| Boston Tea Party Contributor(s): Allison, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 193321211X ISBN-13: 9781933212111 Publisher: Commonwealth Editions OUR PRICE: $12.82 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2012 Annotation: On December 16, 1773, men dressed as Indians boarded three ships anchored in Boston Harbor. Working quickly and efficiently, they brought up from the holds 342 chests containing 92,586 pounds of tea, and dumped the contents overboard into Boston Harbor. In his concise narrative history of the event we now call The Boston Tea Party, Robert J. Allison demonstrates how this moonlit drama effectively led to the American Revolution sixteen months later. He begins by explaining the political and mercantile background of the event contemporaries referred to as "the destruction of the tea." (It was not called a "party" until years later, when it had ripened into a legend of American independence.) Boston was not the only seaboard city to which tea was shipped in that autumn of 1773. But for reasons that Allison clearly explains, Boston was the city that made the stand that led to the war that created the United States of America. The important players are all here-from King George and the Loyalist governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, to heroes of the Revolution like John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and his cousin John. And so is the city of Boston in the 1770s, itself a key player in this exciting narrative. Allison again shows his flair for giving us our American history clearly, succinctly, and dramatically. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) |
| Dewey: 973.311 |
| LCCN: 2007014930 |
| Series: New England Remembers |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6.34" W x 8.52" (0.27 lbs) 88 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Locality - Boston-Worcester, Mass. |
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| Publisher Description: A leading Boston historian continues his series on the American Revolution with the lead-up, the action, and the complex aftermath of what contemporaries called the destruction of the tea. |
Contributor Bio(s): Allison, Robert: - Robert J. Allison chairs Suffolk University's History Department, and also teaches at the Harvard Extension School. His works include: "Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies," The Teaching Company. Great Courses (2009), And free, on-line courses: The U.S. Constitution: A Biography (http: //www.udemy.com/us-constitution/). History of Boston (live in October 2014): (http: //www.historyofboston.org) He is president of the South Boston Historical Society, vice president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. |