Eric Hinderaker is Professor of History at the University of Utah.
Eric Hinderaker widens our understanding of the Boston Massacre and
the origins of the American Revolution. By setting this stirring
event in the context of New England's involvement in Britain's
colonial wars, and by depicting the occupying British army as a
social force of considerable power, this elegant book gives us a
far richer account of how military occupation pushed Boston into
rebellion.--Mark A. Peterson, author of The Price of Redemption:
The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England
In Boston's Massacre, Eric Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the
creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing
episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid
writing, Hinderaker shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street
became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created
a nation.--Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A
Continental History, 1750-1804
Seldom does the book appear that compels its readers both to
rethink a signal event in American history and reexamine powerful
assumptions about historical knowledge itself. It's even rarer for
an author to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling
clarity and grace. But this is such a book, and Eric Hinderaker
just such an author: Boston's Massacre is a gem.--Fred Anderson,
author of Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of
Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Hinderaker illuminates the events of March 5, 1770, from a host of
unexpected angles, from its military origins and the possibility of
an additional shooter, to the Kent State comparison that thrust
itself upon the nation two hundred years later.--Woody Holton,
author of Abigail Adams
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