LEADER 03821nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910960142603321 005 20240126170758.0 010 $a1-61146-612-1 010 $a1-283-24633-3 010 $a9786613246332 010 $a1-61146-084-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000045721 035 $a(EBL)765277 035 $a(OCoLC)753480146 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535398 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12179043 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535398 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523509 035 $a(PQKB)11005226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL765277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496300 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL324633 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC765277 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000045721 100 $a20110616d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContested commonwealths $eessays in American history /$fWilliam A. Pencak 210 $aBethlehem, Pa. $cLehigh University Press ;$aLanham, Md. $cRowman & Littlefield Pub. Group$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (383 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-61146-083-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Knowles Riot and the crisis of the 1740s in Massachusetts (with John Lax) -- Metropolitan Boston before the American Revolution : an urban interpretation of the imperial crisis (with Ralph J. Crandall) -- The social structure of revolutionary Boston : evidence from the Great Fire of 1760 -- Play as prelude to revolution : Boston, 1765-1776 -- "The fine theoretic government of Massachusetts is prostrated to the earth" : the response to Shays's Rebellion reconsidered -- Politics and ideology in eighteenth-century almanacs : Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard and Nathanael Ames, Sr.'s An astronomical diary -- The beginning of a beautiful friendship : Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, the dancing school, and a defense of the "meaner sort" -- John Adams and his contemporaries -- The extended presidency of George Washington (1775-1797) -- Peter Oliver (1713-1791), chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court -- From racket to natural law : the permutation of smuggling into free trade -- "The great war for the empire" reconsidered as a cause of the American Revolution -- The Civil War did not take place. 330 $aUnited States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts - the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760's and 1770's, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular ideology in songs and almanacs, and the thought and behavior of George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and the loyalist Peter Oliver. Interpretive essays argue that colonial outage that their participation in the French and Indian War went unrecognized by the British led to the America 410 0$aStudies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world. 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 607 $aMassachusetts$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aMassachusetts$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 676 $a973.2 700 $aPencak$b William$f1951-$01815079 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960142603321 996 $aContested commonwealths$94454057 997 $aUNINA