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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: crisis of peace
    sub title: George Washington, the Newburgh conspiracy, and the fate of the American Revolution
  name:
    name part: Head, David
    name part: (Historian)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: On March 15, 1783, General George Washington addressed a group of angry officers in an effort to rescue the American Revolution from mutiny at the highest level. After the British surrender at Yorktown, the American Revolution still blazed on, and as peace was negotiated in Europe, grave problems surfaced at home. The government was broke, paying its debts with loans from France. Political rivalry among the states paralyzed Congress. The army's officers, encamped near Newburgh, New York, and restless without an enemy to fight, brooded over a civilian population seemingly indifferent to their sacrifices. The result was the Newburgh Affair, a mysterious event in which Continental Army officers, disgruntled by a lack of pay and pensions, may have collaborated with nationalist-minded politicians such as Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and Robert Morris to pressure Congress and the states to approve new taxes and strengthen the central government. Fearing what his men might do with their passions inflamed, Washington averted the crisis, but with the nation's problems persisting, the officers ultimately left the army disappointed, their low opinion of their civilian countrymen confirmed. A Crisis of Peace provides a fresh look at the end of the American Revolution while speaking to issues that concern us still, the fragility of civil-military relations, how even victorious wars end ambiguously and what veterans and civilians owe each other.
  table of contents: The road from Yorktown -- The insipid Campaign -- the officer's grievances, the financier's frustration -- the delegation to Philadelphia -- Rumors and gossip -- The anonymous letter -- General Washington in the Temple of Virtue -- Peace and pensions -- The army disbands.
  note: David Head.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Washington, George
      name part: 1732-1799
    topic: Military leadership
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Continental Army
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Continental Army
    topic: Officers
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Continental Congress
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Washington, George
      name part: 1732-1799
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Attempted coup, 1783
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
    topic: American forces
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 1783-1815
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1783-1789
  subject:
    topic: Federal-state controversies
  subject:
    topic: Military pensions
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Militarism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Civil-military relations
    geographic: United States
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: E255 .H433 2019
  classification: 973.316
  identifier: 1643130811
  identifier: 9781643130811
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180924
    record change date: 20200420143923.0
    record identifier: in00004098668