Name: A Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’S war (Warfare and Culture) (en Inglés)
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Author: Kyle F. Zelner
ISBN: 9780814797181

portada A Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’S war (Warfare and Culture) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

New York Univ Pr

Autor

Kyle F. Zelner

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

325

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0814797180

ISBN13

9780814797181

Categorías

Historia militar

A Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’S war (Warfare and Culture) (en Inglés)

Kyle F. Zelner (Autor) · New York Univ Pr · Tapa Dura

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While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip’s War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire’s most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip’s War marked the first time that Massachusetts had to mobilize mass numbers of ordinary, local men to fight. In this exhaustive social history and community study of Essex County, Massachusetts’s militia, Kyle F. Zelner boldly challenges traditional interpretations of who was called to serve during this period.Drawing on muster and pay lists as well as countless historical records, Zelner demonstrates that Essex County’s more upstanding citizens were often spared from impressments, while the “rabble” — criminals, drunkards, the poor— were forced to join active fighting units, with town militia committees selecting soldiers who would be least missed should they die in action. Enhanced by illustrations and maps, A Rabble in Arms shows that, despite heroic illusions of a universal military obligation, town fathers, to damaging effects, often placed local and personal interests above colonial military concerns.