TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCurdy,John Gilbert
TI  - Quarters: the accommodation of the British Army and the coming of the American Revolution 
SN  - 9781501736605
AV  - UC 403 M478q 2019
U1  - 973.3/113 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Army
KW  - Barracks and quarters
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Gran Bretaña.
KW  - Ejército.
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XVIII
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitution
KW  - 3rd Amendment
KW  - Soldados
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Militares
KW  - Periodo colonial  1600-1775
KW  - Revolución, 1775-1783
KW  - Historia militar
KW  - Periodo colonial, 1607-1775
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-301) and index; Introduction : the importance of place in the age of Atlantic revolutions -- Houses : the rise of domestic privacy -- Barracks : constructing a colonial military infrastructure -- Empire : drafting and implementing the Quartering Act -- Borderland : Native Americans, soldiers, and colonists in the backcountry -- Cities and towns : accommodation and eviction of the British Army -- Nation : American armies and the march toward independence -- Epilogue : the Third Amendment and the shadow of quartering
N2  - "Examines both quartering British soldiers in America and how this led to the American Revolution and how debates that ensued shaped Americans' notions of military power and place. A transnational history that includes Canada and the Caribbean"--
ER  -