The City-State of Boston: The Rise & Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
MHS Event
At MHS
Mark Peterson, Yale University
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary 
“city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, Mark Peterson highlights Boston’s overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a path-breaking and brilliant new history of early America.
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