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Article: Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2006
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Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758-1775. By Michael N. McConnell. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2004. Pp. xx, 211. $49.95, ISBN 0-8032-3233-0.)
In Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 17581775, Michael N. McConnell contends that British soldiers who occupied the North American West between the end of the Seven Years' War and the outbreak of the American Revolution created a distinctive society and culture, shaped by the work routines that supported forts in peacetime and shared important characteristics with rural civilian communities. To make ...