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100 1 _aPencak, William,
_d1951-
245 1 0 _aContested commonwealths
_h[electronic resource] :
_bessays in American history /
_cWilliam A. Pencak.
260 _aBethlehem, Pa. :
_bLehigh University Press ;
_aLanham, Md. :
_bRowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
_c2011.
300 _axiii, 368 p. :
_bill., ports.
490 1 _aStudies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yRevolution, 1775-1783.
651 0 _aMassachusetts
_xHistory
_yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 _aMassachusetts
_xHistory
_yRevolution, 1775-1783.
651 0 _aBoston (Mass.)
_xHistory
_yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 _aBoston (Mass.)
_xHistory
_yRevolution, 1775-1783.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aStudies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10496300
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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