num_pages: 525
description: A masterly history of urban life in the Colonies that recreates, by a brilliant synthesis of contemporary documents, the authentic temper and spirit of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, and Charleston during the crucial years preceding the American Revolution. From civic archives, letters, contemporary books, periodicals, speeches, and tracts, from every imaginable source of record, Mr. Bridenbaugh has fashioned a vast and amazingly coherent portrait of early metropolitan America.
language: English
title: Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776
titlecomplete: Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776
genres: History
ratings_count: 8
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Gold)
publisher: Oxford Univ Pr