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The Home Front
Revolutionary Households, Military Occupations, and the Making of American Independence
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Lauren Duvall's The Home Front examines how British military occupations in American port cities reshaped everyday life during the Revolution by turning households into sites of negotiation and conflict.
Drawing on diaries, letters, and military records, Duvall shows how women, servants, and enslaved people navigated quartering, labor shifts, and opportunities for self-emancipation.
The book foregrounds urban experiences in cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, Charleston, and Savannah to reveal varied civilian responses to occupation.
Duvall argues that occupation made war intimately domestic and helped shape postwar ideas about property, family, and national belonging.
Her research connects military history with gender and social history to offer a fuller picture of how independence was experienced at home.
Drawing on diaries, letters, and military records, Duvall shows how women, servants, and enslaved people navigated quartering, labor shifts, and opportunities for self-emancipation.
The book foregrounds urban experiences in cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, Charleston, and Savannah to reveal varied civilian responses to occupation.
Duvall argues that occupation made war intimately domestic and helped shape postwar ideas about property, family, and national belonging.
Her research connects military history with gender and social history to offer a fuller picture of how independence was experienced at home.
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Lauren Duvall
437 Civilian Life in America's Occupied Cities
