The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780190055622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Virginia DeJohn Anderson

Opis

Nathan Hale, the celebrated hero, and Moses Dunbar, an unknown loyalist executed for treason, died during the American Revolution for causes they regarded as honorable. The Martyr and the Traitor presents these men's stories for what they reveal about the Revolution's impact on ordinary lives and about the many factors involved in choosing sides in war.

Recenzje

Moving and important....Anderson places the lives of Hale and Dunbar in a comparative biographical framework, adding a new interpretative lens to show how the dissemination of patriot and loyalist ideologies exacerbated preexisting tensions in local relationships during the era of the American Revolution. The book demonstrates that, at a time when the notion of independence was not coherently or universally understood, those relationships were not destined to produce merely one allegiance."-Gideon Mailer, William and Mary Quarterly

O autorze

Virginia DeJohn Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, and American Journey: A History of the United States.