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	George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army, Harry M. Ward, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 2006. A well-disciplined army was vital to win American independence, but policing soldiers during the Revolution presented challenges. This volume explores the influences that shaped army practice and the quality of the soldiery, the enforcement of military justice, the use of guards as military police, and the application of punishment.
	Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution, John A. Nagy, Westholme Publishing, Fall 2007. Mutiny has always been a threat to the integrity of armies, particularly under trying circumstances, and since Concord and Lexington, mutiny had been the Continental Army's constant traveling companion. It was the scarcity of food, money, clothing, and proper shelter that forced soldiers to desert or to organize resistance.
	Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution, Charles Rappleye, Simon & Schuster, 2007. Rappleye provides an incisive study of John and Moses Brown, two of four brothers from the Providence banking, import/export and slave-trading family. John spent his life as an unrepentant participant in the business of America's "peculiar institution." But Moses—following the American Revolution, during which all the Browns took up the cause of liberty—discovered Quakerism and abolitionism. He thereafter stood opposed to the business interests of his brother and the balance of his family. The tale of the Browns provides unique insight into the festering wound of slavery as manifested, with hard-edged and profitable heartlessness, during the colonial and postcolonial eras. (From Publishers Weekly)
	Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois, Glenn F. Williams, Westholme, 2005. With the entry of France on the American side, the War for Independence moved from a regional conflict to a global war. To offset this new alliance, Britain devised a bold new strategy. Turning its attention to the colonial frontiers, especially those of western New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, Britain enlisted its Provincial Rangers, Tories, and allied Indian warriors, principally from the Iroquois Confederacy, to wage a brutal backwoods war in an attempt to cut the colonies in half, divert the Continental Army, and weaken its presence around British-occupied New York City and Philadelphia. Moving quickly, British forces under the direction of Colonel John Butler and the charismatic Mohawk leader, Joseph Brant, unleashed a terror campaign, but following massacres at the well-established colonial settlements of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and Cherry Valley, New York, the Continental Congress persuaded General George Washington to conduct a decisive offensive to end the threat once and for all. Brewing since 1777, the "Year of the Hangman," the conflict between the Iroquois and colonists would now reach its deadly climax in 1779 with punitive expeditions into Indian country led by Major General John Sullivan and Colonel Daniel Brodhead.
	The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America, John Fea, Penn Press, 2008. The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more—to improve himself in a revolutionary world that was making upward mobility possible. While Fithian is best known for the diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at Nomini Hall, the Virginia plantation of Robert Carter, this first full biography moves beyond his experience in the Old Dominion to examine his inner life, his experience in the early American backcountry, his love affair with Elizabeth Beatty, and his role as a Revolutionary War chaplain.