Contested commonwealths essays in American history / [electronic resource] :
William A. Pencak.
- Bethlehem, Pa. : Lanham, Md. : Lehigh University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
- xiii, 368 p. : ill., ports.
- Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world .
- Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Massachusetts--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.