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Drawing on extensive primary sources, including ward tax assessors' Taking Books, church records, census records, birth and marriage records, newspaper accounts, and town directories, Jacqueline Barbara Carr brings to life Boston's remarkable rebirth as a flourishing cosmopolitan city at the dawn of the nineteenth century. She examines this watershed period in the city's social and cultural history from the perspective of the town's ordinary men and women, both white and African American, recreating the determined community of laborers, artisans, tradesmen, mechanics, and seamen who demonstrated an incredible perseverance in reshaping their shattered town and lives. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2005. With a new foreword by Jonathan M. Chu.

Siege of Boston (Massachusetts : 1775-1776) --- American Revolution (1775-1783) --- 1700-1799 --- United States. --- Massachusetts --- United States --- Boston (Mass.) --- History --- Influence. --- Social conditions --- History of the Americas

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During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and articulated its own identity while selectively appropriating British culture and fashion. This revelatory book examines period dwellings, gravestones, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and silver, revealing through material culture how the inhabitants of Boston were colonial, provincial, metropolitan, and global, all at the same time. Edward S. Cooke, Jr.'s detailed account of materials and furnishing practices demonstrates that Bostonians actively filtered ideas and goods from a variety of sources, combined them with local materials and preferences, and constructed a distinct sense of local identity, a process of hybridization that, the author argues, exhibited a conscious desire to shape a culture as a means to resist a distant, dominant power.

Decorative arts --- Material culture --- Furniture --- Wood furniture --- Wooden furniture --- Decoration and ornament --- House furnishings --- Cabinetwork --- Interior decoration --- Upholstery --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Applied arts --- Art industries and trade --- Art --- Handicraft --- History --- Boston (Mass.) --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- furniture --- decorative arts [discipline] --- ceramics [object genre] --- cloth --- tomb slabs --- silverwork --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Boston [Massachusetts]