The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence

Author/Contributor(s):	Breen, T H
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	01/20/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause--the consumer boycott--capable of galvanizing resistance.