Boston’s Massacre / / Eric Hinderaker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Hinderaker, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 24 halftones, 5 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps and Illustrations --; Introduction --; 1. A War of Words --; 2. Town and Crown --; 3. Smugglers and Mobs --; 4. Imperial Spaces --; 5. Settling In --; 6. Provocations --; 7. Uncertain Outcomes --; 8. Four Trials --; 9. Contested Meanings --; 10. A Usable Past --; Appendix. Eyewitness Accounts --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674979116; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674979116
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eric Hinderaker.

The event known as the Boston Massacre is among the most familiar in U.S. history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions, and the long campaign to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity.