Benjamin L Carp

Rebels Rising

Cities and the American Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Carp argues American urban colonists were among the first to unite as Americans. Looking at the physical environments of cities as political catalysts, he contends that what began as interaction and negotiation developed into wider political awareness and action. This groundbreaking work will contribute to scholarship on the American Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780195304022
• ISBN-10: 0195304020
• Artikelnr.: 22590979

Autorenporträt

Benjamin L. Carp is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Ch. 1: Port in a Storm
* Ch. 2: Orderly and Disorderly Mobilization in the Taverns of New York
City
* Ch. 3: "And Yet There is Room": The Religious Landscape of Newport
* Ch. 4: Changing our Habitation: The Revolutionary Movement in
Charleston's Domestic Spaces
* Ch. 5: Philadelphia Politics, In and Out of Doors, 1742-1776
* Epilogue: The Forgotten City