Richard Archer

As If an Enemy's Country

The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lively and sympathetic history of pre-Revolutionary Boston under British occupation. ¿The New YorkerA thrilling and original work of history, As If an Enemy's Country tells the riveting story of what made the Boston townspeople, and with them other colonists, turn toward revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780199895779
• ISBN-10: 0199895775
• Artikelnr.: 34156999

Autorenporträt

Richard Archer is Professor of History Emeritus at Whittier College. He is the author of Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century .

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Editor's Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 GRENVILLE'S INNOVATION
Chapter 2 ON THE BRINK
Chapter 3 POWER AND THE OPPOSITION
Chapter 4 AN ACCOMMODATION OF SORTS
Chapter 5 THE TOWNSHEND BLUNDER
Chapter 6 A MOMENTOUS DECISION
Chapter 7 CAMPING ON THE COMMON
Chapter 8 OCCUPATION
Chapter 9 THE MERCHANTS AND JOHN MEIN
Chapter 10 PRELUDE TO A TRAGEDY
Chapter 11 THE MASSACRE ON KING STREET
Chapter 12 AFTERMATH
Conclusion A REVOLUTIONARY LEGACY
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index