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The second volume focuses on the years of upheaval during the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789. It breaks new ground by surveying a wide range of internal conflicts in the thirteen colonies, the trauma of a bloody war and its consequences, as well as the continental, hemispheric, and global forces shaping warfare and politics in this era. Together, the essays expand our understanding of how various people navigated military occupation, community conflict, governmental paralysis, interpersonal relationships, institutional collapse, and the slipperiness of allegiances. Through sweeping interpretative essays and micro-history viewpoints, the volume highlights the interplay of class, race, and gender in a wartime context and how these dynamics played out and were influenced by broader geopolitical developments. The depths of division and grand possibilities are explored – and interrupt our long-standing notions of traditional linear narratives of nation-making in this era.

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Marjoleine Kars is a Senior Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (2003) and Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (2022). Her work has won numerous prizes, including the Cundill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Michael A. McDonnell is Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (2024) and The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (2012). He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH). Andrew M. Schocket is Professor of History and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia (2007) and Fighting over Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution (2015). He is co-director of the Magazine of Early American Datasets.

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