Contested commonwealths : essays in American history / / William A. Pencak.

• Superior document: Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Pencak, William, 1951-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
• Physical Description: xiii, 368 p. :; ill., ports.

Table of Contents

The 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.