The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 by M

Description: The City-State of Boston by Mark Peterson A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of Americas founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of Americas founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired cliches, The City-State of Boston highlights Bostons overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Bostons development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britains Stuart monarchs and how-through its bargain with the slave trade and ratification of the Constitution-it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States.Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar figures alongside well-known ones, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Bostons origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britains empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, "Bostoners" aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Bostons regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-states vision of a common good for all.Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of Americas history. Author Biography Mark Peterson is the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England. Review "Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Prize, New England Historical Association""[A] richly detailed history." * New Yorker *"An original and provocative take. . . . [The City State of Boston is] ambitious, fluid and worldly."---Alex Beam, Wall Street Journal"Peterson leads us through [Bostons] Enlightenment ideals and how they clashed with the citys links to the American Souths slave-driven economy. A meaty, methodical exploration of a crucial American founding stronghold." * Kirkus *"An immense, fresh history of the city upon a hill conceives of the place as an independent city-state that was absorbed into the new country that arose around it. Bostons current moment—at once privileged and peculiar—suggests the value of considering its distinctive past in light of powerful, imaginative scholarship, in the deft hands of the author, now at Yale." * Harvard Magazine *"Remarkable. . . . [A] fresh and original interpretation of colonial New England [and] engagement with what are, in the end, fundamentally moral questions. The City-State of Boston is an engaging blend of small change and big ideas."---John Turner, Patheos"The most detailed and entertaining history of Boston thats been written so far."---Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor"The City State of Boston is a is an ambitious work based on prodigious research. It provides a richly detailed narrative and includes an enormous cast of characters, some of whom will be familiar to readers, though many will not."---Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Times Literary Supplement"Mark Petersons long-awaited The City-State of Boston presents a breath-taking thesis: Bostons history from its first English settlement through the American Civil War ought to be understood as the rise and fall of an independent city-state. . . . Petersons description of the Constitution of the United States is startling."---Mark Valeri, William and Mary Quarterly"The City-State of Boston will be a landmark in the literature. . . . [Its a] powerful and compelling story."---John L. Brooke, Journal of the Early Republic Review Quote "The most detailed and entertaining history of Boston thats been written so far." ---Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor Details ISBN0691179999 Author Mark Peterson Publisher Princeton University Press Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 0691179999 ISBN-13 9780691179995 Format Hardcover Imprint Princeton University Press Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States Translated from English Publication Date 2019-04-23 DEWEY 974.46102 Pages 784 Short Title The City-State of Boston UK Release Date 2019-04-23 NZ Release Date 2019-04-23 US Release Date 2019-04-23 Illustrations 29 color + 40 b/w illus. 17 maps. 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