Boston's massacre /

On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hinderaker, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1770-1783
Boston Massacre, 1770.
Massacre de Boston, Boston, Mass., 1770.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
War > Causes
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes.
Boston (Mass.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Révolution) > Causes.
Boston (Mass.) > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Révolution)
Massachusetts > Boston
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A war of words
  • Town and crown
  • Smugglers and mobs
  • Imperial spaces
  • Settling in
  • Provocations
  • Uncertain outcomes
  • Four trials
  • Contested meanings
  • A usable past
  • Appendix. Eyewitness accounts.

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