{"product_id":"the-citystate-of-boston-9780691179995","title":"The CityState of Boston","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Prize, New England Historical Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] richly detailed history.\" * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\"An original and provocative take. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe City State of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e is] ambitious, fluid and worldly.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alex Beam, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peterson leads us through [Boston’s] Enlightenment ideals and how they clashed with the city's links to the American South's slave-driven economy. A meaty, methodical exploration of a crucial American founding stronghold.\" * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003e\"An immense, fresh history of the ‘city upon a hill’ conceives of the place as an independent city-state that was absorbed into the new country that arose around it. Boston’s current moment—at once privileged and peculiar—suggests the value of considering its distinctive past in light of powerful, imaginative scholarship, in the deft hands of the author, now at Yale.\" * Harvard Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable. . . . [A] fresh and original interpretation of colonial New England [and] engagement with what are, in the end, fundamentally moral questions. \u003ci\u003eThe City-State of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging blend of small change and big ideas.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Turner, \u003ci\u003ePatheos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most detailed and entertaining history of Boston that’s been written so far.\"\u003cb\u003e---Steve Donoghue, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe City State of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e is a is an ambitious work based on prodigious research. It provides a richly detailed narrative and includes an enormous cast of characters, some of whom will be familiar to readers, though many will not.\"\u003cb\u003e---Virginia DeJohn Anderson, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Peterson’s long-awaited \u003ci\u003eThe City-State of Boston \u003c\/i\u003epresents a breath-taking thesis: Boston’s history from its first English settlement through the American Civil War ought to be understood as the rise and fall of an independent city-state. . . . Peterson’s description of the Constitution of the United States is startling.\"\u003cb\u003e---Mark Valeri, \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe City-State of Boston \u003c\/i\u003ewill be a landmark in the literature. . . . [It’s a] powerful and compelling story.\"\u003cb\u003e---John L. Brooke, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403855667543,"sku":"9780691179995","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691179995.jpg?v=1730484729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-citystate-of-boston-9780691179995","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}