We see the American Revolution as a formative event, but it was also a shattering one for those who experienced it. For much of the eighteenth century, Maryland's Charles County, situated on the banks of the Potomac near Chesapeake Bay, enjoyed the prosperity born of its rich soil and thriving overseas trade in tobacco. Its social order, white planters at the top, enslaved blacks at the bottom, was stable. Its politics were local. This world was swept away by Independence and the war with Britain. Led by its accustomed elite, the county entered the maw of Revolution, fought battles local and distant, and emerged part of a nation, its society admitting greater degrees of freedom, but now a backwater, impoverished, depleted, its impulse gone. The Price of Nationhood reshapes the story of the American Revolution, bending the familiar contours imprinted by the New England revolutionary experience. At the same time, Jean Lee's narrative rewards us with history at the ground level, rich with the smells of the earth and sea in eighteenth-century coastal Maryland.

The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County

History

Lee, Jean B.

Americas

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"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." ―JournalofMilitaryHistory
"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

Norton

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