Harry Ward is William Binford Vest Professor of History, University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of The American Revolution: Nationhood Achieved 1763 - 1788, St.Martins Press, 1995 (CHOICE Outstanding Book of the Year) and The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society, University of London Press/Routledge,1999 as well as ''Going Down Hill'': Legacies of the American Revolutionary War, Academica Press 2009.