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The Price of Nationhood reshapes the story of the American Revolution, bending the familiar contours imprinted by the New England revolutionary experience. At the same time, Jean Lee's narrative rewards us with history at the ground level, rich with the smells of the earth and sea in eighteenth-century coastal Maryland.

The Price of Nationhood reshapes the story of the American Revolution, bending the familiar contours imprinted by the New England revolutionary experience. At the same time, Jean Lee's narrative rewards us with history at the ground level, rich with the smells of the earth and sea in eighteenth-century coastal Maryland.

"A detailed portrait of colonial and revolutionary times that gradually becomes a convincing miniature." -Washington Post "An insightful study of the transforming power of revolution and war.... Meticulously organized and lucidly written, ... it is from first to last a model of narrative history." -Journal of Military History