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The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence

byLauren Duval

Lauren Duval retells the American Revolution from inside households in six British-occupied cities, where war crossed thresholds and unsettled everyday authority. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, she follows women, children, servants, enslaved people, and officers as they negotiated quartering, violence, labor, loyalty, and escape. Duval shows how occupation created dangerous but meaningful opportunities for some people while destabilizing established hierarchies. The book ultimately explains how the trauma of domestic disorder helped recast the private home as a powerful symbol of the new nation.

Publisher

Omohundro Institute and UNC Press

Publication date

2025-12-16

Format

Hardcover

Pages

456

ISBN

9781469690056