MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011024921
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008 110616s2011 paua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781611460834 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aPencak, William,$d1951-2013.
245 10 $aContested commonwealths :$bessays in American history /$cWilliam A. Pencak.
260 $aBethlehem, [Pa.] :$bLehigh University Press ;$aLanham, Md. :$bRowman & Littlefield,$cc2011.
300 $axiii, 368 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783.
651 0 $aMassachusetts$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 $aMassachusetts$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783.
651 0 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 $aBoston (Mass.)$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783.
830 0 $aStudies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.