Richard Archer
Auteur de As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
A propos de l'auteur
Richard Archer is Professor of History Emeritus at Whittier College. He is the author of Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century and As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (OUP, 2010).
Œuvres de Richard Archer
As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (2009) 164 exemplaires
Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Revisiting New England) (2001) 15 exemplaires
The Island Home: The Adventures of Six Young Crusoes 5 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1941-11-22
- Sexe
- male
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 201
- Popularité
- #109,507
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 14
This 2012 reprint of the author's 2010 work only gets "timelier", as the current Tea Party is revealed as a false front for moneyed monopolist interests seeking to avoid regulations and taxes. The historian documents the fact that wealthy smugglers pretending to be "merchants" in Boston were clearly instigating the riots and assemblies around the "Liberty Tree". Rich smugglers like John Hancock were targeting the homes of the governors and the civic structures where they worked, for pillage and plunder. Archer's focus is in the period from 1768 to 1770, just before the 1773 Tea Party event itself.
At the time, George Washington and Ben Franklin were themselves declared Revolutionaries, with their own lives on the line. Yet they decried 1773 the Tea Party sponsored attack "as an act of violent Injustice on our part". Only rich plutocratic smugglers would think to paint their employees with Indian war paints and feathers -- to cast blame upon the Native people for their own criminal work!… (plus d'informations)