1st Edition
The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry
Chapter one: The Southern Backcountry Before the American Revolution
Chapter two: Imperial Crisis in the South
Chapter three: Revolutionary War and the Challenge of Winning Hearts and Minds
Chapter four: The South’s first civil war: the fall of Charles Town and its aftermath
Chapter five: Kings Mountain: "first link in a chain"
Chapter six: The Battle of Cowpens: Victory for "The Flying Army"
Chapter seven: Denouement
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Biography
Melissa Walker is Professor of History at Converse College.
Kings Mountain and Cowpens exemplified the extent to which the American Revolution was a civil war that divided many communities. Melissa Walker presents a lucid narrative of these pivotal battles. Her superb selection of primary sources includes both dramatic eyewitness accounts and compelling vignettes of backcountry life.
Cynthia A. Kierner, author of A Perfect Temper: The Life and Times of Martha Jefferson Randolph
Routledge’s Critical Moments in American History series is designed to “give students a window into the historian’s craft through concise readable books…[that] bring together the best scholarship and engaging primary sources…” (p. viii). Melissa Walker’s The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens does exactly this in a user-friendly format that will attract undergraduates...Walker has written a book that demonstrates the complexity of the American Revolutionary War in the southern backcountry...[and those] who want a well-written synopsis of this
topic for use in a college classroom, should consider this book.Michael P. Gabriel, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
