Contested commonwealths essays in American history /
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| Language: | English |
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Bethlehem, Pa. : Lanham, Md. :
Lehigh University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Series: | Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.