LEADER 04240nam 2200433 450 001 9910794256203321 005 20230807202437.0 010 $a1-59416-604-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011458414 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6176580 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011458414 100 $a20201011e20152013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBoston and the dawn of American independence /$fBrian Deming 210 1$aYardley, Pennsylvania :$cWestholme,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (x, 508 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a1-59416-175-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 475-492) and index. 327 $aLet Loose His Wrath -- Favorable Signs -- Small Spark -- Two Young Eagles -- Most Essential Rights -- A Farthing -- Rage of Devils -- Joyful Day -- Tail of a Rattle Snake -- Ripe for Riot -- Gloom and Uneasiness -- Impudent, Virulent, and Seditious Lies -- Weakness of Government -- Blood of the Righteous Abel -- Fire and Be Damned -- Hang the Dog! -- Stubborn Things -- Every Step but One -- Blackhearted Fellows -- Reproached and Reviled -- Firm, Intrepid, and Inflexible -- Doctrine of Devils -- When the Wicked Beareth Rule -- Sharpest Thorn -- Eagerness and Spirit -- Unclean Birds -- World Turned Upside Down -- Bells a Ringing -- For God's Sake Fire -- Our All at Stake -- Nothing Remarkable -- Breast Works -- Suburbs of Hell -- Amen. 330 $aIn 1760, no one could imagine the American colonies revolting against Great Britain. The colonists were not hungry peasants groaning under the whip of a brute. They lived well. Land was cheap, wages were good, opportunities abounded. While many colonists had been in the New World for generations, they identified with Britain, and England was still "home." Yet in the space of just fifteen years these sturdy bonds snapped. Boston, a town of just 16,000, lit the fire for American Independence. Here the author explains how and why in his deeply researched history. To dodge British taxes, Boston merchants for as long as anyone could remember had routinely smuggled in molasses from French and Spanish possessions in the Caribbean. Boston distillers transformed this sweet cargo into rum, the liquid gold traded around the world. But British authorities cracked down on smuggling and imposed the Sugar Act to help pay for the debts incurred during their wars against France. Then came the hated Stamp Act, a tax on documents, newspapers, and printed materials of all kinds. In courtrooms, in the press, and in the streets, Bostonians rallied in protest against taxation without representation. As anger swept America, Boston was at the center of the storm, which burst forth with the infamous massacre and the Boston Tea Party. By 1775, open warfare erupted at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. This history ties these scenes together with the people of the time, including John and Sam Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere, as well as Thomas Hutchinson, the beleaguered Massachusetts royal governor, and James Otis, the bombastic, unstable early patriot. Readers hear their voices, but also those of many amazing, colorful, and memorable personalities, feisty mob leaders, defiant Tories, terrified townspeople. The author illuminates this epic story with views of everyday life inside taverns, outside newspaper offices, and along the wharves, and the political dramas in London and Philadelphia that shaped the destiny of an empire and gave rise to the world's first modern democracy. -- From publisher's website. 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory$ySiege, 1775-1776 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory 676 $a974.02 700 $aDeming$b Brian$f1954-$01487527 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794256203321 996 $aBoston and the dawn of American independence$93707426 997 $aUNINA