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A People's Army documents the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the diaries and other writings of the common soldier. The provincials' own accounts of their experiences in the campaign amplify statistical profiles that define the men, both as civilians and as soldiers. These writings reveal in intimate detail their misadventures, the drudgery of soldiering, the imminence of death, and the providential world view that helped reconcile them to their condition and to the war.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-xiv
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  1. Contents
  2. p. xiii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. p. xv
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  1. List of Tables
  2. p. xvii
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  1. Part I: The Contexts of War
  1. I. War and the Bay Colony: An Overview
  2. pp. 3-25
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  1. 2. "Sons of Some of the Best Yeomen in New England": Army and Society in Provincial Massachusetts
  2. pp. 26-62
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  1. Part II: The Experience of War
  1. 3. "Hard Service and Poor Keeping": Everyday Life in the Provincial Army
  2. pp. 65-110
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  1. 4. "There Is No Spare Here of the Whip": Interactions between Provincial and Regular Troops
  2. pp. 111-141
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  1. 5. "As Mournful an Hour as Ever I Saw": Battle and Its Effects
  2. pp. 142-164
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  1. Part III: The Meaning of War
  1. 6. "A Principle So Strongly Imbibed": Contractual Principles and the Provincial Conception of Military Service
  2. pp. 167-195
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  1. 7. "Victory Undoubtedly Comes from the Lord": Providentialism and the New Englanders' Understanding of Warfare
  2. pp. 196-224
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  1. Appendix A. Tables: Massachusetts Provincial Forces during the Seven Years' War
  2. pp. 225-242
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  1. Appendix B. Diaries and Orderly Books
  2. pp. 243-250
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  1. Appendix C. Provincial Troop Disorders, 1755–1759
  2. pp. 251-253
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  1. Appendix D. Provincial Sermons, 1755–1762
  2. pp. 254-262
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 263-274
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