Format:
1 online resource (278 pages)
ISBN:
9781611460841
Series Statement:
Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
Content:
United States historian William Pencak presents 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 and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular ideology in songs and almanacs, and the thought and behavior of George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and the loyalist Peter Oliver. Interpretive essays argue that colonial outage that their participation in the French and Indian War went unrecognized by the British led to the American Revolution; that revolutionary economic thought turned smuggling from a vice into the 'natural law' of free trade; and that focusing on the 'Civil War,' and the years 1861 to 1865, leads to a glorified conception of the national past that is better understood as shaped by 'An Era of Racial Violence' that extended from 1854 to at least 1877.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Communities -- Chapter 1: The Knowles Riot and the Crisis of the 1740s in Massachusetts -- Chapter 2: Metropolitan Boston Before the American Revolution -- Chapter 3: The Social Structure of Revolutionary Boston -- Chapter 4: Play as Prelude to Revolution -- Chapter 5: "The Fine Theoretic Government of Massachusetts is Prostrated to the Earth" -- Part II: People -- Chapter 6: Politics and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Almanacs -- Chapter 7: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship -- Chapter 8: John Adams and His Contemporaries -- Chapter 9: The Extended Presidency of George Washington, 1775-1797 -- Chapter 10: Peter Oliver (1713-1791) -- Part III: Ideas -- Chapter 11: From Racket to Natural Law -- Chapter 12: "The Great War for the Empire" Reconsidered as a Cause of the American Revolution -- Chapter 13: The Civil War Did Not Take Place -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781611460834
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781611460834
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=765277
