Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776

A masterly history of urban life in the Colonies that recreates, by a brilliant synthesis of contemporary documents, the authentic temper and spirit of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, and Charleston during the crucial years preceding the American Revolution. From civic archives, letters, contemporary books, periodicals, speeches, and tracts, from every imaginable source of record, Mr. Bridenbaugh has fashioned a vast and amazingly coherent portrait of early metropolitan America.