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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hinderaker, Eric
Titre(s) : Boston's massacre [Texte imprimé] / Eric Hinderaker
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-358 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front
of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence
and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the
most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric
Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts
of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at
the time, and the long campaign afterward to transform the tragedy into a touchstone
of American identity. When Parliament stationed two thousand British troops in Boston
beginning in 1768, resentment spread rapidly among the populace. Steeped in traditions
of self-government and famous for their Yankee independence, Bostonians were primed
to resist the imposition. Living up to their reputation as Britain's most intransigent
North American community, they refused compromise and increasingly interpreted their
conflict with Britain as a matter of principle. Relations between Britain and the
North American colonies deteriorated precipitously after the shooting at the Custom
House, and it soon became the catalyzing incident that placed Boston in the vanguard
of the Patriot movement. Fundamental uncertainties about the night's events cannot
be resolved. But the larger significance of the Boston Massacre extends from the era
of the American Revolution to our own time, when the use of violence in policing crowd
behavior has once again become a pressing public issue.
Sujet(s) : Boston, Massacre de (1770)
États-Unis -- 1775-1783 (Révolution) -- Origines
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.27 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1763-1775
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674048331. - ISBN 0674048334 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45538414c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45538414
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A war of words ; Town and crown ; Smugglers and mobs ; Imperial spaces ; Settling
in ; Provocations ; Uncertain outcomes ; Four trials ; Contested meanings ; A
usable past.
