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SUMMARY:Lecture: John McCurdy "Quarters"
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Fall 2019 Lecture Series sponsored by the Sons of the\nRevolution in the State of New Jersey\, John Gilbert McCurdy will speak\nabout his book “Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the\nComing of the American Revolution” on Thursday\, October 24 at 7 PM. Books\nwill be available for purchase in the Quartermaster’s Store Gift Shop. \nWhen Americans declared independence in 1776\, they cited King George III\n“for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” In Quarters\, John\nGilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the\ncharge\, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British\nsoldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the\nQuartering Act of 1765\, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of\nthe American Revolution. \nQuarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the\nmeaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of\naccommodating soldiers in one’s house became an unconstitutional act. In so\ndoing\, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans’ right\nto privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the\nlead up to independence\, asking how barracks changed cities and how\nattempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to\nimagine a new nation. \nQuarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced\nBritish soldiers in colonial houses\, demonstrates the effectiveness of the\nQuartering Act at generating revenue\, and examines aspects of the law long\nignored\, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping\nCanadian provinces. \nAbove all\, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops\noutlasted the Revolutionary War\, profoundly affecting American notions of\nplace. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications\,\ncodified in the Third Amendment\, for contemporary ideas of the home as a\nplace of domestic privacy\, the city as a place without troops\, and a nation\nwith a civilian-led military. \nThe full lecture schedule is:\nAll lectures begin at 7 PM and the Museum Shop opens at 6:30 PM\nTuesday\, October 15: David Price – The Road to Assunpink Creek\nThursday\, October 24: John Gilbert McCurdy – Quarters\nTuesday\, October 29: Hal Taylor – Before Penn\nMonday\, November 4: Kenneth Gossard – Thalers and Pence\nThursday\, November 14: Peter Stark – Young Washington\nThursday\, November 21: Joyce Malcolm – The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold
URL:https://tencrucialdays.org/event/lecture-john-mccurdy-quarters/
LOCATION:Old Barracks Museum\,101 Barrack St\, Trenton\, NJ 08608\, USA\, 2 Barrack St\, United States
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