ISBN10: 0292780400, ISBN13: 9780292780408, [publisher: University of Texas Press] Hardcover In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's "life and mind." In the process she has discovered more about the common soldier than anyone thought possible: his social origins and occupational background, his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumption that the army was made up largely of criminals and social misfits.Special attention is given to soldiering as an occupation. Focusing on two of the major campaigns of the war-the Northern Campaign which culminated at Saratoga and the Southern Campaign which ended at Yorktown-Frey describes the human face of war, with particular emphasis on the physical and psychic strains of campaigning in the eighteenth century.Perhaps the most important part of the work is the analysis of the moral and material factors which induced men to accept the high risks of soldiering. Frey rejects the traditional assumption that soldiers were motivated to fight exclusively by fear and force and argues instead that the primary motivation to battle was generated by regimental esprit, which in the eighteenth century substituted ...
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University of Texas Press, Date: 1981. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1981. University of Texas Press ISBN 0292780400 9780292780408 [US]

University of Texas Press, Date: 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth boards with title on spine. Text pages are crisp and clean. Very nice color illustrated dust jacket shows minor edge wear and soil. Looks very nice in protective mylar. 1981. University of Texas Press ISBN 0292780400 9780292780408 [US]

Good+ HC in Good+ DJ. Dark blue clothover boards, gilt letters. Bright, clean covers and spine; very slight bow to front cover; tightly bound; light foxing on text block edges and on end papers; clean interior. DJ is clean and complete; light foxing on back cover and fold-in flaps and very light on front cover. 8vo, 211 pp; index, biblio. Date: 1981. University of Texas Press ISBN 0292780400 9780292780408 [US]

Univ of Texas Pr, Date: 1981-07. Hardcover. Good. 1981. Univ of Texas Pr ISBN 0292780400 9780292780408 [US]