Contested commonwealths
Subtitle: essays in American history
By: William A. Pencak
Publisher: Lehigh University Press; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bethlehem, Pa; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781611460834; 9781611460841
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Knowles Riot and the crisis of the 1740s in Massachusetts (with John Lax); title: Metropolitan Boston before the American Revolution : an urban interpretation of the imperial crisis (with Ralph J. Crandall); title: The social structure of revolutionary Boston : evidence from the Great Fire of 1760; title: Play as prelude to revolution : Boston, 1765-1776; title: "The fine theoretic government of Massachusetts is prostrated to the earth" : the response to Shays's Rebellion reconsidered; title: Politics and ideology in eighteenth-century almanacs : Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard and Nathanael Ames, Sr.'s An astronomical diary; title: The beginning of a beautiful friendship : Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, the dancing school, and a defense of the "meaner sort"; title: John Adams and his contemporaries; title: The extended presidency of George Washington (1775-1797); title: Peter Oliver (1713-1791), chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court; title: From racket to natural law : the permutation of smuggling into free trade; title: "The great war for the empire" reconsidered as a cause of the American Revolution; title: The Civil War did not take place.