The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution, Abridged Edition

by Gary B. Nash

Book Overview

The Urban Crucible 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--Gary 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674930592
• ISBN13: 9780674930599
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"