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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Wayne Bodle (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780271025261ISBN 10: 0271025263 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 15 October 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock ![]() The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: The Myth and the Map 1. The Seat of War 2. The Campaign for Pennsylvania 3. Doing What We Can 4. Learning to Live With War 5. Starve, Dissolve, or Disperse 6. Trublesum Times for Us All, but Worse for the Solders 7. The Stone Which the Builders Have Rejected 8. The Lord’s Time to Work 9. The Chapter of Experiments 10. As the Fine Season Approaches 11. The Seated War Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAn excellent book by a scholar who has written extensively on the Middle Colonies and served for some years on the staff of the National Park Service at Valley Forge.... Bodle rescues Washington and his comrades-in-arms by looking at Valley Forge in the context of a nine-month campaign that began with British General Sir William Howe's invasion of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 and American reversals at Brandywine and Germantown.... As Wayne Bodie says, Valley Forge may offer fewer morality lessons for schoolchildren than previously believed, but it 'forged a temporal - and especially a spatial - template for the rest of the war in the north.' - Don Higginbotham, William and Mary Quarterly; [The Valley Forge Winter] is not a retelling of the quintessential American morality play of military virtue, stoicism, self-sacrifice, and eventual moral and battlefield triumph set against the backdrop of previous defeats and civilian neglect. Rather, it is a model study of war and society that argues convincingly for the Continental Army's service 'as a partial proxy for faltering civilian political legitimacy' in Revolutionary Pennsylvania.... This book is a welcome contribution that should be considered seriously by scholars and interested readers. - Ricardo A. Herrera, The Journal of Military History """An excellent book by a scholar who has written extensively on the Middle Colonies and served for some years on the staff of the National Park Service at Valley Forge.... Bodle rescues Washington and his comrades-in-arms by looking at Valley Forge in the context of a nine-month campaign that began with British General Sir William Howe's invasion of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 and American reversals at Brandywine and Germantown.... As Wayne Bodie says, Valley Forge may offer fewer morality lessons for schoolchildren than previously believed, but it 'forged a temporal - and especially a spatial - template for the rest of the war in the north.' "" - Don Higginbotham, William and Mary Quarterly; ""[The Valley Forge Winter] is not a retelling of the quintessential American morality play of military virtue, stoicism, self-sacrifice, and eventual moral and battlefield triumph set against the backdrop of previous defeats and civilian neglect. Rather, it is a model study of war and society that argues convincingly for the Continental Army's service 'as a partial proxy for faltering civilian political legitimacy' in Revolutionary Pennsylvania.... This book is a welcome contribution that should be considered seriously by scholars and interested readers."" - Ricardo A. Herrera, The Journal of Military History""" ""An excellent book by a scholar who has written extensively on the Middle Colonies and served for some years on the staff of the National Park Service at Valley Forge.... Bodle rescues Washington and his comrades-in-arms by looking at Valley Forge in the context of a nine-month campaign that began with British General Sir William Howe's invasion of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 and American reversals at Brandywine and Germantown.... As Wayne Bodie says, Valley Forge may offer fewer morality lessons for schoolchildren than previously believed, but it 'forged a temporal - and especially a spatial - template for the rest of the war in the north.' "" - Don Higginbotham, William and Mary Quarterly; ""[The Valley Forge Winter] is not a retelling of the quintessential American morality play of military virtue, stoicism, self-sacrifice, and eventual moral and battlefield triumph set against the backdrop of previous defeats and civilian neglect. Rather, it is a model study of war and society that argues convincingly for the Continental Army's service 'as a partial proxy for faltering civilian political legitimacy' in Revolutionary Pennsylvania.... This book is a welcome contribution that should be considered seriously by scholars and interested readers."" - Ricardo A. Herrera, The Journal of Military History"" Author InformationWayne Bodle is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Pennsylvania History, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The William and Mary Quarterly. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |