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Chargement... As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolutionpar Richard Archer
  
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  keylawk | Aug 15, 2013 | 
 I thought this book would be about Boston occupied by British troops under siege of the Continental Army ca. 1775-1776. Instead it is set a few years earlier from 1768 to 1770 when British troops were first sent to police the unruly provincial capital.... Archer writes an engaging and informative history of a time and place I thought I knew already.  For historians of the Revolutionary era, this book offers an accurate but not especially innovative retelling of familiar events. For undergraduate and lay readers,... [it is] a well-paced narrative informed by sound archival research, illuminated by engaging anecdotes and biographical sketches, and attentive to bigger themes in American history.... Archer does not make a convincing case that the British occupation was the pivotal point on Boston's road to revolution. Archer succeeds in arguing that Boston's occupation in the years prior to the massacre fractured their British identity; but what is missing is a full examination of how citizens maintained that identity in the following years leading to independence.... [C]ontributes to the ongoing debate over the formation of American identity. His persuasive argument focuses on when and how Bostonians started to question their understanding of themselves as British and leads to his conclusion that, "the first American revolution was in Bostonians' sense of their identity" (228). Appartient à la sérieAppartient à la série éditoriale
In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. 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 deftly moves between the governor's mansion and cobblestoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists' conflict with Britain. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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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!