Rebels Rising Cities and the American Revolution

Zusatztext What Carl Bridenbaugh's Cities in Revolt and Gary Nash's Urban Crucible were to their generations of historians! Benjamin Carp's fascinating study of the revolution in the five major colonial cities is to the present time. Informationen zum Autor Benjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Associate Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. In addition to several articles and public appearances, he has written two previous books: Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2010), which won the triennial Society of the Cincinnati Cox Book Prize in 2013; and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (2007). Klappentext A reassessment of the role of the colonial cities in the coming of the American Revolution. Zusammenfassung A reassessment of the role of the colonial cities in the coming of the American Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Political Mobilization in the Urban Landscape 1: Port in a Storm: The Boston Waterfront as Contested Space, 1747-74 2: Orderly and Disorderly Mobilization in the Taverns of New York City 3: "And Yet There is Room": The Religious Landscape of Newport 4: Changing our Habitation: The Revolutionary Movement in Charleston's Domestic Spaces 5: Philadelphia Politics, In and Out of Doors, 1742-76 Epilogue: The Forgotten City

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• Authors: Benjamin Carp, Benjamin L Carp, Benjamin L. Carp, Benjamin L. (Assistant Professor of History Carp, Carp Benjamin L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2009
• EAN: 9780195378559
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537855-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, C 1700 To C 1800, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions