Contested commonwealths : essays in American history William A. Pencak

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pencak, William, 1951-

Series:

Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Boston (Mass.).

Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Physical Description:

xiii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611460834 (cloth : alk. paper)

1611460832 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

724674324