Umfang:
1 online resource (679 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118219966
Serie:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History Series v.90
Inhalt:
Intro -- A Companion to George Washington -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Youth of George Washington -- 2. The Unlikely Success of a Provincial Surveyor: George Washington Finds Fame in the American Frontier, 1749-1754 -- 3. Treating American Indians as 'Slaves', 'Dogs', and Unwanted Allies: George Washington, Edward Braddock, and the Influence of Ethnocentrism and Diplomatic Pragmatism in Ohio Valley Military Relations, 1753-1755 -- 4. A Provincial Goes to War: George Washington and the Virginia Regiment, August 1755-January 1759 -- 5. Entrepreneur -- 6. George Washington and His Family -- 7. Washington and Slavery -- 8. "What Manner of Man I Am": The Political Career of George Washington before the Revolution -- 9. George Washington and the Siege of Boston -- 10. George Washington at New York: The Campaign of 1776 -- 11. The Crossing: The Trenton and Princeton Campaign of 1776-1777 -- 12. George Washington and the Philadelphia Campaign 1777 -- 13. Washington at Valley Forge -- 14. The Politics of Battle: Washington, the Army, and the Monmouth Campaign -- 15. "The most unlimited Confidence in his Wisdom & -- Judgement": Washington as Commander in Chief in the First Years of the French Alliance -- 16. Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781 -- 17. "High Time For Peace": George Washington and the Close of the American Revolution -- 18. George Washington's Navy -- 19. Washington's Irregulars -- 20. George Washington Spymaster -- 21. Administrator in Chief -- 22. George Washington: America's First Soldier -- 23. Revolution and Peace -- 24. George Washington and the Constitution -- 25. George Washington and Republican Government: The Political Thought of George Washington.
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Sprache:
Englisch
