Click here for NICC Library Webpage
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
ID Information
Calmar New Materials
Peosta New Materials
Advanced
Alphabetical
Basic
History
Search:
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
ISBN/ISSN Exact Match
ISBN/ISSN Browse
Serial Title Browse
Title Alphabetical
Subject Alphabetical
Author Alphabetical
Alphabetical Series
Barcode
Bib No.
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Series Keyword
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Northeast Iowa Community College
Item Information
Holdings
More by this author
Hoock, Holger, author.
Subjects
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Violence -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
National characteristics, American
Civilization
National characteristics, American
Violence
HISTORY -- Revolutionary.
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Civilization
National characteristics, American
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865
United States
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865
Browse Catalog
by author:
Hoock, Holger, author.
by title:
Scars of independenc...
MARC Display
Scars of independence : America's violent birth / Holger Hoock.
by
Hoock, Holger, author.
New York : Crown, [2017]
Description:
xiv, 559 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction -- Tory Hunting -- Britain's Dilemma -- Rubicon -- Plundering Protectors -- Violated Bodies -- Slaughterhouses -- Black Holes -- Skiver Them! -- Town-Destroyer -- Americanizing the War -- Man for Man -- Returning Losers -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this ... account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war--one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand"--Amazon.com.
"The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war--one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand. In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution. American Patriots persecuted and tortured Loyalists. British troops massacred enemy soldiers and raped colonial women. Prisoners were starved on disease-ridden ships and in subterranean cells. African-Americans fighting for or against independence suffered disproportionately, and Washington's army waged a genocidal campaign against the Iroquois. In vivid, authoritative prose, Hoock's new reckoning also examines the moral dilemmas posed by this all-pervasive violence, as the British found themselves torn between unlimited war and restraint toward fellow subjects, while the Patriots documented war crimes in an ingenious effort to unify the fledgling nation. For two centuries we have whitewashed this history of the Revolution. Scars of Independence forces a more honest appraisal, revealing the inherent tensions between moral purpose and violent tendencies in America's past. In so doing, it offers a new origins story that is both relevant and necessary--an important reminder that forging a nation is rarely bloodless."--Jacket.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Calmar Campus Library
Circulation Stacks (Calmar)
973.31 Hoo
2017
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Peosta Library
Circulation Stacks
973.31 Hoo
2017
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9807
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.