The Home Front by Lauren Duval
Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, British forces occupied every major city, invading the most private of spaces: the home. By closely considering the dynamics of the household —how people moved within it, thought about it, and wielded power over it— The Home Front reveals the ways in which occupation fundamentally upended the structures of colonial society and created opportunities for unprecedented economic and social mobility. In occupied cities, British officers usurped male authority to quarter themselves with families, patriot wives governed households in their husbands' absence, daughters flirted with officers, domestic servants disappeared with soldiers, and enslaved kin absconded to British lines in pursuit of freedom. As Lauren Duval shows, the unique conditions of occupation produced an aggrieved American population bound by shared emotional distress and domestic disorder. In the wake of this deeply disorienting experience, elite Americans deliberately reconsecrated the private home as a national symbol that epitomized masculine authority.Building on a stunning wealth of primary sources, Duval vividly captures daily life during the Revolution through the eyes and ears of those who intimately experienced it, showing how men and women of all races, statuses, and states of freedom understood its implications for their lives, families, and the nascent American Republic.
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The Adams-Jefferson Letters
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
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Notes on the State of Virginia
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
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A Colony of Citizens
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The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
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Moral Capital
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Captives and Cousins
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Sugar and Slaves
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Underwriters of the United States
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The Devil and Doctor Dwight
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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
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The Stamp Act Crisis
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Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
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Revolutionary Conceptions
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Daniel Morgan
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The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution
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Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland
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The Other Founders
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Thirteen Clocks
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The Ordeal of the Longhouse
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The Elusive Republic
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In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
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America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750
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Women Before the Bar
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A Revolutionary People at War
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Forced Founders
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The Road to Mobocracy
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Virginia 1619
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John Witherspoon’s American Revolution
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Freedom's Debt
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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
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The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744
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Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
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The Common Cause
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Standard-Bearers of Equality
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The Precisianist Strain
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A Harmony of the Spirits
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The American Revolution
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The Correspondence of John Cotton
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Allegories of EncounterColonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
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The Glorious Revolution in America
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Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Lauren Duval is assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781469690056 |
| ISBN 10 | 1469690055 |
| Title | The Home Front |
| Author | Lauren Duval |
| Series | Published By The Omohundro Institute Of Early American History And Culture And The University Of North Carolina Press |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2025-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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