The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 - Tapa blanda

Peterson, Mark

 
9780691209173: The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
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ISBN 10: 0691209170 ISBN 13: 9780691209173
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 2020

Sinopsis

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 States

In 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 this revered metropolis from these misleading, tired clichés, 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. The City-State of Boston peels away layers of myth to offer a startlingly fresh understanding of this iconic urban center.

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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.

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691209170
ISBN 13 
9780691209173
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Número de páginas
780
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Princeton University Press
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