Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America - Softcover

Carp, Benjamin L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300178123 ISBN 13: 9780300178128

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2011

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Winner of the 2010 Best Book on the Era of the American Revolution Award given by the American Revolution Round Table of New York Selected as a 2011 Must-Read book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book Winner of the 2013 Society of the Cincinnati Cox Book Prize. "Benjamin Carp has written the definitive book on the Boston Tea Party, the epic event that catapulted colonists and mother country toward a war that changed the world."-John Ferling, author of The Ascent of George Washington "In this vivid, dramatic and superbly researched book, Benjamin Carp provides fresh insights into important subjects that have long puzzled historians: the collective character of patriot leadership, the marathon meetings of the five thousand Bostonians who deliberated on a course of action and the men who actually did the heavy work of destroying the tea. Essential reading for anyone who takes the American Revolution seriously."-Alfred F. Young, author of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution

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An evocative and enthralling account of a defining event in American history This thrilling book tells the full story of the an iconic episode in American history, the Boston Tea Party-exploding myths, exploring the unique city life of eighteenth-century Boston, and setting this audacious prelude to the American Revolution in a global context for the first time. Bringing vividly to life the diverse array of people and places that the Tea Party brought together-from Chinese tea-pickers to English businessmen, Native American tribes, sugar plantation slaves, and Boston's ladies of leisure-Benjamin L. Carp illuminates how a determined group of New Englanders shook the foundations of the British Empire, and what this has meant for Americans since. As he reveals many little-known historical facts and considers the Tea Party's uncertain legacy, he presents a compelling and expansive history of an iconic event in America's tempestuous past.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0300178123
• ISBN 13: 9780300178128
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328