The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783

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Colonial Williamsburg, 2007 - History - 442 pages

Unsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby's masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions, in both men and material, that the state made to the new nation's war effort, Shelby shows how Virginia's leaders responded to the need to expand the state's administration and mobilize its people for war while at the same time looking westward to the vast territory beyond the Appalachians. Now available for the first time in paperback and with a new foreword by the historian Don Higginbotham, this classic is a must-read for anyone interested in the origins of our nation.

 

Contents

III
1
IV
7
V
23
VI
41
VII
55
VIII
80
IX
100
X
124
XIV
204
XV
227
XVI
245
XVII
265
XVIII
286
XIX
310
XXI
325
XXII
409

XI
138
XII
163
XIII
184

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About the author (2007)

John E. Selby, 1929-2001, served as William E. Pullen Professor of History and chair of the Department of History, and as graduate dean and acting dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at the College of William and Mary, in addition to being book review editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He was the author of A Chronology of Virginia and the War of Independence, 1763-1783, Dunmore, and, with Warren Billings and Thad Tate, Colonial Virginia: A History.