num_pages: 452
description: In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace at large faced the Revolution and its implications. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.
language: English
title: A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
titlecomplete: A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
genres: American Revolution, History, American Revolutionary War, 18th Century, American History, The United States Of America, War, School, Military History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 142
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Silver), awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press