The Price of Nationhood

"A detailed portrait of colonial and revolutionary times that gradually becomes a convincing miniature." —Washington Post

"An insightful study of the transforming power of revolution and war.... Meticulously organized and lucidly written,... it is from first to last a model of narrative history." —Journal of Military History

"A vivid portrait of a country and a region at war, rich with detail of how the prologue to the war and the conduct of it changed the lives of everyone who lived within the country's borders—men, women, slaves, merchants, farmers, financiers." —Wall Street Journal

"The price of Nationhood offers us a richly textured portrait of a people struggling to preserve a familiar world even as they created a new one. It is local history as its best." —Journal of American History