The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630?1865 (eng)

Peterson, Mark

ISBN 10: 0691209170 / ISBN 13: 9780691209173

Edité par Princeton University Press, 2020

N° de réf. du vendeur edbdacb7545becee04235de83e715993

Synopsis :

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting this revered metropolis from these misleading, tired cliches, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston's overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston's development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain's Stuart monarchs and how-through its bargain with the slave trade and ratification of the Constitution-it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States. The City-State of Boston peels away layers of myth to offer a startlingly fresh understanding of this iconic urban center. Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Prize, New England Historical Association

À propos de l?auteur: Mark Peterson is the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England.

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Titre : The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall ...
Éditeur : Princeton University Press
Date d'édition : 2020
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : new