Defiance of the patriots : the Boston Tea Party & the making of America / Benjamin L. Carp.
Carp, Benjamin L.
2010
E215.7 .C37 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Defiance of the patriots : the Boston Tea Party & the making of America / Benjamin L. Carp.
Author Carp, Benjamin L.
ISBN 9780300117059
0300117051
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xv, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number E215.7 .C37 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.3/115
Summary From the Publisher: On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. It set the stage for war and cemented certain values in the American psyche that many still cherish today. But why did the Tea Party happen? Whom did it involve? What did it mean? The answers to these questions are far from straightforward. In this thrilling new book, Benjamin L. Carp tells the full story of the Tea Party-exploding myths, exploring the unique city life of Boston, and setting this extraordinary event in a global context for the first time. Bringing vividly to life the diverse array of people and places that the Tea Party brought together-from Chinese tea-pickers to English businessmen, Native American tribes, sugar plantation slaves, and Boston's ladies of leisure-Carp illuminates how a determined group shook the foundations of a mighty empire, and what this has meant for Americans since. As he reveals many little-known historical facts and considers the Tea Party's uncertain legacy, he presents a compelling and expansive history of an iconic event in America's tempestuous past.
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Introduction : Teapot in a tempest
The empire's corporation
The ringleader of all violence
Tea and scandal
Enemies to their country
The detestable tea arrives
The destroyers at Griffin's Wharf
Resolute men (dressed as Mohawks)
Boycotting the accursed leaf
Boston bears the blame
Sugar, slaves, and the shadow of the Tea Party
Secrecy and legacy.

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