The City-State of Boston
The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9627684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noam Maggor (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 631-636 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007680520000641 |
| OpenAlex | W3109027587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Mark Peterson's The City-State of Boston is a formidable work of history—prodigiously researched, lucidly written, immense in scope, and yet scrupulously detailed. A meticulous history of New England over more than two centuries, the book argues that Boston and its hinterland emerged as a city-state, a “self-governing republic” that was committed first and foremost to its own regional autonomy (p. 6). Rather than as a British colonial outpost or the birthplace of the American Revolution—the site of a nationalist struggle for independence—the book recovers Boston's long-lost tradition as a “polity in its own right,” a fervently independent hub of Atlantic trade whose true identity placed it in tension with the overtures of both the British Empire and, later, the American nation-state (p. 631)
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| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |