Synopses & Reviews
"A vivid portrait of a country and a region at war, rich with detail of how the prologue to the war and the conduct of it changed the lives of everyone who lived within the country's borders--men, women, slaves, merchants, farmers, financiers." --
Wall Street Journal"The price of Nationhood offers us a richly textured portrait of a people struggling to preserve a familiar world even as they created a new one. It is local history as its best." --Journal of American History
Synopsis
"A detailed portrait of colonial and revolutionary times that gradually becomes a convincing miniature." --
Washington Post"An insightful study of the transforming power of revolution and war.... Meticulously organized and lucidly written,... it is from first to last a model of narrative history." --Journal of Military History