Scars of Independence, America's Violent Birth

Category: History: U.S.: 18th Century

Publishing Information: 2017 by Crown

ISBN: 0804137286

Binding: hardcover

Description: In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back ì into the story of the Revolution. American Patriots persecuted ì and tortured Loyalists. British troops massacred enemy soldiers ì and raped colonial women. Prisoners were starved on ì disease-ridden ships and in subterranean cells. African-Americans ì fighting for or against independence suffered disproportionately, ì and Washington's army waged a genocidal campaign against the ì Iroquois. In vivid, authoritative prose, Hoock's new reckoning ì also examines the moral dilemmas posed by this all-pervasive ì violence, as the British found themselves torn between unlimited ì war and restraint toward fellow subjects, while the Patriots ì documented war crimes in an ingenious effort to unify the ì fledgling nation.

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