City-State of Boston (eBook)
784 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18548-4 (ISBN)
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.
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 "e;city upon a hill"e; and the "e;cradle of liberty"e; for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired cliches, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston's overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston's development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain's Stuart monarchs and how-through its bargain with the slave trade and ratification of the Constitution-it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States.Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar figures alongside well-known ones, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston's origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain's empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, "e;Bostoners"e; aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston's regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state's vision of a common good for all.Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America's history.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.5.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Princeton |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Schlagworte | abolitionism • Acadians • Ancient Greece • Articles of Confederation • atlantic slave trade • Atlantic World • Battles of Lexington and Concord • Bay of Fundy • Boston • Boston Brahmin • Boston Common • Boston Harbor • British America • British Empire • Career • city-state • Colonial history of the United States • Colonization • colony • Commodity • Connecticut River • Constitution • continental congress • Cotton Mather • Currency • despotism • Dominion of New England • England • Faneuil Hall • George Bancroft • George Ticknor • Governor of Massachusetts • Haitian Revolution • Harrison Gray Otis (politician) • Hartford Convention • Harvard College • hegemony • Hinterland • His Family • huguenot • increase mather • Intolerable Acts • israelites • John Winthrop • Jonathan Belcher • King Philip's War • laborer • land grant • Legislation • Legislature • Massachusetts • Massachusetts Bay • massachusetts bay colony • Massachusetts Charter • Massachusetts General Court • Massachusetts Government Act • Massachusetts State House • Moral Economy • Navigation Acts • New England • New England Colonies • New England Confederation • New France • New Netherland • North America • Pamphlet • Paul Revere • phillis wheatley • pietism • plymouth colony • Political Economy • Politician • Politics • Protestantism • Puritans • ratification • Refugee • Republicanism • resistance movement • Samuel Sewall • Shawmut Peninsula • Siege of Boston • Silver coin • Slavery • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • Tax • The Republic of Letters • Thomas Handasyd Perkins • Thomas Hutchinson (governor) • Treaty • United States constitution • Wampum • war • warfare • Wealth • West Indian • William Lloyd Garrison • William Shirley • Writing |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-18548-4 / 0691185484 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-18548-4 / 9780691185484 |
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