Public Program, Author Talk
The City-State of Boston: The Rise & Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
Mark Peterson, Yale University
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 6:00PM - 7:30PM
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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