A Respectable Army

The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789

James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781118923887
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9781118923900
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

A fully revised and updated third edition of the most established and innovative historical analysis of the Continental Army and its role in the formation of the new republic.

• Written by two experts in the field of early U.S. history
• Includes fully updated coverage of the military, political, social, and cultural history of the Revolution
• Features maps, illustrations, a Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography, and a fully revamped Bibliographical Essay
• Fully established as an essential resource for courses ranging from A.P. U.S. history to graduate seminars on the American Revolution

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Epigraph
• 1 Of Lexington and Concord, and the Myths of the War, 1763–1775
• 2 The Republican War, 1775–1776
• 3 Toward an American Standing Army, 1776–1777
• 4 On and Off the Road of Despair, 1777–1779
• 5 Moral Defeat and Military Turnabout, 1779–1781
• 6 Of War, National Legitimacy, and the Republican Order, 1781–1789
• A Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography
• Index
• End User License Agreement