Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Scribner, Vaughn
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Scribner, Vaughn

Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America

The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy....
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Author: Vaughn Scribner
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Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Scribner, Vaughn

Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America

$90.88
Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Scribner, Vaughn

Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America

$90.88
Author: Vaughn Scribner
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under alien skies, such a progressive picture, as Vaughn Scribner reveals, could not have been further from the truth. In Under Alien Skies , Scribner illustrates how foreign soldiers' negative perceptions of the American environment merged with harsh wartime realities to elicit considerable physical, mental, and emotional anguish.

Whether trudging through alligator-infested swamps, nursing a comrade back to health in a rain-sodden tent, or digging trenches in a burned-out port city, most who fought in America under the British army's flag ultimately deemed themselves strangers fighting in a strange land. For them, Revolutionary America looked nothing like the "happy land . . . blessed with every climate" that Revolutionary republicans so successfully promoted. Instead, the War of Independence descended into a quagmire of anxiety, destruction, and distress at the hands of the American environment--a "Diabolical Country," as one British soldier opined, "which no Earthly Compensation can put me in Charity with."

Author: Vaughn Scribner
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781469680774
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