The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social and Military History

Hot on the heels of Scribner's two‐volume revision of the The Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (Selesky, 2006) (RR 2007/156) comes this five‐volume heavyweight from ABC‐Clio. Subtitled: A Political, Social, and Military History, this latest encyclopedia, on what I still think of as The American War of Independence, is a large format work of four volumes containing the A‐Z encyclopedia entries, plus a fifth volume consisting of documents.

The quantity of material here is impressive. There are over 1,000 entries contained in these four volumes (or more than 900 if you read the Preface, the “over a...