Author: Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Dorchester annexed to Boston, Jan. 3, 1870; Roxbury annexed to Boston, Jan. 5, 1868.
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: 1882, Boston records, 1700-1728
Author: Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Dorchester annexed to Boston, Jan. 3, 1870; Roxbury annexed to Boston, Jan. 5, 1868.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Dorchester annexed to Boston, Jan. 3, 1870; Roxbury annexed to Boston, Jan. 5, 1868.
Report of the Record Commissiners of the City of Boston, containing the Boston Records from 1700 to 1728
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338533666X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338533666X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). Registry Department
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Report of Record Commissioners
Author: Boston. Registry Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
As If an Enemy's Country
Author: Richard Archer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199745951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In the dramatic period leading to the American Revolution, no event did more to foment patriotic sentiment among colonists than the armed occupation of Boston by British soldiers. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town. Bringing colonial Boston to life, Archer moves between the governor's mansion and cobble-stoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists' conflict with Britain. He reveals the maneuvering of colonial political leaders such as Governor Francis Bernard, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, and James Otis Jr. as they responded to London's new policies, and he evokes the outrage many Bostonians felt toward Parliament and its local representatives. Equally important, Archer captures the popular mobilization under the leadership of John Hancock and Samuel Adams that met the oppressive imperial measures--most notably the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act--with demonstrations, Liberty Trees, violence, and non-importation agreements. When the British government responded with the decision to garrison Boston with troops, it was a deeply felt affront to the local population. Almost immediately, tempers flared and violent conflicts broke out. Archer's tale culminates in the swirling tragedy of the Boston Massacre and its aftermath, including the trial of the British troops involved--and sets the stage for what was to follow.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199745951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In the dramatic period leading to the American Revolution, no event did more to foment patriotic sentiment among colonists than the armed occupation of Boston by British soldiers. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town. Bringing colonial Boston to life, Archer moves between the governor's mansion and cobble-stoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists' conflict with Britain. He reveals the maneuvering of colonial political leaders such as Governor Francis Bernard, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, and James Otis Jr. as they responded to London's new policies, and he evokes the outrage many Bostonians felt toward Parliament and its local representatives. Equally important, Archer captures the popular mobilization under the leadership of John Hancock and Samuel Adams that met the oppressive imperial measures--most notably the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act--with demonstrations, Liberty Trees, violence, and non-importation agreements. When the British government responded with the decision to garrison Boston with troops, it was a deeply felt affront to the local population. Almost immediately, tempers flared and violent conflicts broke out. Archer's tale culminates in the swirling tragedy of the Boston Massacre and its aftermath, including the trial of the British troops involved--and sets the stage for what was to follow.
Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). City Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
The Rise of the Representative
Author: Peverill Squire
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Uncovers the roots of the American political system: the development of colonial representative assemblies
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Uncovers the roots of the American political system: the development of colonial representative assemblies
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Conversing by Signs
Author: Robert Blair St. George
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor. These forms of cultural representation--architecture and gravestones, metaphysical poetry and sermons, popular religion and labor politics--are connected through what St. George calls a 'poetics of implication.' Words, objects, and actions, referentially interdependent, demonstrate the continued resilience and power of seventeenth-century popular culture throughout the eighteenth century. Illuminating their interconnectedness, St. George calls into question the actual impact of the so-called Enlightenment, suggesting just how long a shadow the colonial climate of fear and inner instability cast over the warm glow of the early national period.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor. These forms of cultural representation--architecture and gravestones, metaphysical poetry and sermons, popular religion and labor politics--are connected through what St. George calls a 'poetics of implication.' Words, objects, and actions, referentially interdependent, demonstrate the continued resilience and power of seventeenth-century popular culture throughout the eighteenth century. Illuminating their interconnectedness, St. George calls into question the actual impact of the so-called Enlightenment, suggesting just how long a shadow the colonial climate of fear and inner instability cast over the warm glow of the early national period.
A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description