The politics of war: race, class, and conflict in revolutionary Virginia

Acknowledgments

List of Maps

Abbreviations and Short Titles

Introduction

Part I. The Ebullition of Patriotism

1. Mustering Patriotism: The Problem of Popular Mobilization, 1774-1775

2. Those Who Aim at Too Much: The Revolution Begins

3. Checking Wild Irregular Sallies: Patriot Leaders Reassert Control

Part II. Movements for Independence

4. Plebeian Infamy: The Minutemen and Their World

5. The Burning of Norfolk: Patriot Leaders Become Reluctant Revolutionaries

6. The Spirit of Levelling: Movements for Independence, January-May 1776

7. Revolutionary Settlement: Creating a New Government

Part III. The Limits of Allegiance

8. Fit for Common Service? Mobilization Problems, 1776-1777

9. The Politics of Lower-Class Draft Resistance, 1777-1778

10. Paralysis and Division, 1778-1780

Part IV. Revolution of Fools and Knaves

11. Revolutionary Demands: War Comes to the South

12. Asserting Fundamental Rights: Militia Service and Resistance, 1781

13. Defeat

Toward the New Republic: The Revolutionary Legacy of the War for Independence

Index