination of military policy and attitudes toward war rather than an exercise in battles and campaigns.

By expanding the traditional dates of the Revolutionary War Higginbotham brings the influence of the Seven Years War into the era of the Revolution, seeing it was a rehearsal for the later conflict. In this view armies are a projection of society and warfare produced significant effects upon both the civil and military institutions of the new country.

Dust jacket clipped and frayed at the extremities; else strong and in very good condition.

Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. 1st edition, 509p., illustrations, maps.