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3 Studies that have investigated Revolutionary soldiers' motivations for fighting with the express purpose of incorporating a new social historical approach include, Gross, Robert A., The Minutemen and Their World (New York: Hill and Wang, 1976)Google Scholar ; and Neimeyer, Charles Patrick, America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army (New York: New York University Press, 1996)Google Scholar.

4 For an example of ‘new’ maritime history that focuses on maritime laborers' revolutionary participation, see Linebaugh, Peter and Rediker, Marcus, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000).Google Scholar

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10 This famous quote was taken from Thompson, E.P., The Making of the English Working Class (London: Gollancz, 1963), 13.Google Scholar