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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
Paperback
Colonial Period (1600-1775)Regional: New EnglandRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Publisher Price: $26.95
ISBN13: 9780691209173
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Oct 6 2020
Pages: 784
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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 clichés, 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.
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