Contested Commonwealths : Essays in American History.
United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts-the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others discu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; PartI. COMMUNITIES; Ch01. The Knowles Riot and the Crisis of the 1740s in Massachusetts; Ch02. Metropolitan Boston Before the American Revolution; Ch03. The Social Structure of Revolutionary Boston; Ch04. Play as Prelude to Revolution; Ch05. "The Fine Theoretic Government of Massachusetts is Prostrated to the Earth"; PartII. PEOPLE; Ch06. Politics and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Almanacs; Ch07. The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship; Ch08. John Adams and His Contemporaries; Ch09. The Extended Presidency of George Washington, 1775-1797.