The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution (1986)

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Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 0674930592

Condition: Acceptable

The cover and many of the pages are wrinkled. There is underlining throughout the text.

Content Description:

This book boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Through a century-long history of three seaport towns—Boston, New York, and Philadelphia—Nash discovers subtle changes in social and political awareness and describes the coming of the revolution through popular collective action and challenges to rule by custom, law, and divine will. A reordering of political power required a new consciousness to challenge the model of social relations inherited from the past and defended by higher classes. - from the back cover