Arms at Rest

Introduction Part I: War, Peace, and American Culture and Society in the Revolutionary Era May all our Citizens be Soldiers, and all our Soldiers Citizens: The Ambiguities of Female Citizenship in the New Nation by Linda K. Kerber The Problem of Dependency After America Became Independent by David F. Musto Part II: Peace and Expansion Through Commerce, Cooperation, and Singular Initiative Trade as a Precursor of Diplomacy: The Beginnings of American Commercial Relations with the Pacific and Indian Ocean Areas, 1782-1815 by Harold D. Langley Winning the Peace: The New Diplomacy in a World of Change by James A. Field, Jr. Part III: The Varied Paths to Peace in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries United States Expansionism and the British North American Provinces, 1783-1871 by Reginald C. Stuart The Anglo-American Armies and Peace, 1783-1868 by Russell F. Weigley The Precarious Peace: China, the United States, and the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, 1954-1955, 1958 by Michael A. Lutzker Part IV: Peace Through the Obsolescence of War? The Evolution of Battle and the Prospects of Peace by John Keegan Bibliographic Essay Index About the Contributors

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