ordinary folks had a lot to do with it…

 

 

Book review:

The Urban Crucible:

Social Change, Political Consciousness,

and the Origins of the American Revolution

 

by Gary B. Nash

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979

 

The Urban Crucible is a densely researched and fully explored comparative history of the economic, social, and political environments in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Here’s my hint: there was more well-informed “mob” action than you have read about in other histories.

The early colonial experiences in the three principal seaport towns are vividly contrasted and authoritatively explained. Nash candidly digs deep and deeper into a wide range of primary sources. The sins and the heroics of the leadership elite and the “leather apron” artisans and the anonymous working poor are examined in profoundly realistic historical context.

You can’t read The Urban Crucible and not learn a lot.

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