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

by Mark Peterson

Book Overview

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 States

In the vaunted annals of America's 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 clich s, The City-State of Boston...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691179999
• ISBN13: 9780691179995
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.4"