TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pencak,William
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Contested commonwealths: essays in American history 
T2  - Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
AV  - E195 .P46 2011eb
U1  - 973.2 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Bethlehem, Pa., Lanham, Md.
PB  - Lehigh University Press, Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Boston (Mass.)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -