Contested commonwealths essays in American history /

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Huvudskapare: Pencak, William, 1951-
Institutionell skapare: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Bethlehem, Pa. : Lanham, Md. : Lehigh University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
Serie:Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • The Knowles Riot and the crisis of the 1740s in Massachusetts (with John Lax)
  • Metropolitan Boston before the American Revolution : an urban interpretation of the imperial crisis (with Ralph J. Crandall)
  • The social structure of revolutionary Boston : evidence from the Great Fire of 1760
  • Play as prelude to revolution : Boston, 1765-1776
  • "The fine theoretic government of Massachusetts is prostrated to the earth" : the response to Shays's Rebellion reconsidered
  • Politics and ideology in eighteenth-century almanacs : Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard and Nathanael Ames, Sr.'s An astronomical diary
  • The beginning of a beautiful friendship : Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, the dancing school, and a defense of the "meaner sort"
  • John Adams and his contemporaries
  • The extended presidency of George Washington (1775-1797)
  • Peter Oliver (1713-1791), chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court
  • From racket to natural law : the permutation of smuggling into free trade
  • "The great war for the empire" reconsidered as a cause of the American Revolution
  • The Civil War did not take place.