{"product_id":"robert-loves-warnings-9780812224047","title":"Robert Loves Warnings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Love's Warnings follows the walks of one otherwise obscure townclerk, Robert Love, as he warned itinerants and sojourners to depart the town in fourteen days. Love's meticulous records reveal the complex legal, social, and political landscape of New England in the decade before the Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The extent and depth of research found in Dayton and Salinger's book is impressive and the work itself engaging. . . . \u003ci\u003eRobert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful examination of the New England practice of warning and offers a rich social history of mid-eighteenth-century Boston.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Dayton and Salinger, two very distinguished historians, challenge much of the conventional scholarly understanding. . . . This marvelous book deepens and broadens historians' knowledge in significant ways. It is also beautifully written. It reshapes our conceptions and makes us ask new questions about Boston, New England, and early America in general. It is hard to ask much more of any book.\" * \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"My admiration for what the authors have done in \u003ci\u003eRobert Love's Warnings\u003c\/i\u003e grew with each chapter. They have made the streets of colonial Boston come alive in ways no other scholar has done. And their achievement in research is simply amazing. . . . What a book!\" * Alfred F. Young, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue. A Walking Day\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Mr. Love's Mission\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Warner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Origins\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Walking and Warning\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Warned and Why They Came\u003cbr\u003e Interlude. A Sojourner's Arrival\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Lodgings\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Sojourners of the Respectable Sort\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Travelers in Distress\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Warning in the Midst of Imperial Crises\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Traveling Parties and Locations They Were \"Last From\"\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Sources for Robert Love's Warning Records, by Date\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405705290071,"sku":"9780812224047","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812224047.jpg?v=1730493341","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/robert-loves-warnings-9780812224047","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}