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" Contested commonwealths : "
William A. Pencak
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BL
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646457
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Pencak, William,1951-2013
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Contested commonwealths : : essays in American history /\ William A. Pencak
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Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
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xiii, 368 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9781611460834
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9781611460841
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1611460840
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40019924014
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: 9781992401402
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The Knowles Riot and the crisis of the 1740s in Massachusetts (with John Lax) -- Metropolitan Boston before the American Revolution : an urban interpretation of the imperial crisis (with Ralph J. Crandall) -- The social structure of revolutionary Boston : evidence from the Great Fire of 1760 -- Play as prelude to revolution : Boston, 1765-1776 -- "The fine theoretic government of Massachusetts is prostrated to the earth" : the response to Shays's Rebellion reconsidered -- Politics and ideology in eighteenth-century almanacs : Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard and Nathanael Ames, Sr.'s An astronomical diary -- The beginning of a beautiful friendship : Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, the dancing school, and a defense of the "meaner sort" -- John Adams and his contemporaries -- The extended presidency of George Washington (1775-1797) -- Peter Oliver (1713-1791), chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court -- From racket to natural law : the permutation of smuggling into free trade -- "The great war for the empire" reconsidered as a cause of the American Revolution -- The Civil War did not take place
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United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783
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Massachusetts, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Massachusetts, History, Revolution, 1775-1783
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Boston (Mass.), History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Boston (Mass.), History, Revolution, 1775-1783
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E195.P46 2011
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