City-State of Boston - The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 16301865

About the author

Mark Peterson is the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England.

Summary

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 StatesIn 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

Foreword

A revisionist history of Boston and its three-hundred-year development as city- state that created the region of New England, framing this history not as subset of United States history, but instead placing Boston within the larger (and less anachronistic) context of being one of many European colonies in the shifting Atlantic world of the early modern period.

Additional text

"The City-State of Boston will be a landmark in the literature. . . . [It’s a] powerful and compelling story."---John L. Brooke, Journal of the Early Republic

Product details

• Authors: Mark Peterson
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2019
• EAN: 9780691179995
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17999-5
• No. of pages: 784
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Boston, Massachusetts, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions